6 MONTH DOCTOR CHECKUP

Yesterday you had your 6 month well-baby checkup. The worst thing about these visits are the crazy amount of immunizations that doctors now give babies. Normally you would be getting 5 shots at each baby visit (2, 4, and 6 months) but we decided against giving you the Hepatitis B vacciation, so you get 4 each time. Each time you've progressively been better about the pokes in your legs. Yesterday you turned beet red when the nurse did the shots, and screamed for about a minute. Then I picked you up and you complained for another minute, but then were fine. You even smiled at the nurse on the way out the door! She was shocked! You've slept a lot today -- all those injections take a lot out of a baby, I bet.

You are now 29 1/3 inches long (off the chart) and 19 lbs. 8 oz. (85th percentile). I found Tony's baby records and I have mine, so here's a sort of interesting comparison:

WEIGHT
Thor Tony Ashley
birth 8 lb 14 oz 8 lb 1 oz 8 lb 4 oz
2 mo 12 lb 10 oz 13 lb 14 oz 13 lb 4 oz
4 mo 16 lb 4 oz 17 lb 13 oz 16 lb 8 oz
6 mo 19 lb 8 oz no record 19 lb 7 oz

HEIGHT
Thor Tony Ashley
birth 23" 21" 19 1/2"
2 mo 26" 24 1/2" no record
4 mo 27 1/2" 27 1/2 27 1/2"
6 mo 29 1/3" no record 28 3/4"


The strangest thing? We were all exactly the same height at 4 months! I guess it goes to show that baby height doesn't predict future height. Our doctor said that at age 2 you can predict much better.