XP: Wait, what? 4 month checkup already??

DrRx

Today we had Adalyn's 4 month well-checkup appointment with the pediatrician.  She tipped the scales at 8 pounds 4 ounces (3.76kg), which was an increase of almost 1/2 pound (200 grams) in just 1 week! Her length and head circumference stayed pretty much the same,  but that can be normal due to it only being a week.  She is still less than 2% percentile, but her pedi said that she is following her own growth curve very well and isn't concerned at all.

Her pedi said that we can also start trying to feed her rice cereal with a spoon once a day at our discretion.  She said that she may not really be able to do it since she may not have the eating reflex down, but that it's worth a try.  If not, she said to give her the rice cereal in the bottle to get her body used to it.  She said that at 6 months she would really like to start Adalyn on vegetables.  I can't believe that this is already happening! I don't know if we'll start it tonight (since she got her shots today), but I'll report back when I do!

She got 2 immunizations today, and she was such a trooper! All morning I felt guilty because she would look at me with such contentment when I was feeding her a bottle, and all I could think was that I was going to take her to get shots and she had no clue!   She cried her pouty mouth cry for less than 1 minute, and wanted to be held instead of in the carrier (until we got to the car), but other than that did pretty well.  She's laying on me right now, somewhat wrapped in the Moby wrap, and is sucking away on her pacifier sleeping soundly.

Melicakes

Great update and how cute is that onesie?!!!

jesselayne8

Glad she is doing well!! Although I do have to give your pedi a side eye for starting solid at 3weeks adjusted. 

militarywife2b

Go Adalyn sounds like she is a strong little trooper!!! Wow 4 months already time is flying.

DrRx

jesselayne8:

Glad she is doing well!! Although I do have to give your pedi a side eye for starting solid at 3weeks adjusted. 

I should say that she told us to do 1 to 1.5 teaspoon of rice cereal in 1 ounce of breastmilk, so it's really thin.  And she just has us doing it once a day and increase to twice a day in a couple of weeks if she tolerates it.  Honestly, the warm rice cereal was about as thick as her neosure. 

We actually did it tonight, and although most of it ended up on her bib and the burp cloth, she did open her mouth wide for the spoon each time and did manage to swallow about 2 or 3 times! 

tarajayne

I can't believe she is 4 months, wow!  Glad to hear she is doing so well Love her onesie also.  Now, hopefully I can finish pharmacy school before she does