Wednesday, April 18, 2007

2 week check up--growing like a weed


Eddie's buddy Eli's dad took both of them to the park on Saturday so we could have some time. Den says this photo looks like an album cover.
Cookie and Eddie started to work on a craft project--Eddie is putting glue on a shoebox. I must have taken too many pictures because Ed finally came running over to me and didn't want to finish the project.
So far it's been fine to be around all the time when Cookie is here, but I bet she'll be happy to have me go back to work.

Visited the Doctor today for Josie's 2 week check up. In a nutshell, she's doing great. She weighed in at a whopping 7.64 pounds, which is almost a full pound more than her birthweight. And we didn't even cheat by feeding her right before her weigh-in. By two weeks they want you to have regained your birthweight. Dr. was extremely pleased--based on our imprecise weighing at home, we thought she might be about 7.5 pounds, but they always seem to weigh more at home than at the Doctor's. This put her at about 25% for weight.

She had grown 1 and 1/3 inches in 2 weeks to measure 20 and 1/3 inch, which is 50th%. Her head is growing and measured 13.5 inches, for 25%. Doctor felt they were good measurements.

He reassured us that her big brother can be pretty rough with her and short of dropping her on her head on a tile floor, she should be okay. Ed has been great--extremely gentle, but sometimes I can't tell how hard he is squeezing a hand or foot, or how hard he is pushing on her head. She never protests, so I guess that will be my guide.

She's been getting a little gasey, so I'm crossing my fingers it's just something I need to alter with my diet. I just have to figure out what that would be causing her to be awake from 11pm -2am every night with a combination of gas and hunger pains.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just watch that Eddie doesn't do like Lance and try to feed his sibling a dorrito. I think Caleb was closer to 2 months old when he tried it. I'm glad he is fairly gentle, he should do what he sees you doing. Glad to hear she is growing well and gaining weight.

K said...

"She's been getting a little gasey..." Gee, somebody from our family getting a little gassy? Shocking!