Wednesday, October 14, 2009

3 Month Checkup


ALL happy until she got jabs in both fatty thighs.

It was quite painful, according to Dr B. I think she felt worse about the jabs than me.

Tough love.

Then an oral vaccine - her first taste of anything other than Mama's milk (not even water!!! Except for the time I almost drowned her in a bath washing her back - didn't realise her face was in the water!!!)

Anyway Emma really liked the taste of it. You could see she was thinking: Now what is this in my mouth? Yumm!

Weight: 5.84kg
Length: 58cm

At 2 months (16/9), she was 5.38kg, so she's put on a significant 0.5kg.

But as a comparison, Z was a hefty 6.5kg and 62cm at 3 months.

Dr B said Emma is at the 50 percentile and might be "petite". I guess the main reason for this: Since her feeding frenzy at 6 weeks, Emma's milk intake has decreased dramatically and is below what it should be for her weight. She is drinking about 700-800ml a day when before, when she was much smaller at 6 weeks, she was drinking 1200ml!

But anyway, nothing to worry about. Just musing.

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