We took Alex to the doctor for her three month checkup. He looked her over and announced that she was perfect all around and totally normal. He then measures her head diameter and height and weight.
The doctor then pulls out a chart and looks up what percentile the baby falls into. He announces that she is in the 50th percentile for head size and the 25th percentile for height and weight at 3 months (11 pounds 14 oz and 22 and 5/8 inches tall).
She was also in the 25th percentile for her 2 month checkup and although the doctor said there was nothing to worry about Continue reading ‘3 month baby checkup – 25th percentile growth??’
My wife came home recently with a DVD under her arm. She said it can tell you what your baby’s cries mean and can help you understand what the baby needs to be happy and stop crying.
My first thought is that this is some hippy touchy feely crap that is either going to be nonsense and incredibly boring or just complete garbage. I figured if there was any truth to any of it, we’d have heard about it by now since people have been writing books and teaching baby classes forever.
Well, I was to be proven wrong.
The DVD sat on top of the TV for a week or two. My wife would mention that we should watch it from time to time, but I would always find something – anything else to do to avoid having to suffer through it.
Finally, wifey adamantly declares one day that we are watching it and that’s it. I reluctantly pop it into the DVD player and we watch.
The DVD starts by telling the story of the woman who made it. Basically, she discovered as a kid that she has a photographic memory for sounds. When she had a baby, she started to see patterns in the different cries her baby let out. She was then able to further identify the cries by noting what made the baby happy for each particular cry.
She found that all babies have at least five distinct cries for things such as hunger, tired, burp me, Continue reading ‘What Do Your Baby’s Cries Mean?’
I woke up the other morning and went to check on baby Alex as usual. Well, there was a suprise that day. She had somehow rotated herself ninety degrees so her feet were pointing toward the side of the crib and had wiggled herself down until her legs were sticking through the crib slats.
I don’t just mean her legs were sticking through a little, I mean all the way to her thighs. At first I was kind of freaked out about it, but when I checked on her, I realized that she was fine and had not hurt herself.
When I mentioned it to my wife, she said “Oh yeah! I forgot to tell you, she did that yesterday too”. Now, I know the baby didn’t hurt herself since the slats were far enough apart, not to cut off her circulation or anything like that, but I was still worried that she would eventually hurt herself.
It then suddenly occurred to me why people put bumpers in cribs. We didn’t have any bumpers since the doctor and the Infant CPR class we took said they are dangerous due to suffocation possibilities. So now I was stumped. I needed bumpers, but am hyper protective of little Alexandria and I wasn’t Continue reading ‘Baby Alex sticks her legs through crib slats’