4 Month Check-Up

Maddie's 4 month check up was on Friday with Dr. Anderson, whom we love. He has to be my favorite physician at this practice and there are quite a few. Now, I know that this will be confusing to some - like Pop-Pop Cary - who has a hard time swallowing your age when we refer to it by the weeks, but we had to wait 4 weeks to see Dr. Anderson. So even though Maddie is 5 months (or 20 weeks), this was her 4 month check-up. And she's still perfect! He said it - not me. She weighed 16 lbs. 2 oz. which puts her in the 80-85% for weight (up from 75%). She is 25 inches long - in the 75%. And I can't recall the measurement of her head, it was in the 80-85% range as well. He was really pleased with her developmental levels and surprised to see those first two teeth already. He said that we could start solids whenever we are ready to do so and I told him that we were going to wait a bit longer. Both he and the nurse couldn't get over how happy a baby she was - constantly smiling. In fact, Maddie got 2 shots that day and the nurse did not want to give them to her for fear that Maddie wouldn't like her anymore and wouldn't flash those huge smiles for her anymore. Maddie cried for just a few seconds after the shots, and then smiled at the nurse as if to say, no big deal - I forgive you. Her legs - which is where they gave her the shots - were a little sore Friday and Saturday but we gave her Tylenol to help.

We go back this Friday so that Maddie can get the other 2 vaccinations required at her age, but I expect those to go just as smoothly. I'm not sure her Daddy is excited about us going back because there is a young blond man that sits behind the desk that Maddie is particularly taken with. She smiles and stares him down to the point that I think he might have been a little embarassed about the attention since all of the other ladies and nurses in the office kept teasing him about it. Daddy was not happy to hear that Maddie was flirting in his absence. But of course, she smiled that million dollar grin at Daddy and then, on cue, he melted into a pool of blubber. That's usually the way it goes at our house these days.