4 month appointment stats

[renbee]

Had our appointment today!

Birth: 7 lbs 4 oz
2 Months: 11 lbs 14 oz
4 Months: 14 lbs 15 oz

Doctor thought everything looked good! He is pretty much following his growth curves, between 25 and 50th percentile in weight and 10th and 25th percentile in height.

I asked about solids and he said we could start anywhere between 4-6 months. I think we will hold off until closer to 6 months, I'm not in a hurry.

[RNCrystal]

Birth:
7lbs 3oz 20.5 in long
2 month:
10lbs 3oz and 23.5 in long
4 month
13.5lbs and 25.75 in long
Appointment went well...they say she's looking great! Still 90% percentile for height and 30% for weight...tall and skinny like Dad! Talked about starting solids but think I'll wait until at least 5 months....we will see. She's been a little cranky today but not to bad...cried pretty hard with shots but it was short lived.

[richaroodo]

Aug 30, 2016 15:41:24 GMT -5 heartbot said:

I was going back through to see if anyone else's baby had put on 10# since birth. Glad to see richaroodo's little boy is in the chunkamunk club as well.

Lol. R is HUGE! The pediatrician make joke about him being a 4 month old stuck in a 6 month old's body.

[sammie]

Stats: 16 lbs 3 oz and 26.5 inches

Stats from birth: 8 lbs 3 oz and 21.5 inches

Questions/Comments/Concerns: His head side preference stresses me out but the doctor doesn't seem concerned. I'll just keep working on it myself. The doctor wasn't worried about him not taking a bottle yet either and said he'll figure it out when I go back to work.

ETA How did shots go? Barely cried in the office, but we shall see how tonight goes...

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Aug 30, 2016 15:11:25 GMT -5 heartbot said:

Aug 17, 2016 11:05:14 GMT -5 @east said:

Apparently they don't swaddle babies here because she made a comment about it being an American thing and to make sure we weren't still swaddling her. We're supposed to make a pillow out of lentils to help position her head/neck properly. It's just so funny how different it can be around the world, the appointment cost $13 and she didn't have any special pillow to sell (granted, I wish I could have just bought her lentil pillow) rather a recommendation to buy 2 kilos of lentils and sew it into a small pillow shape.

This is so interesting! Is the lentil pillow due to the torticollis or something everyone does? 

It was for the torticollis and to even out the shape of her head but my friend's sewing machine would not work and now she sleeps on her belly at night so we never actually used it. I'm not 100% sure but I think they just use pillows for babies here though because her first question was "what kind of pillow do you use?" I told her that in the U.S. we are told to give babies absolutely nothing in their crib.

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Aug 30, 2016 19:42:03 GMT -5 heartbot said:

Aug 30, 2016 19:21:42 GMT -5 @east said:

It was for the torticollis and to even out the shape of her head but my friend's sewing machine would not work and now she sleeps on her belly at night so we never actually used it. I'm not 100% sure but I think they just use pillows for babies here though because her first question was "what kind of pillow do you use?" I told her that in the U.S. we are told to give babies absolutely nothing in their crib.

Wow. And no swaddles. How do they get babies to sleep?!

I will ask at her PT appointment next week!