Weight: 19 lbs. 4 oz.
Head circumference: 45.4 cm.
Which puts him in the 50th percentile right down the line.
His iron levels are a little low. I'm following roughly this approach to feeding him and would prefer not to mess around with iron-fortified cereal or supplements, so I'll make sure to give him more meat and do more cooking for him in cast-iron. He'll be rechecked in December.
Meanwhile, he remains as stinky a sleeper as ever. We were up seven times before 4:30 this morning, and I haven't been back to sleep since. His otherwise satisfactory doctor has nothing to suggest beyond leaving him alone in a room in the dark to cry. (When we were going through similar troubles with Henry, the doctor told his responding to his cries would--and I quote--"create a monster.") Leaving aside my profound discomfort with following that advice, it is a practical impossibility, in our 2-bedroom, 900-square-foot house.
http://www.fyiliving.com/health/sleep/infants-children/could-iron-deficiency-be-interrupting-your-childs-sleep/
ReplyDeleteIf he had previously slept well and only lately stopped, or if Henry, who slept at least as poorly, had suffered from iron deficiency, I might suspect there was a connection.
ReplyDeleteMore information about iron: http://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/vitamins/iron.html
How's your iron?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20620103
ReplyDeleteLast time it was checked (April, maybe?) it was fine.
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