Category: Parent Talk
Well, I think I was right when I predicted Robbie would become a footballer when he grows up. He's even more aware than before of his surroundings, he's resisting bedtime in his crib at night, he gets cramps in his legs if he's left in his carseat for too long and whatever mum says, I think he's developed a serious dislike of her and my Uncle Richard's girlfriend Linda. He was screaming in mum's ear the other day and she said he wakes and screams before even opening his eyes, but he's still really sweet with me, the girls and our grandparents. Well, I didn't expect any different. Mine and Robbie's life numbers, 6 and nine're very compatible and I knew we'd get on really well together when I keyed his Birthday in to Paul Sadowski's Birthday Calculator (see Blbobby's board post on it). Well, that's all for now, but I'll update as and when.
Jen.
Good to hear this young one is sweet with you. Sounds as though you so much love and care for this one. Is he your little brother or perhaps nephew?
~*Thunderous MidNight*~
Well, he's like a little brother. I'm an only child, so I have a very close relationship with my Aunt and having my cousins is just like having four younger brothers and sisters.
Jen.
Hmm, sounds like Mr. Robbie is asking for some disaplin. Just intristed, how do you no he gets cramps in his legs in the car seat?
Good luck, he sounds vary strong willed all reddy!
Thanks Tracey. Gran said Robbie got cramps in his legs if he spent too much time in his car seat. He loves his new bouncy chair to bits though, a very lucky find, including the vibrater, for just £20 and a very nice comfy little chair it looks too. Richard was bouncing Robbie up and down in there like you wouldn't believe when we were all round there for dinner last Friday week. If Robbie could've done his first belly laugh, that would've been a real classic. It was written all across his little face and well worth a photo with the aid of mum's or Gran's digital cameras.
Our baby is 6 months old, (nearly 7 actually) and she doesn't get crapms in her car seat. You know, its very very bad for that to happen and I suggest a shopping trip for a new one coz it obviously isn't very good. As for him being 2 months old now, thats great, but nothing to gloat about. You wait until he develops and attachment to only one person and screams at everyone else because that will happen. You'll wonder what your doing wrong, and trust me, it hurts. I'm lucky, Hannah is coming out of that stage now. You will find as time goes on he will be more alert and more responsive. As for not liking his bed time, sounds like he either sleeps too much dirung the day or doens't get played with enough.
Good Luck.
The the car seat's all right, but we did have concerns that Robbie might have congenital hip displacia (or dislocated hips) because he was getting these cramps in his legs, but he must be all right if he's in something like his crib or his bouncy chair. They're more springy and flexible than the car seat, part of a travel system combination pram/pushchair. As for all the attention he gets, he has four older sisters and two older brothers, so he's always attention-seeking, and screams if he wakes and no-one picks him up, so he's constantly stimulated, especially by Joe, Kezzie, Tegen and various schoolfriends round the house. He turns three months old the day after tomorrow and he's nearly trippled in size since he was born.
Jen.
The doctors would have taken x-rays to diagnose the problem of congenital hip displasia, long before this. Seeing as he was born by Cessarian Section, I wouldn't rule that out. Are you sure the straps on the car seat are too tight?
No, I'm not sure. I know how to check that out though. You should just be able to get your index fingers between the straps and the baby if they're tight enough.
If Robby has trippled size since he's been born he is entirely too big! The way a child is supposed to grow, within reason, is tripple their size by the time they are 1. So if your baby is 7 pounds when he is born, he should be approximately 21 pounds when he turns 1. If he's already trippled his size in 3 months I feel so sorry for that baby!
lol Holly. hahahahahahaha. Hannah is 7 months and is only 18 pounds and a few ounces. She weighed 7 pounds exactly at birth. I too feel sorry for that baby! hahahahaha.
Well, he's put on nearly double his birth weight then. He used to put on about an ounce a day, now he's slowed down a bit, that's all.
Jen.
Hi Jen,
Now plese understand that I am not an expert by any meens, but I have worked vary closley with menny children over the passed few years and I would think Master Robbie's screeming anticks in his car seat are more at being restraned in an awkward position then havveing cramps in his legs. Mind you that could explain things, but if he's fine in his bouncy seat, witch is vary simmeler I really would not give the leg cramp therie much wate.
Speecking of wate, though's of you that are bashing Robbie for being a little on the larg side, remember that this child was a premiture baby, thus he was much lighter then a fulltirm child would have been, and it is vary commen for a premitchore baby to gane rappedely to make up for lost time that he would have been in the woom.
So to me, Robbie is not over wate, he is helthy.
Lots of hugs to Jen and Robbie!
Tracey
He isn't always screaming in his car seat though. He will twitch and move around a lot if he's ever uncomfortable. Also, well remembered Tracy, Robbie was born 17 days early by C section and weighed in at just 4 lbs 7 Oz4 Lbs 7 OZ, owing to he fact that his mum had the lu when she was pregnant with him so she obviously didn't eat very much when she was ill. Therefore, scarcity of food, caused Robbie to develop his huge appetite as he took all the vitamins, minerals and things he needed from his Mother's organs and bones.
Jen.
Jen,
I don't think you understood what I ment in my last post, I sed that it's perfictly normel for Robbie to be eating alot and ganeing wate because he's makeing up for lost time and getting what he needs vitomen wize. He was about 4 pounds when he was born right? So he proibley gained some wate that he would have if he had been carried until fool tirm, then he has his normel baby gaining, so no he is not over wate. Now the baby I saw on tv this morning is over wate, that pore child wayed about 9 pounds when she was born, and at barely three months she's over 16 pounds, that is an over wate baby.
Now if Robbie keeps gaining like he has been then I would start getting consernd, but I would think this is normel.
All the best for you and your family,
Tracey
Even if his mother was sick during her pregnancy Robby would not have suffered nutritionally. Even if she felt poorly and did not eat too awful much because she felt sick she would have been the only one to suffer. The baby would have had plenty of nutrition, as you said, taking it from his mother when he needed it. His low weight was because of his premature birth, not because he was deprived unless he was low for date. There can be premature babies that are lower weight than full term babies but that are normal for the stage of development that they were at when they were delivered. Then you can have low for date babies which means that their birth weight was low, even taking into consideration their prematurity. It's important to make the distinction.
lol. every baby is different. so it's funny to se everone saying what others are or aren't doing wrong. hehehehe what's right for one may not be for another.
I'm not saying that the parents are doing or did anything wrong. I simply am explaining how hospital staff classify infants' birthweights. It is nice to be informed and understand the differences between termonologies so that one can make intelligent decisions and statements. Having a low for date baby is nothing the parent determines, nothing I determine, nothing you determine, it is something the doctors and nurses determine and they are professionals working from extensive research.