3.29.2010

My Big {little} Guy

Donovan is my big guy because he's 9 months old already. But he's not so big in stature. He's infact just a tiny little guy. His stats:
Length: 25 1/4 inches (so just a shorty) Annika had him beat by about 2 inches at this age)
Weight: 15 lbs 8.5 ounces (less than the 3%). This has our dr. a bit worried and we go back in two weeks for a weigh check. It's not such a huge deal that he only weighs 15 lbs the problem is that his percentage of weight has gone down drastically. He was in the 50% at 6 months and in 3 short months has dropped below 3%. I think he is in general just a smaller little guy, but he's still in 3-6 month clothes (and I still have to roll the waist to make them stay up on him).

Our plan to help him gain weight (man, and here I'm trying to loose and he gets to gain)! ;) We are going to start supplementing formula. We'll see how this goes, we did it once so far today and he ate a good 2 ounces (not bad for a start).

If his weight doesn't go up like the doctor would like they will do blood tests and see if there is something else wrong. I personally think that supplimenting formula and feeding him a few more (good) fatty foods will help so I'm not to worried about it.

We will go back in two weeks to check his weight and see how he's doing.

Now on to a few pictures:
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And this is what you call a head of lettuce! ;)
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1 comment:

The Harrisons said...

ha ha ha - love that lettuce pic. Cutie pie!