{"id":981,"date":"2013-06-17T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2013-12-16T12:59:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T17:59:42","slug":"my-children-are-so-dense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/17\/my-children-are-so-dense\/","title":{"rendered":"My Children are so Dense!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite all of my children being near or above average size at birth, I\u2019ve yet to have a truly \u201cbig\u201d baby, toddler or child.\u00a0 Doodle had his one month well check this morning (even though he\u2019s almost 6 weeks\u2026our Doctor is an extremely busy guy and apparently having a baby just before summer camps start and everyone needs physicals and forms causes scheduling complications).\u00a0 Our little guy grew 2 inches and gained nearly 3 pounds since his 1 day check.\u00a0 He\u2019s now 24 inches and a bit over 11 pounds (98% for height and about 75% for weight).\u00a0 Sugarplum had a similar weight gain the first month (2 \u00bd pounds) and then slowed WAY down.\u00a0 Despite being 75% at a month, she is now only about 25 pounds at almost 3 years (about 3% but still about 25% for height) and wears 12 month size pants (which as you can imagine are capri length which luckily works for Florida in June!)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the strange thing, though:\u00a0 Doodle is still wearing newborn clothes (usually sized for up to 8 pounds) and still wearing newborn size diapers (up to 10 pounds).\u00a0 We\u2019ve tried the size 1 diapers a few times over the past few week but they are huge on him!\u00a0 The crotch area is twice as wide as him and I can\u2019t get them to not gap in the back.<\/p>\n

I often tell people I have very dense children and I often get strange looks at first.\u00a0 I then have to go into a long explanation about how I mean they\u2019re dense in the physics sense of the word:\u00a0 They\u2019re heavy but compact.\u00a0 (I definitely don\u2019t mean in the mental sense of the word!)<\/p>\n

Both of my girls stayed little (Honeybun at the 6% and Sugarplum under 3%) until I got them drinking cow\u2019s milk regularly at which time their weight started coming up more rapidly.\u00a0 I\u2019ve assumed I just had lean breastmilk which kept my children lean.\u00a0 Luckily our pediatrician is very laid back about my children\u2019s weight, assuming they will be taller and thin since hubby and I both are and since they have never had developmental concerns due to their low weight.\u00a0 I\u2019m curious to see if Doodle takes after his sisters or if he will pave his own path.<\/p>\n

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I keep a growth chart for each of my children which will go in their scrapbooks, this is Sugarplum’s:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite all of my children being near or above average size at birth, I\u2019ve yet to have a truly \u201cbig\u201d baby, toddler or child.\u00a0 Doodle had his one month well check this morning (even though he\u2019s almost 6 weeks\u2026our Doctor is an extremely busy guy and apparently having a baby just before summer camps start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-business","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}