Just an interesting little question...out of curiosity:
It starts with a statement...and I hope I don't muck this all up.....
In the pictures our little girl looks pretty big.
People always think she is many months older than she really is, and when I tell them her age, well, I get very funny looks...and often down right exclamations to the contrary (of the latter, I find it either comical, or offensive, given my mood that day)
I have heard from a couple of people that their children looked quite big in the pictures they received, and actually were very small when they saw them for the first time in person. This came up again today.
So, if you happen to be out there in internet blog land, and fall upon this post, and you have "been there, done that" please share a comment.
I know and understand that orphans normally are smaller due to the lack of nutrition they have received, or "quality of" aforementioned nutrition; and perhaps lack of movement (especially in the orphanages) I also know they tend to bounce back very quickly; I have even heard a couple of weeks can show marked progress.
(note that our daughter is in a foster home and has been for many months)
I am just so curious about the photo vs. reality thing, as far as update pictures received; because our BEAUTIFUL BABY does look big for her age in the photos..
I do believe she is the age we have been told. I just wonder about people's experiences with photos vs. reality.
Thanks in advance. :)
ps- our adoption doctor says she is "soundly within normal ranges" when reviewing the medical updates, head circ., etc...
Hi Lynette,
ReplyDeleteI saw you comment on my blog. I am curious about the same thing because our daughter looks big in her photos. I have been told by other people that we'll be surprised how small she is when we see her, that the photos are deceiving. Hopefully we'll travel to get her real soon!
Our son was smaller in person than photos. He was still healthy looking when we got him though. The weights we were given were accurate. It is a good idea to pack a few things in different sizes to cover the first few days. We traveled with families that had not brought the right sizes. Remember the Chinese layer and layer the children. Our son looked like a Michelin man when we got him. Please ask me any questions. Blog bringaustinhome.
ReplyDeleteHow old is she said to be? I don't know how old to know if she looks it or not. She does look chunky in the face--my guy had rolls on his hips and dimples in his wrists when we got him in China!! He was in a good orphanage and clearly was eating enough to actually be overweight when we got him. He was 85th percentile for weight (40th for height) when we brought him home! He appeared bigger in the photos we had of him than he actually was. But his measurements were quite accurate in his case.
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DeleteThank you all. The support is wonderful, it helps. (I have been enjoying RQ forums recently which help a lot. I am LynFitz over there) Jacqueline, I just made a new blog post where you can see her better; and the images show her at about 10 months old (give or take) though she is turning one now so she is probably even a little bigger now in reality. Please go ahead and refresh to the blog home page so you can see Phoebe's pics. :) (warning, I am a feeling a little down tonight, so it came out in the post.)
ReplyDeleteFirst of all- she is ADORABLE!!! and in a whole 'lotta clothes. For us- our D looked about "average" in photos but in real life she was smaller than average. Not under nourished- just small and even now, 5 years later she is still small- her little sister is actually taller and heavier despite being 20 months younger. I would have thought your DD was about 10-12 months based on the photos- but honestly you will be amazed at how many layers of clothes she will have on so it is sometimes not possible to tell size in photos (and my D's head looks huge in some-but not all- of her China photos and it is a nice normal shaped head that fits perfectly with her size) Photos can be misleading.
ReplyDeleteYour little girl is ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!! my 1st dd we thought looked big in pictures (nothing around her to gage her size though) but was pretty small.
ReplyDeleteDD#2 was exactly the size we thought she was.. TINY! Actually, we feared how skinny she might be because she was so padded up in her pictures and we had no idea how skinny she would really look. We were in shock the 1st time we held her and especially the 1st time we undressed her. No fat at all.
Your little one though looks to have plenty of chunk =)
Our little girl was really that big...21lb at 10 months. She's second tallest in her class right now too - towers over most boys even. Not quite 5 and she's wearing size 6 clothes - for the length.
ReplyDeleteWe called her "peanut" during the wait. Once we got her stats, a guy at work renamed her "uber-peanut"...and people told us "no way" would she be that big. Yeah, she just fit in the clothes we took to China...
Not all babies are tiny...and your pretty little girl maynot be!
Our little girl was really that big...21lb at 10 months. She's second tallest in her class right now too - towers over most boys even. Not quite 5 and she's wearing size 6 clothes - for the length.
ReplyDeleteWe called her "peanut" during the wait. Once we got her stats, a guy at work renamed her "uber-peanut"...and people told us "no way" would she be that big. Yeah, she just fit in the clothes we took to China...
Not all babies are tiny...and your pretty little girl maynot be!
Our little one was much much smaller than we thought. We adopted through NSN and our little one was 10 months old on gotcha day but was wearing 3 month clothing the pictures we had of her made her look huge compared to her actual size. Also take into consideration that she is odds are bundled in 4 layers of clothing in your pics so she looks a lot bigger than she really is. In China they weigh the babies with everything on so those 4 layers are included in her weight. But your little one has been in foster care so she may very well be the size they are telling you. Fostered babies tend to get more nutrition than those in the orphanage and grow better. Either way she is beautiful!! Cannot wait to follow the rest of your journey!
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