Mercury Monday

[dreemkin]

[dreemkin]

What's going on today? I'm just doing laundry. And trying to eat better because I stepped on the scale this morning

[aggiebug]

Hello hello. Today is prep for MIL day and start researching our family vacation fory parents 50th anniversary. Eep.


In other news I have a friend who has a 2 week old baby (born 4 weeks early) who was just released from forced feeding every 2hrs for slow weight gain. Yay! Then her pediatrician said she could start working on cry it out at night. What the what? Momma said she looked at the Dr like she was insane and isn't listening to her, but I just can't believe that was even said. TWO WEEKS OLD and just back to birth weight (which was only 5lbs and change)

[dreemkin]

Aug 15, 2016 15:42:15 GMT -5 aggiebug said:

Then her pediatrician said she could start working on cry it out at night. What the what? Momma said she looked at the Dr like she was insane and isn't listening to her, but I just can't believe that was even said. TWO WEEKS OLD and just back to birth weight (which was only 5lbs and change)

I don't know about breastfeeding rules but with FF you're not supposed to feed the baby more than every couple hours (try for 3-4 hours at night, iirc) to prevent over-feeding. You should stick to an amount of ounces per day. I know my girls tried to eat more and I had to hold them off...the formula guzzling machines they were. Babies quickly get their parents' "number" if they give in and continue on an unhealthy path. Maybe that's what the doctor meant.

I'm glad the baby's doing well though!!

[aggiebug]

dreemkin she is BFing and I get limiting formula Oz, and to a much much lesser extent BFing Oz (I know of a few cases where over supply caused stomach issues so limiting was necessary but that the only time), but not cry it out.

[lilyelayne]

Limiting feeding =/= cry it out. A two week old?! And hasn't even made it to due date yet? There's a lot of parenting advice I can ignore from a doctor, but I might have to look for a new one after that...

[lilyelayne]

Another beach day. The kids took awesome naps this afternoon so everyone is in a better mood today. Going out to eat tonight

[aggiebug]

Aug 15, 2016 16:42:43 GMT -5 lilyelayne said:

Limiting feeding =/= cry it out. A two week old?! And hasn't even made it to due date yet? There's a lot of parenting advice I can ignore from a doctor, but I might have to look for a new one after that...

Yeah this is where I am at.

[dreemkin]

Sorry!! Like i said I know nothing about BF and I was not trying to defend the doctor. Maybe there was some miscommunication/improper terms being used on the doctors end. Seems pretty unprofessional though if that's the case. The good thing is if your friend is really bothered by it, she is totally free to find another pedi like lilyelayne said!!

ETA: CIO can be interpreted differently.

[aggiebug]

dreemkin I didn't think you were out of line or anything with what you said. Sorry. You are right there are numerous interpretations of CIO, but I can't think of any that would be reasonable for a 2 week old especially one who hasn't even reached her due date and clearly needs all the calories she requests still ya know?

[mishka29]

This Monday was a wash. I was so unproductive at work I probably shouldn't get paid for today. I mean, I still will but whatever.

[dmorgendorffer]

mishka29 that post made me lol.

aggiebug that is incredibly bizarre guidance from the Pedi. Hard to imagine why that would have even come up at this stage.

Everyone has colds at our house. Also, E had her first day in the toddlers room at daycare, she's not a chipmunk anymore, she's a bunny. She came home completely exhausted but she still had a little fight left in her for bed time.

[seamonster]

DS had his checkup this morning. 31.95lbs, but I'm pretty sure he left half of a pound in his diaper as we were walking into the exam room. It was gross and a lesson to me about feeding him Thai food on the weekend.

On track for everything. We did an extra hearing check since both of my sisters have hearing loss, one due to repeat ear infections. Hearing appears to be normal. I was afraid he was behind on speech, but he's meeting the word minimum, babbles, and has good receptive speech.