Well the baby isn't really shrinking but he isn't gaining any weight which is just as scary to me. I have never encountered this problem with my other children so it is alarming. I am feeding him every 2-3 hours and he doesn't act like he's still hungry so I am confused about his lack of weight gain. Well very little weight gain anyway he was 8.1lbs when he was born, he was 7.6lbs when we went home 4 days later and at 2 weeks he was 7.5lbs! Yesterday when we had him weighed again he was up to 7.7lbs so that is an improvement but the question is if he can keep it on...We'll keep trying and hopefully he'll start catching up and get hefty soon.
I am surprised at how different things are this time around, having two older children does make things a little easier. The kids are very helpful so far, we just have to figure out how to keep the 10 year old off the baby, she wants to hold him all the time and you can't convince her that he isn't a doll!
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I thought you had figured out by now that not only was this pregnancy different than your others but with Josiah's rapid entrance to this world that he also was going to be unlike your other babies. I am sure he is fine just smaller than you are used to and after all he is gaining weight, just slowly. Love ya :)
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