Almost 5 weeks old already

This little girl is two days shy of 5 weeks old. She has grown 3 inches since birth. Unfortunately, she hasn't gained an awful lot of weight since then, but we are working on it.

Despite the metabolic geneticist saying she is completely normal, I feel like her weight gain (or lack thereof) is related to her mild galactosemia. She seems to do better with a bottle or two of soy formula a day, so we have decided to augment our breastfeeding.

 She also seems to have more energy with the addition of the soy, further confirming our intuition that her lack of enzymes are slowing her down.

Our midwife sees us four times after birth, which is amazing. She was the only 'expert' that also thought Poppie was a little behind in weight and muscle tone (Nick, my mom and I have had our radars up, but not overwhelming worried about it). The Pediatrician and the Geneticist both said she is on the growth charts and therefore just fine (of course she is on the growth charts, she was a big baby at birth!). Our midwife, who is very natural-based and pro-breastfeeding was the one who mentioned we should 'experiment' with the addition of soy formula and she how she does.

Poppie is a lucky little girl to have the whole spectrum of care: from intuitive, to more natural, to the western-trained specialists and experts. With all of those different minds working towards her optimal health, I am sure this girl will be just fine.