It is confirmed: Evelyn is a healthy, growing, enormous baby girl!
As I'm sure you all recall, at her two-month check-up Evelyn weighed in at 11 pounds 5 oz, which was the 60th percentile. Her height was the 50th percentile and her head was 55th. All very average.
Well this month she weighs in at a whopping 15 pounds, 8.5 oz! No wonder my elbows hurt from carrying her around! That is one big baby! She's now in the 95th percentile for weight, but she also got tall, coming in at the 90th percentil for length. Her head is 75th percentile. I guess she's getting enough to eat!
The doc didn't say anything about teething. Evie has a cold but it hasn't moved to her chest so she just has to suffer, or we can pour salt water up her nostrils to clear things out (yeah...I'm sure she'd love that). And we should wait to start her on solid foods until 5.5 months. We also need to get better about tummy time. We've been trying. I don't know why we are such slackers on that one! She is developmentally on track or ahead in everything else but pushing her chest up off the ground when laying on her stomach. That is total parent laziness. But we will get better! Maybe it will be easier once we move, have room to put her down and don't live on the grossest carpets in the world. But we'll do better, starting today!
I just can't believe how big she has gotten. She was less than 6 pounds when we brought her home from the hospital. Now she's almost 16 pounds. That is amazing. What a great baby!
1 comment:
Cool, congrats that she is so big! We have big babies over here too.
Yeah, about the salt water thing, it sucks, but it totally works. You can either take a dropper and put your own mixture of salt water up her nose, but we found it is best just to buy the stuff. It is just saline drops (not the cold/runny nose drops). That way when she is lying on her back you just tip it in and she doesn't know what hit her :)
Good luck with the move!
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