Today we had our weight check. Miranda gained over one pound in less than a month! So, she’s now 18 pounds 14 ounces, which is 10th percentile (up from 5th). Her height, by the way, is the 50th percentile. Eleanor, on the other hand, only gained two ounces, so she’s the same weight as Miranda, 18 pounds 14 ounces, down from the 15th percentile. The pediatrician was concerned about Eleanor because she’s 80th percentile in height, so she can’t have biologic failure to thrive, she just doesn’t get enough calories.
Well, my efforts to make their food more calorically dense worked for Miranda because she eats everything I cook. I made the rice, chicken, egg, and vegetable “chop suey” that my friend Sophia suggested, and she wolfed that down. Eleanor, on the other hand, doesn’t eat anything that I make, so she only eats jarred baby food, which I think is surprisingly TOO healthy. There’s really not much fat in commercial baby food.
Bernard suggested putting a pat of butter in each jar of Eleanor’s baby food, which we may have to resort to doing. We’re also going to try another one of Sophia’s suggestions, which is to “spike” her milk with formula. One scoop of formula in a 7 ounce bottle of milk makes it 26 calories per ounce, instead of 19 calories per ounce. Anyway, we have to do another weight check next month, so Operation Fatten Them Up continues.
that’s great that miranda loves the food. eleanor may have a finicky palate. you know… most asian girls (children) are very skinny… good thing i didn’t grow up in the US. they would definitely thought i was FTT. anyway, i think jar baby food is probably not enuf for 1 year olds. you can start pureeing table food if she doesn’t like the baby chop suey.