I tend to post about things that bother me that I can't bug my husband about. That being said, I have to put a quick post up about my sister-in-law because it's really bothering me.
She has a baby (I guess it's my nephew, though I believe a DNA test would say otherwise since her erm... exploits... are well-known in the family). The baby is 5 months old and it is failing to thrive. I asked her about it a little bit - what exactly was going on and whatnot. She says the baby has horrible reflux that's causing it to not gain weight.
Well, over the course of Thanksgiving and now Christmas, I can say with some certainty that the reflux is not the problem, but rather that its mother is. I have yet to see her give the child a bottle. She was breastfeeding, but that didn't work out with her older 2 kids either because her "milk is bad". Her diet is pretty much crap and that could be why.
Anyway, not giving a baby that's failing to thrive any sort of food in a 3 or 4 hour time period is kind of extreme. At 5 months old, the baby weights 10 or 11 pounds. That's crazy! On top of not feeding the baby, when he started crying hysterically and looking hungry she didn't do anything at all! She just sat across the room and let grandma deal with him. I didn't see a bottle in the diaper bag, so they may not have even had one with them. I'm just amazed that she can think it's ok to not feed a child because of his age, even though he's the size of a much younger baby.
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