Comments on: curious things about L

By: jeongsoo

jeongsoo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:53:33 +0000

as for your L’s height, I hope you feed her(and your bio daughter) more whole fat foods. Especially whole milk, yogurt(w/ cream top), liver and egg yolk.

These foods provide a good source of natural choline, vitamin a/d , and other fat soluble vitamins. Notice that they’re all from animal sources. This plus a healthy amount of green leafy veggies are an unbeatable combo for height growth.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:31:30 +0000

My friend’s daughters (bio) are both slow growers. They started out as 8+ pound babies, but now my daughter (born 6 weeks after her second) weighs 22 pounds, and hers weighs 16. Her daughter outweighed mine at birth. And both are perfectly healthy!

And the lump on the head? People don’t part their hair down the middle much anymore anyway.

By: abebech

abebech — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:03:06 +0000

You might be okay with the girly girl thing — my dd wrestles and boxes in pink plastic high heels. And I’m another one who just loves watching the surprise . . .

By: shumei

shumei — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:32:04 +0000

When L gets bigger and starts asking about her bio parents, point out all these traits. When my two girls wonder about their Chinese parents, I tell them to look in the mirror and I point out things that are genetically linked. Also – this year in Science, my older girl had to do the dreaded family genetics paper… ”go home and ask your parents and siblings if they can — curl their tongue, free or attached ear lobes, etc.” I told E that based on what she could do, she’d have some ideas about what her bioparents could do too.
And ‘girliness’ is definately genetic! I have a tomboy and a girly-girl too.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:32:56 +0000

I always love the honesty in your posts and I always seem to find something that hits home….

I also have one bio and one adopted daughter and I’ve had the same type of feelings…. Most of big daughter’s traits can be traced to me, my husband, or someone else in our family…. but with little daughter, I spend hours wondering where she picked up certain traits/preferences and am certain that nature must be trumping nurture…..
and it’s wonderful (keeps me guessing – but wonderful all the same).