Why is he gaining so slow?

Sharon, i think it’s pretty normal for weight gain to slow around that age. Though it doesn’t make it any easier, especially when it’s a refluxer, I think we’re always counting calories and worried about intake. I think that many of your reasons are likely accurate. Also, they tend to be more active around that age, so they just burn so much more and it’s harder to keep the pounds on. Sounds like he is doing great otherwise. Hang in there.

Agreed – at that age, my nieces and nephews and friends babies all
slowed down to little or no weight gain – they are just so mobile!

Hi Sharon –

Just to agree with everyone else, when we were at the GI doctor the other day she mentioned that in the first year kids tend to gain an average of 20 grams a day, but in the second year it drops to 10! Obviously they don’t gain that every day – like what Stacey said happened with Hailey – but the average gain is 1/2 what they gain in the first year so that’s a huge difference. I wouldn’t worry – if he’s getting longer that shows he’s growing, and we definitely find that Owen will get long and skinny for a while and then he’ll chunk up a bit before getting long and skinny again – I think it all just happens in phases.