No pants because we were just having a moment of post-poo bliss. No need to rush back into the day :0)See the shirt she is wearing? It says 'Mommy's Girl' and it was a gift from Pugmama waaaaay back in November of 2006 when we met for the first time at Sea Star's slice o'paradise. November of 2006. It is nearly April of 2009. That is STILL hard for me to wrap my head around. It seems like a lifetime ago. It seems like yesterday. It knocks me for a loop to finally see my kiddo wearing that shirt...and drooling all over it, thank you very much ;0)
There was a brief uproar last night at sleep time but we rolled with it and got through. The Wing still got 11 hours of sleep. I attribute the uproar about going down to dissing her schedule yesterday when appointments had to be made. In the grand scheme of things, it was small potatoes and I didn't even have to talk my shoulders down from being hunched up to my ears because of stress.
Every single night there is a brief but very loud cry, scream, whoop. Enough to make the cats run for the litter box. It usually occurs only once but sometimes a few back-to-back. My girl isn't even awake when this happens. I keep thinking I would love to know what is rolling through her mind at those moments. But, then I get worried about that exact issue. This is nothing critical that is disrupting her entire night nor is it becoming worse. It just is. Last night it was around 4AM and I was up anyway...go figure. The character was very different. I would have sworn it was a puppy yelping if it weren't coming from the crib. It lasted all of 7 seconds and she was back to deep sleep. (Yes, I DID count.) Only time will tell if we see this ease, I hope so. I also realize it may become worse.
As I've mentioned, The Wing eats like nobody's business. I had concerns about having a boy because I didn't think I'd be able to feed him as a teenager ;0) Hah, this 'delicate flower' kid eats more than a lot of school-agers I have seen. Seriously, she is a bottomless pit. I was a bit anxious about stuffing her full as a tick (which she never seems to be) but the ped said to let her eat as she wanted (healthy foods, of course). Sometimes I just don't understand why she doesn't puke. But, not an issue. Have your little ones been bottomless pits when they got home? I understand the psychology of the availability of food but it seriously flips me out how she can physically put away so much. I will say the orphanage report had that one dead-on. It said "She gets very excited when she sees food" Uh, yuh.
Off to talk to the insurance company about identity theft coverage...the CC dogs have me really peeved right now.
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Mali did indeed eat enough for the both of us when she came home . . . if its any reassurance I think she only puked once. & I don't think it was from over-eating.
Eat on!
Hannah actually gorged when we got home. Didn't last too long. The ped told us the same thing, let her unless she throws up. How in the world she did not, I will never know!
Hannah does the cry thing too. It las about that long as well and she is not awake. I thought it was a nightmare. We have been home 3 plus months and she does it almost every single night. So what is it?
It aroused me wide awake at first, now I hear them, recognize it and I go back to sleep.
You cracked me up about what the orphanage report said. Yeah, our Sofia was a bottomless pit as well. It even went on much longer than the other kids in our travel group. For some reason I was naive (sp?) enough to think since she was still a baby on formula, she was being fed enough. WRONG! I told you that John and I could not figure out why she would not sleep the first couple of nights. The poor girl was starving and since she had a cleft, we were scared to give her solid food since we did not know more about it as of then. I remember John mashing up some banana and giving it to Sofia and it was like the gates opened and my little girl could finally rest. I felt so bad we were probably starving our baby. Luckily, she gave us some time to get our act together.
Pipa has got to be one of the happiest and cutest babies I have ever seen. Lucky mama!
Sorry to hear about the night crying. Hope is subsides soon.
hugs,
Jonni
Sarah definitely ate like crazy for the first 6 months or so that we were home with her. It slowed down after that, until her next growth spurt. She still has those times (like right now, actually) where she's eating all day and is constantly hungry and it's always before she goes through another growth spurt. Then it slows down for a while. I constantly wonder where she puts it all, cause she's thin as a rail! But, for height she's in the 95th percentile, go figure!
Robin
Robin
Abby still cries out at night. Sometimes several times a night but it usually doesn't wake her all the way up.
Little Wing looks and sounds like such a sweetheart :) Good times!!
