Hi Girls... I'm back. I dug up this old thread as I'm back to the same old concern.
After initially posting, you all were right and things went along tickety-boo. It seems G's growth slows for a month, and then picks up the next. So... months 3 and 5 were less; months 2, 4, and 6 were bigger (he did actually do the weight-double thing right at about 6 mo). Leading us to month 7, where he gained nothing.
He was 7 mo a week ago, so I weighed him again on my parents' bathroom scale. I got basically the same reading as at the ped's office for his 6 mo appt, give or take an ounce. I know that BF'd babies weight gain slows a bit the second half of the year, but do I need to be worried about a gain of nothing?
He's constantly on the move (army-crawls everywhere, hardly sits still even when being held) and is quite distracted while nursing. He has two solid meals a day; doesn't ever eat too much in the morning, but does pretty well at 'supper.' I started taking More Milk Plus (an herbal supplement with fenugreek and blessed thistle) at about 5.5 mo as he was seeming ravenous, before we started any solids. I still BF ~6 times in 24 hrs (there have been only a few days of only 5 times). He seems satisfied after nursing, but does seem to take more if offered an hour or two later. He was sick for a couple weeks in this month, during which I pretty much nursed on demand as he got pretty stuffed up and I never knew if he was getting a good feed.
I guess my greatest concern is that somewhere in all this my supply has diminished. Claire's weight really plateaued around this time as well and I dropped her NF with PUPD (because everyone thought she should be sleeping through at that point), which has always bothered me (like, did I cause her not to get enough calories
), so those feelings are playing into this as well. Another thing that bugs me sometimes is often in literature (i.e. Kellymom, a couple nursing books I have), it seems they're so dead-set on demand feeding and against schedules/routines that they say if you've always followed one, your milk supply won't keep up. I wonder then what does that mean for the BFd baby on BW?
So... do I take steps to feed him more during the day? Should I call my ped's office and check in with her? Or do I wait another month and weigh him again and see what's up?