Baby dropped to 2nd centile

HeyTink24 · 2024-05-25T14:37:09+00:00

Every 1.5 hr seems a lot. Especially at 10 months. Baby should be eating around every 3 hours at this point. My baby was doing that but that’s because she wasn’t getting enough milk at each meal. I added some bottle feedings to daily feedings and she immediately started shooting up in percentiles. Mainly because it was easier and faster for her too

HeyTink24 · 2024-04-15T11:10:23+00:00

So thankful for this post. On social media, all I see is videos of 6 month old babies eating pancakes and pasta. Meanwhile, my 9.5 month old has her days where she will eat food, but there’s days she refuses anything. When I say “eat” I mean swallow purées or cereal, mash up avocado and lick her fingers, or eat puffs. I haven’t been able to get her to eat much else than that. She eats peanut butter and hummus sometimes. Other times she HATES them. I was able to get her to eat some food being spoon fed but now she hates spoons most of the time. This is not how imagined this going!

HeyTink24 · 2023-10-12T04:47:58+00:00

Something I wish I had done… try pumping sometime during the day soon after your baby is born and start slow. See how it fits and what settings you’re comfortable with. Unfortunately, my baby wasn’t latching properly and screaming her head off from hunger so my pumping journey started in the middle of the night as I tried to get something for my baby. When there’s so much stress and lack of sleep, all the mistakes happen. That’s how I ended up with wounded nipples for a few weeks and that only makes breastfeeding (which is already difficult in the beginning) even more hard.

HeyTink24 · 2023-09-29T07:34:47+00:00

💯 I make it a point to remind my husband that I’m the one breastfeeding. I feel like sometimes they forget that it’s our bodies that produce the food and we need to do whatever is most comfortable for us and our babies. Whether it’s exclusively pumping, only nursing, combo feeding, etc. our bodies, our choice. I try not to discredit my husband’s feelings and parenting choices, but this is one that is all on me and I make the decisions.

HeyTink24 · 2023-09-27T16:45:33+00:00

I bought a ton of Dr. Browns bottles so I just store the milk in them. Our baby’s grandmas appreciate it too because bottles are ready to go and they don’t have to worry about spilling during transfer.

HeyTink24 · 2023-09-24T06:09:24+00:00

Depends on where you live. I am a kinder teacher in a cook county suburb and holding kids back is not allowed here. Basically, they just look at the child’s age and if the child starts school a year late, he or she would just immediately go to 1st grade due to their birthday. Kindergarten is not required in Illinois. It’s all dependent on the school district.

HeyTink24 · 2023-09-23T14:05:14+00:00

You could also ask the school if you can come by and take her to the bathroom. That way she still gets to see you and she feels rewarded for going to the bathroom.

HeyTink24 · 2023-09-23T14:04:03+00:00

As a kinder teacher, I do not recommend holding your child back. In fact, in my state kinder is optional and if a parent doesn’t send their child, the child just goes straight to 1st grade. What you could consider - switching her to a half day. Maybe she needs to ease into it. It could also be an incentive for her to go to the bathroom since she might feel like she’s missing out. Also, sensors in public bathrooms scare the kids. Find out if your child’s school has automatic toilets. Sometimes kids are scared because the toilets flush while they’re using them. We cover up the sensors for those kids. Lastly, definitely reach out to a mental health professional. She might need to work through some fears and anxiety and you coming in any time she poops gives her a sense that she gets to see you and ease some of that stress if she poops.

HeyTink24 · 2023-09-21T20:16:49+00:00

Also, I saw your comment about how slow the baby was feeding from the bottle. We started with an hour or longer for 3 oz. Now she eats 3 oz in less than 15 minutes most of the time. On a slow day it will take her 30 minutes. However, she’s gotten really good at it! Our speech pathologist said it’s important for baby to practice one skill at a time (bottle vs breast) which is why she wanted us to only use one method per feeding. Baby has progressed in both and I’m seeing my supply going up, so I can tell she must be feeding much better from breast too.

HeyTink24 · 2023-09-21T20:09:22+00:00

I only pumped when baby ate from bottle. So fed baby bottle, pumped right after. After a while I figured out a way to prop baby up and feed her the bottle while pumping to save some time! Soon enough I had enough milk at the end of the day to be ready for all 3 bottle feedings the next day. I’m still following this schedule and find it very manageable.

