{15 Months! He's such a fun baby! And he's cute too! :)}
{My sleeping angel after his well baby visit}
My baby is growing so fast! Andrew had his 15 month well baby visit this morning. Can't say it was an exceptionally great appointment - they switched doctors on us without consulting. Not very professional or courteous in my opinion. This particular doctor had some crazy sense of parenting "tips" and left me irritated at the end of his visit (and thankfully I voiced that we would NOT be seeing that provider again)!
Aside from that, all went well! (Besides finding out that he has a DOUBLE ear infection from his current cold. Poor baby! I had no idea!) He was ALL over the baby scale - wiggling and crying for me to pick him up and reaching for me, so they had to guess about how much he weighed and they came up with 20.8 pounds. But seriously, I'm a small person so the odds are that my children aren't going to be huge! So his weight puts him in the 5th percentile - down 5% since his 12 month well baby.
BUT he's grown a TON in the past few months, now measuring 30.75 inches putting him in the 50th percentile in height - up from his last appointment which was 29 inches (24%). Last month he learned to walk and has him very busy around here and burning calories more than crawling. Which is probably why he's focused a lot of his recent growth in height and not in weight. Regardless of their percentages, he's a healthy boy. And sometimes I wonder what they base their information on when calculating the percentages. Some babies have got to be huge - no offense. Both John and I can't imagine a lot of babies being a lot bigger than Andrew's weight and height). His head still measures the same: 18 1/2 cm.
Before we left the doctors, he received 3 lovely shots and orders for routine blood work to check CBC and iron. I think I'll let him rest and start to feel better before I do that. Probably something that can wait until next week! But the good news is: HE'S HEALTHY AND GROWING! :)
Now....onto the fun part: losing the pacifier and bottle! I'm excited to get this done with. He's thankfully not hugely attatched to either one, but I have a strange feeling that the pacifier, which I only give to him at naps/night, is going to be the hardest one to lose. I've been offering him a cup of milk at meals for some time now but he'll only drink like one ounce from it the entire day. One thing at a time, right?
My strategy in order is to: 1) cut out the before bedtime bottle, 2) cut out the 2 bottles during the day and only offering a cup of milk instead, 3) chuck the pacifiers. Forget the bottle and pacifier fairies that some people use. This boy could honestly care less - let alone he won't understand what a bottle and pacifier fairy is anyways! :) I'm guessing in the next month or so, he'll be free from these things and life will be so much easier without them!
Aside from that, all went well! (Besides finding out that he has a DOUBLE ear infection from his current cold. Poor baby! I had no idea!) He was ALL over the baby scale - wiggling and crying for me to pick him up and reaching for me, so they had to guess about how much he weighed and they came up with 20.8 pounds. But seriously, I'm a small person so the odds are that my children aren't going to be huge! So his weight puts him in the 5th percentile - down 5% since his 12 month well baby.
BUT he's grown a TON in the past few months, now measuring 30.75 inches putting him in the 50th percentile in height - up from his last appointment which was 29 inches (24%). Last month he learned to walk and has him very busy around here and burning calories more than crawling. Which is probably why he's focused a lot of his recent growth in height and not in weight. Regardless of their percentages, he's a healthy boy. And sometimes I wonder what they base their information on when calculating the percentages. Some babies have got to be huge - no offense. Both John and I can't imagine a lot of babies being a lot bigger than Andrew's weight and height). His head still measures the same: 18 1/2 cm.
Before we left the doctors, he received 3 lovely shots and orders for routine blood work to check CBC and iron. I think I'll let him rest and start to feel better before I do that. Probably something that can wait until next week! But the good news is: HE'S HEALTHY AND GROWING! :)
Now....onto the fun part: losing the pacifier and bottle! I'm excited to get this done with. He's thankfully not hugely attatched to either one, but I have a strange feeling that the pacifier, which I only give to him at naps/night, is going to be the hardest one to lose. I've been offering him a cup of milk at meals for some time now but he'll only drink like one ounce from it the entire day. One thing at a time, right?
My strategy in order is to: 1) cut out the before bedtime bottle, 2) cut out the 2 bottles during the day and only offering a cup of milk instead, 3) chuck the pacifiers. Forget the bottle and pacifier fairies that some people use. This boy could honestly care less - let alone he won't understand what a bottle and pacifier fairy is anyways! :) I'm guessing in the next month or so, he'll be free from these things and life will be so much easier without them!
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