Visit to the Dr., Healthy Weight, Diet and More!

Just as much as little J, I too, dread the visit to the doctors. We had to take her in to check on her weight gain and do a test to check for anemia. Thank fully both turned out to be positive. She is a slow weight gainer and not anemic. She needs to gain a bit more but I'm thinking with all that running around activity how on earth she could store anything. Like me she is a very poor and fussy eater. Rice, noodles and bread are among her favourites but she does not eat vegetables and dislikes milk. The doc wants us to give her more milk instead of juice. She is picking up now and I hope it improves.

It is also believed that when you have feeding problems with your children you must feed poor children and do some charity. So yes Insha Allah I'm going to try that.

J was very brave at her finger prick and didn't cry. Dad held her while I distracted her with a book We have been asked to change our diet from rice to other alternatives because of the cause of diabetes increasing in the part of the worls where we are from. (Ok I need to do my research on this fact she stated) Rice is our staple food and we eat it almost every day missing may be just once or twice a week. But if it means prevention of a disease (which both mine and my husband's family suffer from) we are ready to change it. They want us to switch to whole grain. Thank fully J likes oats. We plan to switch to chapathi sand pasta. Whole wheat bread is good too. The only problem with these food is that they are rarely good tasting but that will have to be sacrificed for the sake of better health!

Until next time that's the progress on our 27 month old big sister to be!