Jane just had her nine months appointment and here are the benchmarks.

• Head Circumference – 17.5 inches (50%)
• Height – 28.5 inches (75%)
• Weight – 15 lbs. 14 ozs. (10%)

She is right on track developmentally, still taking the tall and skinny route.  Her vocabulary has increased to about a dozen or so words, though ‘BaBa,’ ‘MaMa,’ and ‘DaDa’ are the favorite words.  She has become very independent and isn’t to keen on letting us feed her, taking her bottle away from us and wanting finger foods instead of baby food.  No walking yet, but crawling everywhere.

Yippee, Jane is six months old.  We have gone through the six month shots (boo), and the six month sizing up.  Jane was 12 lbs. 9.5 oz. (10th percentile) and 25 inches (50th percentile).  While I wish she was a little bigger, she is staying on her own curve and doing well.  As everyone says, she is such a little person now with a personality and likes (sweet potatoes) and dislikes (peas).  I’ll try to be better about keeping up with the blog.

-Dad

Well Janie has had an eventful weekend.  She started throwing up quite a bit Friday night and it continued to Saturday morning.  After talking to her pediatrician we went up to the ER so they could confirm there wasn’t a problem with her surgery.  Poor Janie had to deal with a few X-rays and a second Upper GI, but all the test were normal.  The doctors think it is either really bad reflux or a mild stomach bug.  Now we are home and Janie seems to be recovering well after a day on Pedialyte (not her favorite food).  All the doctors said it was better to be safe than sorry and we were able to get new images of the surgery site and confirm for ourselves that all is well.

-John