Healthy Vegetarian Toddler

We had the 18-month check-up earlier this week, and N. is officially a healthy toddler. She measured in at 90th percentile for height and 40th for weight, so she is tall and thin like her dad! She easily passed her milestones and enjoyed coloring with crayons on the exam table.

I asked the pediatrician if we should be concerned about iron, given the vegetarian diet, and she expressed her opinion that N.'s healthy pink color and obvious energy level gave her no concerns about iron deficiency. (I do give a half-milligram of iron supplement a couple of times per week, in addition to trying to serve iron-rich foods on a regular basis.)

Although I believe that a vegetarian diet is perfectly healthy, it's still always nice to have it confirmed by an actual M.D.

11 Weeks

Our vegetarian (breastfed) baby continues to grow! She weighed 11 lbs 4 oz at her 2-month check-up, continuing at the 50th percentile that she's been at all along. We are pleased.

I recently had a 3-day hospital stay, including two surgeries under general anesthesia, and managed to keep my milk supply strong despite a large loss of blood. (The surgeries were to repair damage caused by childbirth -- I had a uterine inversion and some accompanying issues.) I like to think that having a good diet with iron-rich vegetarian foods helps me to produce good milk!

6 Weeks and Growing

My baby is now six weeks old, and it seems that a vegetarian diet is just fine for breastfeeding. She weighed a whopping nine pounds even at her one-month checkup, and we're pretty sure she's over ten now! She's also grown more than two inches in length. She grows out of clothes so quickly that we don't have time to wear them all!

I haven't had much time for posting recipes lately but hope to be back to it soon. In the meantime, I'm eating lots of: Cheerios, oatmeal, spaghetti, beans, apples, and cheese.