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Katie’s 9 month well-visit.

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Weight: 20lbs. 14oz. (was 18 lbs.)—81st percentile
Height: 29-3/4″ (was 28-1/2″)—97th percentile
Head: 17-3/4″ (was 17-1/4″)—79th percentile

For comparison, Owen at 9 months was:
Weight: 22lbs. 10oz. (50–75th percentile)
Height: 30½” (95th percentile)
Head: 26″ (95th percentile) 😯 He really did have a big head!

So they were actually about the same at 6m, but at 9m, she’s smaller! YAY!

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I got to check YES on everything on her milestones sheet, so the doc said she is doing perfectly. She also wasn’t due for any vaccinations, but we apparently missed something at 6m because they were out of it, so she got it today. It was just one quick shot and she cried for two seconds but that was it. GOOD BABY!

Katie’s six-month appointment

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Weight: 18 lbs. (was 15 lbs. 15oz.)—between percentile 75 and 90
Length: 28-1/2″ (was 25-3/4″)—99th percentile
Head: 17-1/4″ (was 16-1/2″)—75th percentile

For comparison, at six months Owen was:
Weight: 19 lbs. 7 oz.—so 1 lb. 7 oz more!
Length: 28-1/2″—the exact same length!

The doctor said everything looks great. She was just ever-so-slightly concerned that she hasn’t started solid foods yet, so suggested we try real foods instead of jarred baby foods (like yogurt puffs, grain puffs, mashed potatoes, avocado, etc.) and if she’s still not eating by 9m, then we should see a specialist. But I’m not worried.

She did really well with her shots—hopefully because I dosed her with Motrin before the appointment. She got two vaccinations and a flu shot (with a booster due in 30 days)…then fell asleep when I was halfway through my Sam’s Club trip.

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Katie’s four-month appointment

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Weight: 15 lbs. 15 oz. (was 13 lbs. 4oz.)—between percentile 75 and 90
Length: 25-3/4″ (was 23-1/2″)—between percentile 75 and 90
Head: 16-1/2″ (first measurement that I have)—between percentile 50 and 75

I prepped her with Ibuprofen this time…and it seems to have helped overall (no bouts of screaming once we got home). However, at the time, it was a different story. First, strangely, she absolutely FREAKED OUT when the doctor checked her ears. Screaming like she’s never screamed before. The doc said everything was fine, so then it was off for the immunizations (another room at the clinic)…where she started screaming as soon as I set her on the table. And then boy did she scream. BOY DID SHE SCREAM. Probably twice as loud and horrific-sounding as when she was getting her ears checked. It definitely made me grateful for what little crying she actually does at home. Then it was over and she stopped crying by the time I had made her next appointment and we were walking out—and she fell asleep by the time we walked to the car. Good baby. 🙂

Just for comparison, at four months, Owen was 16 lbs. 1 oz. (so only 2oz different—and they were using an old skool scale (vs. digital) so it may have been off just a bit) and he was 1/4″ taller…so they are almost identical!

Katie’s 2-month appointment

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Weight: 13 lbs. 4oz.
Length: 23-1/2″

She did just fine at her well-visit…but the immunizations were a different story. Poor kid needed four—three shots and one oral. She actually did okay considering she got roughly poked three times (I know there’s not really a great way to give shots, but the guy seemed really rough…and he completely missed the spots where he had pre-applied the band-aids).

And we learned that apparently the way she deals with shots is to completely CRASH for five hours and then wake up screaming bloody murder and refuse to be comforted for 30 minutes, then CRASH for another nap, then wake up screaming bloody murder and refuse to be comforted for 30 minutes. Fun!

So, the next time? Tylenol BEFORE the shots. I didn’t do it this time because I wanted to see how she was going to react. Thankfully it wasn’t worse.

We’re switching pediatricians.

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Thank you, pediatrician’s office, for LYING to me and telling me we could take Katie to get her two-month immunizations any time around her two-month birthday. Tom took her on base this morning and was told NO, it has to be ON or AFTER her birthday. C’mon, really? It’s six stinking days early. UGH.

So, now, you might be asking, What kind of pediatrician’s office DOESN’T do immunizations?

EXACTLY.

They told me it had to do with us having Tricare insurance, and that we had to go on base to the immunization clinic. So, not having any experience with this (this is our first pediatrician in the area), I assumed that was just how it was done and that was that. But when I was at my doctor recently, I asked about their children’s clinic and if they did immunizations, and she looked at me like I had sprouted a second head and said of course they do.

Interesting.

So, my best guess is that they’re just a really small office and don’t want to keep the stock? Or maybe there’s some sort of sign-up procedure that they don’t want to go through? Who knows. But long story short is I’m switching pediatricians because it’s stupid for me to have all of these monthly appointments for Katie and then still have to go on base to get her immunizations—because the point of going to a civilian doctor was to avoid having to drive on base all the time!

Katie’s one-month appointment

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Unfortunately, I wasn’t quite as enamored with the pediatrician’s office this time. Last time, I got in before my scheduled time. Today? Just over 45 minutes late. With no explanation or apology. :## I’m just hoping it was an off day, as one of the other waiting patients made a comment that they’ve never had to wait before.

So…Katie gained {one ounce shy of} two pounds in the past two weeks! She’s 10 lbs. 13oz.—95th percentile in height and weight, baby.

Lordy. Another Owen in the making…

Weight: 10 lbs. 13 oz!! (was 8 lbs. 14 oz at two weeks)
Height: 21-3/4″ (was 20.5″ at birth)
Head:

I like the pediatrician well enough, but she DIDN’T LISTEN to me today—not a big deal overall, but it was annoying. She asked how much Katie was eating and how often. I said 4-5oz every 2-3 hours EXCEPT at night since she sleeps through the night. So she does the mental calculation half out loud (24 hours / every 3 hours = 8 feedings at 5oz each) and says “So you’re feeding her 40oz a day? That’s too much.” With a definite judgmental-sounding tone.

Um, no.

I repeated that it wasn’t ALL day since she slept through the night. So I pulled out my handy dandy baby tracking app and told her the average daily feeding was 25.6oz, the most per day was 29 and the least per day was 22. Then she was happy. 🙄 So from now on I will just tell her the total average ounces. 😐

But she said overall Katie looked to be doing really well and to just keep doing what we were doing!

Two weeks old!

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Long story short, we no longer have to travel to the base hospital for appointments! When Tom went in to add Katie to our insurance, they asked if we wanted to change our PCM to someone in town and we said YES! (That’s what we initially wanted to do when we moved here but they told us we HAD to be seen on base. Ironically, Tom was dealing with the exact woman he dealt with before that gave him such attitude and she tried to tell him that he could have picked a PCM a year ago when we moved here. But anyway.)

So we only have to drive 15 minutes now and can park about 20 yards from the office (instead of driving 30 minutes and parking 200 yards from the office)…it really does feel like a HUGE difference. The office is small and a bit outdated (i.e. the scale they used to weigh Katie was an old-fashioned one where you slide the bars to get it to balance instead of the digital one at the hospital that takes three readings and averages them)…but the staff and doctor were nice and it was quick and easy and I’m glad we made the change.

So, Katie’s stats. For reference:

She was born 8 lbs. 1 oz.
She left the hospital at 7 lbs. 12 oz.
At her one-day check-up she was 7 lbs. 6oz.
At her three-day check-up she was 7 lbs. 11 oz.
At her two-week check-up…she was 8 lbs. 14 oz!!

I didn’t think about it until after we left that they didn’t measure her length or her head…but maybe they don’t do that until the one-month appointment. I just chalked it up to something else I don’t remember, and will make a note of it for her next appointment.