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December 19, 2007
Percentiles
Today both boys had check ups. Here's how it went:
Gabriel weighs 35.5 lbs and is 2' 11". He is still maintaining 95% on weight, and has gone from 50% on height, to 66%. If you follow the rule of doubling their height at two then adding two inches...he will be 6 feet tall. (That is also what you get when you average mom's and dad's height, then add two. Are there any other ways to predict height?) He also got a flu shot today. It's pretty tough to hold him down now! They also did a blood test. He was more concerned about the band aid on his finger than the actual finger prick.
(As a side note: It was kind of fun filling out the forms about his developmental milestones. Some of the questions I was supposed to ask him were fun. He was supposed to jump over the piece of paper, but instead he stood beside it and jumped about 6" in the air. He was also supposed to try to draw a straight vertical line...it was more scribbling all over the paper. I laughed a few times with him.)
Jonah weighs a whopping 17 lbs 11 oz! He is 2' 2". He has jumped from 5% on height and weight to 50% on weight and 35% on height. (I guess my thinking that he is long and skinny isn't accurate. He's just so much thinner than Gabriel was.) He is doing everything he is supposed to be doing and then some. I can't believe my baby is 6 months old! He is rolling all over the place. He can get across the living room with no problems. And much to my delight he is starting to hold his bottle.
Also, let it be known that I have reached my nursing goal ans am still going. Before he was born, and in light of how things went with Gabriel, my goal was to make it to 6 months. Even though he is not exclusively breast-fed, he is still doing it. Every day is a triumph for us. I don't plan to give up the night time feedings for a while ( I really like being able to nurse him in bed instead of getting up to fix a bottle at 5 am.) It's almost a game with myself now to see how long I can nurse him. Every time I go to a LLL meeting I think "this could be the last one" and then I get encouraged to keep going. I guess for now my goal could be until he gets teeth (Gabriel didn't get teeth until 10 1/2 months.) I have also been told be a couple of friends that every little bit helps toward being able to nurse the next baby. Hopefully next time it will be even better.
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We're leaving tomorrow for our 2 weeks of holiday traveling. Tomorrow to Nac., Christmas Eve we fly to Chicago, stay there until the 30th, then spend a few days in Ruston/Monroe. It should be fun, but I know it will be tiring. I'm sure I'll have plenty to post about when we return. Until then though....Merry Christmas!
Posted by rachel at December 19, 2007 11:22 PM
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