Caroline is weighing in at 14 lbs 14 oz (still hanging out in the 6%)
and her length is 27 1/2 (47% percentile)
At our 9 month wellness visit with our pediatrician we were given many "assignments" to take on.
1. Try to stop feeding her at night.
2. Let her try other solid foods besides puffs
3. Work on her standing skills while holding onto furniture or a toy. (this last one was more of my decision)
So, the pediatrician was very concerned that Caroline is throwing up her Puffs. He feels because they do dissolve and become sticky they may be sticking to her tongue and that is causing her to gag. So, as soon as we came home from the office, I gave Caroline toast. She LOVED it! Did not gag once. Here I thought if she was gagging on Puffs she wasn't ready for any regular foods. He also recommended that she see a specialist for this, which I tried to argue the necessity (we already see a specialist for her hips, how many specialists does a girl need?) So I have to call him back and tell him all about the toast success. We'll see if we go or not.
Dr. Traeger was also very concerned with the fact that Caroline rarely sleeps through the night. Um, hello! me too! So, he recommended letting her cry before I zombie walk my way into her room at night. I seriously cannot remember how we did this with Liam. It is so hard! It took about a week but we discovered that I can no longer go in her room at night. She is aware that its me and just gets really upset that I'm not picking her up to feed her. So, now I get to lay in bed while Evan goes into her room and either soothes her back to sleep or changes her diaper and lays her back down. I think this is great. Evan probably doesn't but I have been getting up with her for 9 months. It's his turn.
While filling out the paperwork they give you at every appointment to see if your child can do certain things I realized that I was marking a lot of Not sure or No answers. Especially in the gross motor development category. Can your child stand up holding onto furniture. No. Can your child drop a toy while standing, bend down, pick up the toy without falling. No.
Uh oh. Caroline! Look at this sheet! I think you're supposed to be doing this stuff.
So, I am finding out that because Caroline is so easy going it's very convenient to sit her down or put her on her belly and either play with Liam or do the other million things that need to happen in our house. Evan and I are now putting more of an effort into slowing down and helping her work on those gross motor skills.
[By the way, Dr. Traeger is not at all worried. He put her up on the examination table on her belly to see if she tried to move around and she did exactly that plus try to scoot towards his lap top computer]
New skills: Turning the pages in her books and opening flaps, pincer grasp, turning in circles while on her belly and getting up on her hands and knees, rocking then lunging forward so that she does a belly flop. Standing up while holding onto a toy with assistance.
Caroline nurses 4 times a day and 0-1 times a night. She is beginning to sleep from around 8pm-6:30 am, sometimes waking once but then going right back to sleep after a diaper change or some soothing from Evan. She still takes her 2 naps during the day.
Caroline now has 6 teeth, 3 on the bottom and 3 on the top.
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| Blueberry face! |
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