Yes, you expect to see smaller than “average” children from smaller than average parents. While this doesn’t always hold true and we do see a random very tall child towering over his parents, it still usually holds true that parents’ size influences child size to a great degree. Vegan is a great way to be eating and I wouldn’t be concerned in any way for how that would affect your child’s nutrition except in all positive ways!

Are health visitors required in the UK?

Hope this helps.

From my research, a baby gets the most fat rich milk from hindmilk, so letting the baby decide when to let go of the breast is the best way to make sure they get the most fat rich milk. If feedings are timed from the beginning of one session to another, and you say no more than 90 minutes apart, what do you do for a patient baby? My daughter can stay on a single breast for half an hour, making the session an hour long. That leaves only half an hour until the beginning of the next session.

Is this rule firm, or can the length of time between feedings be calculated with difference to the length of the session?

Thanks for all your help.

I am an American mother raising her 6 month-old son here in the U.K. and am currently being pestered by doctors and health visitors here as to my son recently having lost a little weight (I suspect it was due to a bad reaction he had to a vaccination jab he had and/or his increased activity level) and while he has since gained it back–he has done so a bit more gradually. He is a happy, rosy, healthy, inquisitive, active and bright child who is meeting his developmental milestones and he feeds from the breast well (though I have had to order a nursing necklace since he has reached the ‘age of distraction’!). He has only had but one cold (which he caught from his daddy) and that was just a few weeks after he was born!

Neither my husband or I are large people I a 5’7 and my husband 5’9-ish)and I maintained my vegan diet while pregnant and continue to while breastfeeding. I have read that children born of veggie moms, tend to be leaner–though healthier. I do not put weight on easily myself and I never have (even before becoming vegan).

I am being badgered to supplement my son with formula (though he fusses as to the bottle) or to top-up with expressed milk which is becoming quite a grind on me and I think…Adults differ as to size and we cannot be conformed to any graphs so why should our children?

I quite agree with all your article has said and thus far, my child fits all of the criteria of being healthy–but just a ‘slow-gainer’!

Hope that helps.

When faced with a baby that is wetting well and seems to be wanting to nurse constantly with no other symptoms always assume first that it’s a growth spurt and baby is doing what is biologically natural to increase your supply.

She woke up extremely hungry but wouldn’t settle down to nurse. It took her an hour to calm down and eat her fill. Same thing with the next feeding. At 4 in the afternoon I put her to the breast even though she was sleepy. It was finally a normal feeding but after only half an hour she was screaming for food again. I nursed her for an hour and she was still fussy so we warmed up 2 ounces stored breast milk to give me a break.

She was really happy after the bottle, but another hour repeated the cycle. Nurse for hour, another bottle of breast milk. It’s barely been half an hour since that bottle aNd she’s crying again. Is this a sign that she’s starving? Also according to our home scale she gained neArly a whole pound since yesterday. So confused.

Hope that helps.

Hope that helps.

We are working with the lactation specialists ans pediatrician on this. We took him yesterday and he was at 7lb 6 oz….close enough. On our own, we ditched the SNS which is only recommended for the 1st week (accoriding to our pediatrician). We decided to supplement his fedddings with a DR Brown glass bottle that contained breast milk and formula. IT WORKED FANTASTIC. The SNS tubing was angering my boy and making him detach. He now feeds beautifully and is gaining weight. I did take the more milk plus on recommendation from our pediatrician. Lesson learned…..just becasue the lactation specialists are giving you advice doesnt mean its good advice. The SNS tubing should have been replaced by a bottle a week ago.