Kaiana had her 6 month old checkup this week. She handled the shots pretty well. She was mad when she got them, but as we were walking out of the exam room, she calmed down pretty quickly. She's still pretty tiny, though. She weighs 14 lbs and is 24 1/8 in long. The nurse commented that she's on the small side (which I already realized) so I decided to look up her percentiles on the World Health Organization website.
For length for age, she is under the 3rd percentile. For weight for age, she is around the 15th percentile. Pretty crazy, huh? But then for weight for length, she is in the 85th percentile. She looks pretty proportional, so that doesn't really surprise me. She's actually grown a lot lately, she's much bigger than she used to be, but it's weird to think that she still weighs so little! The nurse asked me about her activity level and how many diapers she wets per day (for those of you who don't know, that's the main way that they gauge if a baby is eating enough) and decided that she's just little, not unhealthy. I already knew that, of course. :-)
In other news, she started really crawling yesterday. I didn't see it, but she was trying to get to the bathroom and Daniel caught her actually crawling rather than just scooting around on her tummy. She certainly wants to be on the move!
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Yay for crawlers!! You know, they say (whoever 'THEY' are) that the longer a baby crawls, the better reader that baby will become! Much like her mother?...
Glad the shots went well, it's always a little heart wrenching to see your baby hurting, but it's worth it in the long run (to me anyway).
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