One morning when I was getting Leah dressed, which is something I have started getting into the habit of because the first few months of my daughter’s life I didn’t see a need to change her out of her PJ’s if we weren’t going anywhere, or if the weather was cold because all she did all day was sleep so why change her clothes to sleep in? Any way, back to the morning when I was actually changing my youngest out of her PJ’s and into some real clothes, I noticed she wasn’t fitting into the three month clothes anymore, and I had to pull out the six month pile which she actually fit into much better. I should mention that Leah is not even four months old yet. A lot of her clothes are hand me downs from Grace and even some of them are hand me downs from other people. I was a bit excited when I first found out that Leah was a girl, not only because of her gender but because I thought that I wouldn’t have to buy many clothes - I was wrong. Grace and Leah are opposite seasons with Leah being born in the winter and Grace being born in the spring so I had to buy a few new things at first but now I am thinking that with Leah being as big as she is, I might not have lucked out after all.
When Grace was born, she was eight pounds even and she slowly gained weight. At three months I switched from pumping breast milk to strictly formula feeding and then she started to gain more weight. I look at pictures of when Grace was how old Leah is now and she looks so tiny, it could be the pictures are deceiving me a bit but I remember that Grace could still fit into three month old clothes until she was about five months. Leah on the other hand was just over seven pounds when she was born and was on formula from the start. It didn’t take her long to out grow her newborn sleepers and fit comfortable into her zero to three month sleepers. She is a lot bigger than what her older sister was at this age, there are a lot more rolls on her legs, which I know will disappear when she gets older but sometimes I wonder if I am getting a glimpse into Leahs’ future- if she will have a weight problem when she gets older. It’s ridiculous I know to start the size number obsession or even think about future weight problems with her being so young and I wonder if I had had boys if these weight thoughts would even enter my mind. I am not over feeding her. She doesn’t get ‘soothed’ with a bottle every single time she cries but for some reason she is just bigger than Grace was. I am not losing sleep over it or fretting about it. I am not searching out Guinness Book of Records for biggest baby, nor am I looking to be on some weird TLC show about chubby babies. I just wonder. I think Leah is a bit longer than Grace was as well, which is another reason I have pulled out the six month old clothes, well at least the pants. The good thing is many of the clothes that Grace didn’t get a chance to wear when she was six months, Leah will hopefully put to good use. And I get to do some more shopping which isn’t always a bad thing.
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