Alden looks so much like Kerstin in this shot... uncanny...
We had a 6 month check up today. Thankfully, we saw his normal pediatrician this time (and not Dr. McKill-Joy, thank goodness). His regular pediatrician pronounced him "perfect in every way" and she said not to sweat his small stature. Alden is 15 lbs 8 oz (20%), 26.75 inches long (50%) and still has an enormous head (45.5 cm, 90%). He was very stoic taking his shots today. He only cried while it was happening, but stopped as soon as I scooped him up. We spent the rest of the day hanging at home and playing in the activity seat that Karen gave him. It has a bouncy platform and 360 degrees of colorful stimulation. It overwhelms me a little bit, but Alden seems to think it's just about right.
He's started licking his lower jaw and gums a whole lot lately, and is still drooling gallons. All signs point to teething (and have been pointing there for over a month now), but nothing is coming through yet, so I've started to doubt that I'll be able to tell when it's actually going to happen. His doctor said that she didn't feel anything in the gums yet, but teeth could happen any day now. Mercifully, she said that the lower teeth are covered by the tongue when he feeds. It's the emergence of the upper teeth that I'm worried about, but I think that's a few more months off. Alden tried bananas this week (thumbs up) and cooked carrots last week (thumbs down, mostly). Later this week we'll try applesauce.
Alden looks so much like Kerstin in this shot... uncanny...
We had a 6 month check up today. Thankfully, we saw his normal pediatrician this time (and not Dr. McKill-Joy, thank goodness). His regular pediatrician pronounced him "perfect in every way" and she said not to sweat his small stature. Alden is 15 lbs 8 oz (20%), 26.75 inches long (50%) and still has an enormous head (45.5 cm, 90%). He was very stoic taking his shots today. He only cried while it was happening, but stopped as soon as I scooped him up. We spent the rest of the day hanging at home and playing in the activity seat that Karen gave him. It has a bouncy platform and 360 degrees of colorful stimulation. It overwhelms me a little bit, but Alden seems to think it's just about right.
He's started licking his lower jaw and gums a whole lot lately, and is still drooling gallons. All signs point to teething (and have been pointing there for over a month now), but nothing is coming through yet, so I've started to doubt that I'll be able to tell when it's actually going to happen. His doctor said that she didn't feel anything in the gums yet, but teeth could happen any day now. Mercifully, she said that the lower teeth are covered by the tongue when he feeds. It's the emergence of the upper teeth that I'm worried about, but I think that's a few more months off. Alden tried bananas this week (thumbs up) and cooked carrots last week (thumbs down, mostly). Later this week we'll try applesauce.
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