9-month well visit update

A week+ overdue, oh well :)

So I was a little off on baby's weight... turns out she is only 18.5 lbs. Her growth has definitely slowed down. Her length is 27.25 in, bringing her down to the 38th percentile (she was still somewhere between 50-75% for weight). Maybe this means she will stop outgrowing her clothes so quickly! Everything at her check-up was great. They were even very happy with her progress with solid foods, and said if she is able to eat finger foods don't even worry about cereal and purees! The doctor we saw said to feed her whatever we are eating, just make sure it is "cheerio-sized" and squish things like peas so that they aren't choking hazards. This hasn't been going so well, because for some reason she doesn't like little bits of food- only big chunks (besides blueberries, which are her favorite food). She does so well with the big chunks, I'm not worrying about it too much.

I've still got a couple of weeks' worth of some amazing baby food (planned to make my own, but got a huge bag of the stuff from a family friend). It's so good, I would be happy to eat it so it wouldn't go to waste, but baby likes it too so I'll let her have it. It's nice to know that it's fine to give her whatever we are eating, though, and makes meal-time that much easier. I was worried about dairy, salt-content, fat, etc. but apparently it's all okay, because a serving size for her is only about 1tbsp, and she still gets most nutrients from nursing. The only rules are no shellfish nuts, egg whites, or straight milk. Easy enough.

In case anyone is curious about the food I mentioned, it's Sprout organic baby food.

She loves the fruit flavors...new flavor for today is the pasta with lentil bolognese.

Not much has happened since my last survey update, but I'll do it again anyway:

Age: 9 months, 1+week.

Stats/Size: 18.5 lbs, and is now wearing both 9month and 12 month clothes, probably about half of each. I don't know how she outgrows clothes when her length only changed by a half inch in 3 months!

Sleep: Eh... she seems to be trying to cut out her second nap. I'm not ready for that! No matter how hard we try, most days she just refuses to fall asleep for it, and after an hour and a half of trying, it is too late anyway if we want her to go to bed at a reasonable hour. When she doesn't get a nap, she goes to bed around 8-8:30. She then wakes up to eat sometime between 12-2, and again around 6. Not fun, but she does go back to sleep until about 8:30, 9am, which is nice on the weekends. But I would prefer one night feeding and two daytime naps.

Eat: Great, she's been eating at least two meals of solids a day- breakfast and dinner at the dining room table while I eat too. I love eating together! Still nursing 5 times (4 daytime, 1 night or 3 daytime 2 night)

Getting Around: Cruising fast. She know walks with her little push-walker thing or anything else she can get to move. The other day it really looked like she was about to take a step toward me from the couch... scary.

New People: Some friends of friends last night, who had 3 year old and 4 month old daughters. She loved the 3 year old, they played a ton. New babies are starting at daycare too, as her friends move up to the 1-2 year old room.

Best moment this week: no single moment, but we have been getting tons of laughs, hugs and kisses- I LOVE them.

Worst moment this week: hmmm maybe just the time wasted trying to put her down for her afternoon nap.

What I miss: Not much... sometimes when I am rocking with my sleeping baby I get sad that she is already so big, and miss when she was tiny, but she is so much more fun now- I think it is more just sad how fast the time has gone already.

What I am looking forward to: warm weather!!! I know it's still a while, but I am sick of being stuck indoors and miss playing in the yard and going to the park.

One more picture... I think out of about 130 pictures I deleted 125 haha... hopefully I'll figure this new camera out soon so I can start posting more pics. Right now I'm still working on how to focus on my baby instead of her clothes and toys!