The T Report

T went to the doctor yesterday (Thursday 10/20) for her 2 month check up. She was 12 pounds (70-80th percentile) and 23.5 inches long (90th percentile). (Yesterday she was 9 weeks.) T has gained almost 4 pounds since birth. T is long and skinny.

To compare the girls...
N (#1--3.75 now) was 13 pounds 8 ounces and 23.25 inches long at 2 months. N's weight gain was amazing cause she was 7 pounds 9 ounces at birth which meant she gained almost 6 pounds in 2 months! For a while she was 90th weight and then at some point she dropped down to 70-80th percentile weight and stayed there and went from about 70th-80th height to 90-95th percentile height.

At exactly 9 weeks, K (#2--17 months now) weighed 13 pound and 1/4 ounce and 24.5 inches long. 90th percentile weight and "off the charts" in height. She was 9 lbs at birth so she gained 4 pounds. At 15 months K was only 50th weight and height though so she may end up smaller than N.

Other T news...
She's smiling lots and her eyes are tracking objects well. (T slept almost nonstop her first six weeks and it didn't seem like her eyes were focusing when she was awake. I was relieved when at around 7 weeks she started waking up more and looking around and smiling. She was such a sleepy baby that her eyes didn't have a chance to learn to focus till about 7 weeks.) She's now cooing like crazy (for the last couple of weeks) and getting close to giggling. She makes the sweetest and cutest little baby noises. Today she's started studying her hands to try and understand them. I just love it when they do that. They look and look at their hands and then turn their hands over and look some more. So cute.

One not good thing....
I had noticed that she was always tilting her head to the left (in her car seat, the swing, and when lying in the cradle on her back). I thought she might have toticollis (tight neck). She does have mild torticollis and a little bit of a flat head on the left side from this. We will take her to a physical therapist to learn some stretching exercises for the torticollis. The doctor is not worried about either. Both the torticollis and flattening on her head are very very mild. Hopefully all will be resolved soon. I'm trying not to freak out. I'd read about toriticollis and a friend's baby had a mild case, but I've never had to deal with it in one of my own children before.

The N&K front...
So in addition to T getting her check up and getting three vaccinations (Polio, Prevnar, HiB), we also took N and K to get some vaccinations yesterday. ("Shots all around--on me," I shouted as we walked into the doctor's office. Not really, but it would have been kind of fun to have done so.)

K got one (DTaP). She has slept a little more, but otherwise didn't seem to notice at all. She looked a little upset after she got the shot, but the nurse gave her a lollipop and she was very happy about the lollipop and forgot all about the shots. Poor N got two (MMR and DTaP) and she was very emotional about it. She had a nap yesterday, slept late this morning and today her arm is pretty swollen. She says it only hurts if her band-aid falls off. (It fell off today and we didn't have any more and that was very bad. Daddy had to stop and buy some band-aids on his way home from work.)