Abby is going to be having a blood test done this Friday to test for anemia, thyroid, kidney, and liver function, and I'm not sure what else, but these tests are to rule out any physical problems which might be halting her growth.
Over the last two months, she has gained only 6 ounces in weight and have grown less than a half inch.
Our gut feeling is that there's absolutely nothing wrong with her and that this is just her growth pattern. When Abby was a newborn, it took her 2 weeks to regain her birth weight and a month to catch up to expected rate of weight gain. She also shot off the charts in height very early on. She is just waiting to hit her growth spurt. So, in the meantime, we are not going to fret.
I have started to wean Abby. Over the last two months she has been very much against nursing. Every night we fight to get her to feed, but she will not take enough and ends up having to wake up in the middle of the night for a feeding. She gets impatient and prefers the instant milk delivery of a bottle when she's hungry. For awhile, we attributed her finicky feedings to a nursing strike, to working through development milestones, and to teething. However, it's been two months!! I have decided to let her take the lead. I will continue to pump enough to allow me to nurse her if she wants it. When she doesn't, she gets formula. Luckily, she takes formula very well.
These are some random photos taken recently. She is such a happy girl! Lately, she has been learning to jump, to let go for a few seconds and stand without support, and climb a few stairs. :) She has learned to say a couple of new words - uh-oh, nana (banana) and nigh-nigh (night-night) - to understand several new words/phrases - bizi (nose in Chinese), toufa (hair), pai-pai (pat), qinqin (kiss), shou-shou chu lai (arms out), give to mama, share, blink, shu shu tou (brush hair), bao-bao (hug), put in, take out, and no - and she has finally learned to sign "milk," to whistle and blow, and to turn electronics on and off....it makes watching TV extremely difficult sometimes. She is so interactive and fun at this age, though!
The upper right tooth is coming in. This is tooth number 4. She has been learning to brush her teeth and she does seem to like the routine.
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