First doctor’s appointment
October 4th, 2006 by Scott
Jul took the little man to his first doctors appointment yesterday. He did really well and didn’t even cry when he got a shot (baby tougher than father already). Nicholas weighed in at 8 lbs up from 7,10 at birth and 7,7 when we left the hospital. He is 20.75 inches long down from 21 inches long at birth. So he is gaining weight but getting shorter. To be honest I’m not sure how you measure the little squirmy guy. I can’t get him to sit still for more than five seconds.
They tell us he is in the 90th percential for length, 50 percentile for weight. I’m not sure what to do with this information. Is this like baby SAT’s? Do I need to have a talk with Nicholas about his slacking in the weight category? “Your mom and I need you to keep the length moving in positive direction so the other kids don’t catch you, and we need you to really focus on the weight component. All the good playgrounds won’t even consider you if you don’t have 80th percentile scores across the board.”
Heart, ears, soft spot, eyes, etc are normal. No swollen organs (I’m not sure why they would swell, but it seems good they didn’t).
In other news, I got peed on for the first time today while changing his diaper. It is every bit as exciting as they told me it would be.
3 Responses to “First doctor’s appointment”
Wait until he poops on you… now that is something to write about.
When he takes his first “real” bath, pour some of that water on his pepper and watch the pepper spray. It’s pretty exciting.
If he were in the upper percentiles in weight, the doctors would be laying a guilt trip on you. Weight is one category where it is good to be right in the middle.