My daughter Evelyn ate like a champ when we first got home too. She chunked up real nice-like and then she seemed to even out to more normal amounts. Then for awhile, she went on a kick of being picky and hardly eating. I always thought that her body was working overtime to catch up on nutrition. Not a huge insight when you consider that at 11 mos, she had no idea she could put her hand to her mouth and transport food there! One of my crowning moments was when she shoved some fruit bar in her craw at the Pizza Hut in the middle of Nanchang- that took me about 5 days.
I think it will be a kick to see if CW gets her chub on too!
Gaaaaw she is so stinkin cute!
Seriously I am distracted by her cuteness that I can't remember what they heck you just posted about:)
Briana still has nights where she cries out for no reason. She is sleeping and has no idea she is doing it. I still upsets me when it happens.
I think overeating is a given when these babies get home. Bri did it too. The past few days, Bri has hardly eaten anything. So, the overeating does pass!!!
Gosh CW is so cute! I just want to snuggle her!
Maddy also ate like a horse when we got home. She gained like 6 pounds in just 3 months. (and grew an entire inch from the check up in cincy to our family doc) Even now, she can pack it away. I don't know where she puts it all. !
Maddy had a similar thing with waking up and being very upset every single night at 2:30 like clock work. We never needed to look at the clock because we knew exactly what time it was. I cannot recall though how long this lasted. A few months I think.
CW is such a cutie! I honestly cannot wait to meet her
Adam ATE AND ATE AND ATE when he came home. I had NEVER seen a toddler stuffing so much food into his mouth. It was kind of sad because it was obvious that he wasn't sure when his next meal would be. He would grab the food and SHOVEL it in. So much so that he would gag it back up. It was disconcerting. We learned to put small amounts in front of him at a time, then he couldn't shove it so full. I hated that because I felt like he didn't trust us to keep feeding him. Truth was, he didn't. Now he eats like a normal toddler. Large amounts, but normally.
Our girls ate more than us when they first came home (and for almost a year if I remember). It just gradually tapered off and now sometimes they pack it away and sometimes they just pick at their food. We can always tell if they're going to growth spurt by the amount of food they're packing away. One time (when they practically grew taller overnight) I started feeding them dinner at 5pm, and was still giving them food when TubaDad came home at 7. It was insane, the fridge was almost empty, the table was covered with empty containers, and I was a little crazed.
I don't remember that shirt. At all.
What does that say about how long we have been waiting?
agghhhhh.
Love seeing The Wings pictures!!!!
ahhhh....the first 3 month eating. It starts to get under control after the 3 month mark. Until then, let her eat until she (almost) pukes.She doesn't get it yet that there will always be food for her, poor baby.
Doreen in Montreal single mom to Faith-Jiangxi & Mia-Sichuan
Cute piccie. Maisie neither ate nor slept so exactly opposite of CW on that front. Maisie does do that nighttime scream, sometimes nightly for weeks at a time and then it will stop, then all of a sudden it starts again. I wish that I knew what she was dreaming about or that I could help her, maybe one day she'll be able to tell me what's going on in that mind of hers.
It is so much easier to have a kid that eats. I envy you on that one. I am sick of boiling pasta.
I can not wait to put my little sweetness in some of the cute things people have sent me over the last 3 years...someday soon I hope! CW is pretty stinkin cute!
In our experience the overeating does pass. Our experience was that she enjoyed **all foods** as a baby and especially before a growth spurt, but around 3 she became a picky eater.
I still don't cook her special meals but it is discouraging when your girl doesn't love the healthy food you give her with gusto. For some reason she loves Chinese food;-P and really strong foods like ginger and blue cheese but not the usual foods most kids adore.
I just ask her to try food again and again. She doesn't have to eat everything. Their little bodies know what they need.
Kyra
I used to wonder what caused those sudden terrors in the middle of the night, too. It took our daughter a while until they finally stopped happening. Hasn't happened in about 2 years (and we've been home 4 years).
Ditto what Mare said.
However...yes, had the same food thing with Hannah. Still do sometimes. The nightmare screaming out thing has become really big here lately. It breaks my heart...
Dayum is that girl cute.
2006 eh? I wonder what I'll pull out of the drawers that's been waiting since then! Interesting.
