When the Bean was born, she weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces. It's normal for a baby lose up to 10% of its birth weight - in her case, 14 ounces. But the Bean lost a bit more (19 ounces) so for the past 2+ weeks, we've been waking her up every 2.5 to 3 hours, night and day, to slosh her full of milk and get her back up over her birth weight. We knew it was working well when she gained 9 ounces in 6 days (typical is 3/4 to 1 ounce per day), but that still left her a half-pound short.
Well, we worry no more - after another appointment 6 days later, we now have a little ButterBean - she put on 12 ounces in 6 days! No wonder she hasn't been crying - she's never even been all that hungry! All of this now means that we don't have to wake her (or ourselves) anymore - she has graduated to COD status (Chow On Demand). Of course, this means she'll wake US up and be a bit crankier, but I'll take 4 hours of sleep plus a bit of crankitude from her compared to 2 hours of sleep and grumpfulness from Mrs. Dave & me...
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