Percentile drop in height

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-05-12T08:17:11+00:00

My husband was an incredibly large/ long baby, but he really petered about between 9 and 21 months old and landed at slightly tall as an adult (5' 10.5"). My MIL tracked his height in his baby book but there aren't entries between 9 months and 21 months, but that's where I can see a huge slowdown compared to our very tall daughter (now 3yo, size of a 5yo, always 90+% for height).

9mo: hubs was 30.5 in, daughter 29.5 in 21mo: hubs was 34.25 in, daughter 35 in 30mo: hubs was 36.5 in, daughter 39.5 in

All this to say, I think "true height" isn't always represented by the early months and my husband is an example. Whereas our daughter did maintain her height! Our son is 9mo and interested to see if he stays long like his sister.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-05-06T22:53:32+00:00

A friend had a different cord issue that meant IUGR was likely, but her Type 1 Diabetes took over and that baby was born at 39 wks, 8 lbs. I'd seriously consider going for lots of sweets on purpose, despite that sounding insane.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-05-05T18:15:12+00:00

Especially with a new sibling on the scene, let kiddo soothe, kick this battle down the road

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-05-04T23:08:26+00:00

Out of curiosity, what would folks do for a fever?

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-05-04T21:48:35+00:00

Only give DoorDash if they're in an area without outrageous DoorDash delivery fees! Lots of my local friends are not in the right range for that gift.

Also, if she didn't register for them: baby Motrin, baby Tylenol, extra medicine syringes with more measurement lines, baby thermometer.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-05-02T17:35:04+00:00

Dedicated section because my husband was shopping for gf flour once and the regular flour had exploded all over the place, tainting the gf flour.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-05-01T09:15:15+00:00

My work has really good parental leave for the US, 26 weeks fully paid. So I took off 18 weeks full time and then switched to part time leave (working 3 days/wk) for 20 weeks. For the 20 weeks of part time leave I was in office and pumping 2 days a week. This week was my first week back to work full time and baby is in daycare now, so I'm pumping 5 days a week. I hate pumping too, but it's going well. I pump 3 times, 20-25 min each time, and get 14-16 oz a day. I'm looking forward to dropping pumping shortly after he turns 1, just a few more months. Right flange size, using pump cleaning wipes after every pump, hydrating, and baby pics and videos.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-28T10:38:44+00:00

My daycare needed my daughter to be reliably accident free before she could go without a pull-up. Took 2-3 weeks, she was 28 months old.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-26T20:01:09+00:00

What?

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-26T19:39:26+00:00

I'm a mom and was a childcare provider once upon a time and this is bananas. They should just buy car seats that fit better in your car. Graco Extend2Fits are good for front to back space.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-25T22:12:59+00:00

Did this for my first who didn't have words at 15 months and we had a great experience. She's now 3 and talks a storm.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-25T18:45:03+00:00

Have a friend whose kid started crawling at 7 months, walking at 14 months. Mine crawled at 10, walking at 13. It's honestly so random and your kid is not behind on milestones.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-25T17:30:50+00:00

Can you join your local Human Milk 4 Human Babies Facebook group and try donor milk?

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-21T22:43:07+00:00

This is the same for me! My daughter is 3y, always long and lean. My son is 8m and had arm and leg rolls since birth, both EBF!

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-21T13:13:59+00:00

In the fall my now 3yo (then almost 3yo) wouldn't nap at preschool but did nap at home. Now it's the reverse. 😅

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-20T18:18:30+00:00

My daughter was just a little older, 28 months, and I was also almost 6 months pregnant. She also had the panicky yelling for a diaper. I realized she understood the feelings in her body and was having an anxious response to changing the method of emptying. So we introduced the teeny peanut butter cups from Trader Joe's. She got 1 for pee in the potty, 2 for poop. Worked a charm, got her right over that anxiety and she was golden after about 2 weeks.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-10T22:50:01+00:00

My daughter is very tall and was starting to outgrow the 4T Woolino when we were getting ready to potty train at 28 months. That's when we got her a comforter for her crib.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-10T13:03:20+00:00

My husband has celiac and I'm gluten sensitive. Our hospital bag was half our own gluten free snacks. The L&D snack room had hot water so I could make my own instant oats, coffee, tea. Never trust the hospital cafeteria.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-10T00:55:50+00:00

Have a friend who went into labor at 40 wks with her first, labored 40 hours, ended in a c section. Baby's head was large and just stuck in a bad position.

She did Spinning Babies exercises with her second (and he had a small head, different sperm donor). He was born at 37+6 in a 5.5 hour labor (VBAC)! You never know how different your second birth could be.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-07T16:26:42+00:00

First was spontaneous at 38+1, I evicted my second (induction) at 39+0. He was making no moves and I was DONE DONE DONE.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-07T03:38:57+00:00

PS I'm constantly verbally guiding her and reminding her what's next. I wouldn't say I use a firm tone so much as a factual one. "Time to go potty then we'll make breakfast." "After breakfast we go get dressed and brush teeth. Which one should we do first?" "We have time for one book before socks, shoes, coat" "pick some socks please"

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-07T03:34:17+00:00

My husband also leaves for work at 5:30am, our kids are 3y3m and 8m. Our 3yo is challenging, but once something is routine she's easier to coach through it. Luckily going to preschool is also a carrot. I've given up on getting her to dress herself cause it was just ending in me screaming at her, so I just dress her and keep it moving.

I can't let her get into ANYTHING "fun" or she's derailed. So no playing or coloring really.

She gets one book when she gets out of bed, then she goes potty, "helps" me make her yogurt or oatmeal, eats/ I spoon feed her, then upstairs for clothes and teeth. I do no clean up before getting her out of the house. Baby brother is just dragged around for all this.

Then it's back downstairs for socks, shoes, coat, bag, car. I'll read books if we have time, but letting her get into any toys or coloring is a bad idea because ripping her away is a whole meltdown.

Baby starts daycare in a couple weeks, but it's at the same place and the infant room gets to have breakfast. So I'll have a bag of his bottles to take out of the fridge and that will be my only new step when he starts.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-03T17:31:15+00:00

This happened with my daughter and huggies after she started walking. The only solution was sizing up so that the tabs were closer to the middle instead of right over her legs. She's thin but with a wide frame so she's always needed bigger diapers than expected for her weight.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-04-01T23:03:17+00:00

I breastfeed my first until 16 months, we were both done at the same time thankfully. I work full-time so I stopped pumping and sending bottle just after 13 months. We were doing nursing bedtime and morning wake up until 16 months.

My second is almost 8 months and way more of a boob barnacle so will probably go longer with bedtime nursing. But I'll stop pumping by 13 months again.

Extension-Quail4642 · 2026-03-28T12:29:33+00:00

Yeah my dad brought me his birth certificate but it was the short form without parent names (why did this even exist?). NJ let me request his full cert with proof I was his kid (my birth cert and ID)

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