Weston eats enough for all 4 of us. Not kidding, the kid eats more than all of us in this house and there's never been an orphanage issue there.
Have I mentioned the cuteness factor she's wearing?
The Tongginator earned the nickname "the hobbit" from our friends and neighbors. She ate breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, tea, dinner, supper. She ate copious amounts of food for each meal. It was always healthy food - things even I wouldn't eat.
We fought a failure to thrive diagnosis for awhile (we wanted to avoid a feeding tube), so a dietitian came out to observe for a few days. I charted her food. And the dietitian was SHOCKED at how much the Tongginator ate, especially when she wasn't gaining weight those first two months.
Little Miss sweetness! Learning so much from you friend. Thanks for sharing so much of what's happening in your world with us.
What a cutie she is..love that adorable smile.Miss Meg ate very well when we first arrived home..now she eats like a normal toddler(goes from gorging to just picking).
FWIW, my kiddo does that same once a night scream (only, it's more like every other night now). You'd think someone came up and stabbed her while she was sleeping because it comes from nowhere and it's such an excruciating howl. The first few times she did it I freaked, thinking something HAD to be wrong because babies just don't scream like that for nothing. But by the time I'd calmed down and realized she was still breathing, she was back to sleep. I just call it her nightmares, but I'm not sure what's going on in there... and she doesn't even have a history of being institutionalized (*shrugging shoulders*)
Their sleep patterns are very interesting. I never know what a night at our house may hold and she is a great sleeper.
Tabby regularly packs the grub in like a truck driver. Sure, she has the odd meal where she's too disinterested to eat what we give her, but overall, portions as big as if not bigger than mine. And she is tiny. 15% for weight, 20% for height. She just burns it all off like a hummingbird. I like a kid who eats ... even quite a bit. Makes me feel more comfortable than one who picks.
Sounds like she's healthy as ever to me! My brother's kids were bottomless pits in much the same way and I was always amazed they never puked either! Hope the night time yelps calm and don't become worse or are just simply her nature and don't hold too much meaning. Glad things are going so well!
Yes, we ate a ton. I used to tell her that she had a hollow leg. Food feeding frenzies lasted about three months, and then, serious eating continued for six or so months.
I read somewhere that it takes roughly half the kiddos age at gotcha to "catch-up" Kate went a little beyond that, but by then she was at the height/weight of some of her classmates. (compared to her being much smaller than where they were at 15 months at gotcha.)
I sometimes forget that other kids don't eat an adult's size portion of oatmeal. When I'm with some other kids, I'm amazed at how little they eat!
C
LOVE the picture!!! She looks like she is having a bawl!!!
My daughter is from S. Korea, so she was only in the baby home/orphanage for a month, but she has been a food freak since she came home a year ago. She absolutely FREAKS when she sees food, and if it is not on her tray the second she sees it, or smells it - we're in trouble. She screams bloody murder. She eats enough for all of us, and I have no idea how she doesn't puke. There are days when we have to cut her off, because the thought of her putting one more bite into her mouth makes me gag.
She is just so stinkin cute!!!! And the outburst are probably just part of the trauma of her whole little life changing, this too shall pass. You are an awesome Mommy, I hope you know that.
Love, Kristy
My daughter Emma waS 2 and 1/2 when she came home. Boy could that little girl eat. Her daddy and I were so worried about her eating too much. Our internation ped said that she had not had the opprotunity to develope a "full stomach" and that she had to learn what being full was. She said that if she over ate that she would throw up and that would show her what being "full" meant. It took my little one 2 YEARS of being home before she finally got sick from over eating. Of course it had to occure during her family day celebration and in a returant full of people.(lol) Now she tells you "my tummy is full to the top, no more please. As for our little boy who we just brought home weeks ago, he eats like crazy too.
My youngest came home at 12 months of age and from day one she had a very "healthy" appetite. Now, at 5.5 years old, she is STILL a bottomless pit. The girl can eat. And eat a lot. And many times during the day. And she only weighs 29 pounds! I was so worried early on that she was eating so much yet not gaining any weight that her pediatrician checked her thyroid and all was fine, of course. I just happen to have a daughter who was blessed with great genes and who can eat me out of house and home ;)
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