6 Month Update

Holy Cow! Molly is 6 months old already. We went to the doctor today and here is the report:

• Name: Molly Ardith
• Age: 6.1 Months
• Height: 28.25 inches (99th percentile, same as last visit)
  
• Weight: 17 lbs 13 oz (83rd percentile, down from last visit)
• Head: 16.9 in (66th percentile, up from last visit)

• Wearing a wet diaper at beginning of appointment that weighed 3 oz. (that could have accounted for the weight percentile drop)
  

• More vaccinations, including the flu shot
• No signs of any teeth
• Passed all the development questions except that she doesn't like to roll. She has successfully rolled over twice, I think, but chooses not to do it anymore.
  
• Scraped ear wax out of ears and noticed she has ear infections in both ears. (I probably should have taken her back since her ear infections a month ago, but she is rarely fussy, hasn't had trouble sleeping, and has never had a fever. I didn't think a runny nose and a cough meant ear infections, but maybe they do.)
• Dr. Havlik suggested feeding her baby food 3 times per day instead of just twice.
• She has to go back to check her ears in 2 weeks, to get the 2nd half of the flu shot in 1 month, and for a 9 month visit in February.

• Dr. Havlik was a little goofy today. He is growing a beard. He asked if Molly could say any vowel sounds like BBB or MMM . . . vowel sounds? He asked if the day care she goes to is mostly teacher's kids or student's kids . . . student's kids? like a teen parent program? Huh? He then asked about my brother and then went on some rant about West High sports and a kid from Rwanda. He also forgot to give us Molly's prescription and we had to ask for it. Weird. Maybe it was just an off day. Oh, he also (for the first time) DID NOT tell me to make sure I don't leave Molly alone on high surfaces that she could roll off of. I guess it's ok to do that now. Phew!

In other news, we thought Molly had grown out of her car seat, so we bought a new one. My mom saw it and said, "it's huge." It's actually pretty middle-of-the-road. They get much bigger.

James and Molly went on a field trip Saturday to get it, but when we tried it out, she hated it. So, we went back to the bucket for now, but we've tried out the seat in the living room and she seems to be getting used to it. After today's doctor visit measurements, she has .25 inches to grow before needing to be in the new seat (and 4 lbs).


Little baby in a little seat (2 weeks old).

Big baby in a little seat (she's slouching, her head really brushes the top)
Big baby looks like little baby in a big seat.