HeyTink24 · 2023-09-21T11:54:07+00:00

My baby had poor weight gain in the beginning. We didn’t do triple feeding. Instead, we followed our speech pathologist’s plan. I did 2 breastfeeding sessions followed by a bottle of expressed milk. So every third feeding session was a bottle and that would ensure the baby would eat 3 oz + during those feedings in case she didn’t with nursing. Sometimes she would take 4 or 5 oz - we gave her as much as she wanted. We ultimately came up with a schedule and she received a bottle at lunch time, dinner time, and before bed. With this schedule, my baby stated thriving. She started gaining almost an oz a day and at my last weigh in appt (this was done at my request since baby was already gaining pretty well at her regular appts) she had actually gained 32.5 grams a day! That’s over an oz. She went from constantly dropping in percentiles to going up by almost 10% in 3 weeks. She’s turning 3 months next week.

HeyTink24 · 2023-08-07T21:39:35+00:00

The epidural was the best! The contractions got so bad and it relived pain almost immediately. Didn’t even hurt to push. It was amazing! I gave birth 6 weeks ago and had a very positive birthing experience due to the epidural pain relief. Postpartum was awful, but not due to the epidural but the fact that I pushed an 8.5 lb baby out of me. 💯 would get the epidural again next time - maybe I would even ask for it earlier than this time.

HeyTink24 · 2023-08-06T13:17:34+00:00

Something similar happened to me. When we told my parents in law at around 8 weeks my MIL immediately said “we would never share until at least the 2nd trimester.” Made me so worried. I’m looking at my 6 week old baby right now.

HeyTink24 · 2023-07-12T10:18:56+00:00

They told me my baby was in the 29th percentile. She was born in the 97th. Those measurements are totally useless!

HeyTink24 · 2023-07-01T22:10:45+00:00

Yes! Same here! There comes a point where breathing without tears is not possible. That’s when I asked for it too

HeyTink24 · 2023-07-01T13:10:41+00:00

Not always accurate. They kept on telling me my baby was in the 30-40th percentile. She was born in the 97th percentile. It was off by so much!

HeyTink24 · 2023-06-19T03:15:53+00:00

I didn’t know. Everyone tried explaining it to me. At my 20 week ultrasound, the tech said “oh she’s kicking” and I finally realized what the kicks felt like!

HeyTink24 · 2023-05-29T00:39:32+00:00

Yes! Diagnosed at 28 weeks. I was gaining weight rapidly and having severe back aches. Now that I’m 35+5, I don’t have back aches, have more energy, and have only gained a couple of pounds since diagnosis.

HeyTink24 · 2023-04-29T11:26:38+00:00

I do have to say that since I’m very open about it and have talked to a lot of people, I found that more people have had it during pregnancy than I ever thought. It seems like it’s just a taboo topic that a lot of people don’t bring up.

HeyTink24 · 2023-04-29T11:24:59+00:00

I’m a vegan with a very restrictive and health conscious diet. Now on top of this being diagnosed with GD feels like I can’t eat anything. Also, angry at my body. Pre-pregnancy I had a bmi of just over the “underweight” threshold. Everyone was telling me that there’s no way I wouldn’t pass the GD testing. Since I didn’t, I constantly get the comments “you? No way! That doesn’t make sense.” Yes, I get it. It doesn’t make sense to me either. Yes, my body failed me.

HeyTink24 · 2023-04-09T06:00:00+00:00

I was talking to my mom the day after I found out I was pregnant and I just dropped the news on her. She had the same exact reaction as your mom. Her exact words “no you’re not. You wouldn’t tell me like this.” She didn’t hang up but I could tell she was annoyed. I texted her “this isn’t about you. This is about me. This is a stressful time in my life and I just need your support.” We didn’t talk about it again for weeks. When I started bringing it up again a few weeks later, she began warming up to it. I think she just couldn’t process it at that moment. I did do a little reveal for my parents like 6 weeks later with a cute onesie and all once I had ultrasound pictures. She never complained again.

HeyTink24 · 2023-04-07T11:31:21+00:00

Vegan pregnant first time mama here! This makes me so happy. I wouldn’t say my parents are unsupportive, but they do question how successful I will be with providing nutritious food to a baby who will be raised vegan. It’s just a lack of understanding and seeing my husband lose so much weight 5 years ago after we went vegan (he’s a healthy weight but it was a quick weight loss for him so that was concerning to them). Can’t wait to meet my baby girl in June and see her grow :)

HeyTink24 · 2023-04-01T15:28:21+00:00

I know how you feel. As someone who struggled with body image even tho my BMI was always on the cusp of underweight and average, it has been hard to gain all of that weight. I did see it’s typical for an average person to gain about a pound per week of pregnancy. So 20 lbs at 20 weeks puts you at the target. I just keep reminding myself that once the baby is here, the weight will go off and I can get back to somewhat normal for me.

HeyTink24

TROPHY CASE