Trouble on my hands...
Aug. 15th, 2008 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geminigirlFour month stats...
22 and a half inches, 11 lbs 5.5 oz. She's slowed down a little on the growth curve and is closer to the tenth percentile, but Dr. Rich isn't worried, so I'm not. She's hitting milestones, so it's all okay. She's got a tiny spot of eczema behind her ears so we can use a little Aquaphor or cortizone on it if it bothers her and watch her a bit more carefully for food allergies when we do introduce solids, which we should wait until six months to do unless she suddenly increases her intake of milk, at which point we're to call Pat and discuss introducing solids.
There is of course the little matter of sleep, or lack thereof. Naomi is going through a sleep issue, mostly just not wanting to. And it's normal at this point, but as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rockstarbob said last night..."Normal doesn't equal easy." Most of her sleep these days is in the swing, and if that's what works, that's what works and we should stick with it for the moment, or so we've been advised. Pat (the LC at the pediatrician's office) said to us that the ones that don't sleep are the ones at the top of their class...they're too busy taking everything in to sleep. I have trouble on my hands, it seems.
After that, I went to get a gift for Teigan's christening, so we spent some time at the mall, most of it in the bookstore, waiting for the engraving to be finished. Naomi got a stack of new books, I got a few things for myself, and a book whose intended recipient is debatable-bothzedrikcayne and I are probably interested in it. I do feel terribly guilty about Naomi's books though...she has plenty of books, and will undoubtedly have more, but I read classics, and lots of Russian literature in translation, because that was a good part of the collection in the house. Thing is, my collection isn't quite so high quality...Mom was an English major who also studied Russian literature, and so that's what was there. My collection isn't quite so high quality, though I suppose in the long run it's more important to encourage her to read rather than worry about reading great literature. If she reads for pleasure, she'll read the classics eventually.
22 and a half inches, 11 lbs 5.5 oz. She's slowed down a little on the growth curve and is closer to the tenth percentile, but Dr. Rich isn't worried, so I'm not. She's hitting milestones, so it's all okay. She's got a tiny spot of eczema behind her ears so we can use a little Aquaphor or cortizone on it if it bothers her and watch her a bit more carefully for food allergies when we do introduce solids, which we should wait until six months to do unless she suddenly increases her intake of milk, at which point we're to call Pat and discuss introducing solids.
There is of course the little matter of sleep, or lack thereof. Naomi is going through a sleep issue, mostly just not wanting to. And it's normal at this point, but as
rockstarbob said last night..."Normal doesn't equal easy." Most of her sleep these days is in the swing, and if that's what works, that's what works and we should stick with it for the moment, or so we've been advised. Pat (the LC at the pediatrician's office) said to us that the ones that don't sleep are the ones at the top of their class...they're too busy taking everything in to sleep. I have trouble on my hands, it seems. After that, I went to get a gift for Teigan's christening, so we spent some time at the mall, most of it in the bookstore, waiting for the engraving to be finished. Naomi got a stack of new books, I got a few things for myself, and a book whose intended recipient is debatable-both
zedrikcayne and I are probably interested in it. I do feel terribly guilty about Naomi's books though...she has plenty of books, and will undoubtedly have more, but I read classics, and lots of Russian literature in translation, because that was a good part of the collection in the house. Thing is, my collection isn't quite so high quality...Mom was an English major who also studied Russian literature, and so that's what was there. My collection isn't quite so high quality, though I suppose in the long run it's more important to encourage her to read rather than worry about reading great literature. If she reads for pleasure, she'll read the classics eventually.
