Category: Pediatrician

You had your 1 year old appointment today. This time you were at the Keep Austin Weird room, which had lots of colorful pictures on the walls, beads hanging from the light fixture, flowers and smiley faces all over the place (hippie room, Daddy said). You were a bit scared by Dr. Chang and it only got worse when he tried to examine you. You cried and cried, clinged to me and it sounded like he was killing you when he was looking inside of your ears and listening to your lungs. He gave you a Mickey Mouse sticker but you didn’t really care, you kept staring at him the whole time and didn’t want to go near him. You measured 21lbs (45%) and 30 1/4 inches (75-90%), and your head measurement was 45.8 cm (50-75%). All very good and you are developing great! You had 3 shots: the MMR, Chickenpox and Hepatitis A. You cried even before the nurse gave you the shot, but stopped shortly after.

You had your 9 month old appointment and the new doctor told us that you are doing very well. You’re 19lbs3oz and 28”, and hit all the milestones for your age. He is not concerned that you don’t have any teeth yet, he said he will worry when you are 15 months old – until then, it’s fine. You had a couple of shots and a blood test to measure iron levels, which are very good (probably thanks to your iron fortified cereal breakfast every morning).

We took you to the Pediatrician’s office so you could get the shot that was missing at your 6 month appointment. We got there, the nurse weighed you and told us to get ready for the shot. I was expecting you to start screaming like you always did, but this time you didn’t even flinch. I was shocked! You were just laying there, as if saying “what, mom, what’s the big deal?”

You are 4 months old today. We took you to the Pediatrician for another round of shots and to check on your growth / development. You weighted 14lbs13oz and measured 24 inches long. Dr. Howson said you’re doing great! You were in a great mood, smiling and responding to the physical examination very well, you just got upset when the nurse gave you the shots. You cried for a little bit, nursed and was already sleeping on your carseat when we left. Your next appointment is in February, you will be turning 6 months old then and we’ll talk all about food.

Your 2 month visit was great, you were in a very good mood, smiling to the doctor, cooing and moving non stop. You weighed 12lbs7oz and were 23 3/4 inches long. Dr Howsen said you have good neck control and that we can put you facing outward in the Baby Bjorn, we know you’ll like that. She also told us you have to sleep more during the day, no surprise there, the problem will be trying to make that happen. Then you had your 4 shots, 2 in each leg, and you cried really loud – it was the loudest we heard you so far, poor thing. At least it was very quick and mommy nursed you right after. By the time we left you were already smiling to daddy in the car seat.

Today you are 1 month old and we took you to the pediatrician to see how you’re doing. We knew you had gained a lot of weight (we could feel that in our arms!) and we noticed how much you had grown (your clothes are fitting much better now), but we were still surprised when she said the numbers: 9lbs11oz and 22 inches! 3lbs more than when you were born and 3 1/2 inches longer! Everything else is fine and you passed the “holding your head” test with flying colors. You also had the second shot of the hepatitis vaccine, which you hated, of course. And not to break the tradition, you peed on the scale again.

Today we took Julia for her 7 day visit to get another PKU done.

She’s also got weighted: 7 lbs 2 oz

Today we took Julia to the Pediatrician (normally Dr. Howsen, who was on vacation so we saw Dr. Wu) for a 5 day post partum jaundice check. She was normal.

She was weighted and already gaining weight, even above her birth weight: 6 lbs 13 oz.