Jacob's 2-year appointment
This past Friday morning was Jacob's 2-year check-up, and the results were a little surprising to someone who watches him regularly scarf down three whole slices of pizza in one sitting.
I suggested to the nurse that we try weighing him on the standing-up big-boy scale, anticipating that he would top 30 pounds for sure. We did, and he didn't. Sitting on the baby scale for the last time, he weighed in at 28 lbs 4 oz, or the 50th percentile for weight. Dude, what happened to my 90th percentile Hulkster of yore?
I'm going to chalk up a little of his scrawniness to the fact that he was barely over his second cold in a month. Dr. M also enlightened me, unobservant mommy that I am, that his last three molars are currently, simultaneously, erupting. Daddy noticed that this was negatively affecting his appetite at mealtime. Whenever he gets a piece of food back there and bites down, he fusses and spits it out and suddenly wants to be done with eating.
Nevertheless, I was shocked because he doesn't look that skinny to me. Not that 50th percentile is skinny, but it is, historically-speaking, skinny for him. Dr. M was not worried, and certainly it could be worse -- we have a friend whose little kids (Isaac and Jacob's ages) have both been diagnosed with "failure to thrive" and have to drink Ensure. A 2-year-old friend of theirs was just admitted to CHOP to get fed through a tube because she was doing so bad at gaining weight on her own. That is some scary stuff. It gives me reason to quit complaining about the nearly $50 a month we spend on milk to keep up with demand from the boys in my house.
Baby Jakey Shaq, while lean, didn't disappoint with the long. At 36 - 3/8 inches, he is in the 90th percentile for height. Dr. M told me that you can use a toddler's height at 2 years to estimate height at adulthood -- you take height in inches and double it to get adult height in inches. For example, Isaac was 35 inches at his 2-year checkup, which means he should end up at 70 inches, or 5-foot-10 at adulthood. This is precisely how tall his father is. By this formula, however, the Jake could eventually sprout to a stately 6-foot-1. "Little" brother no more.
I suggested to the nurse that we try weighing him on the standing-up big-boy scale, anticipating that he would top 30 pounds for sure. We did, and he didn't. Sitting on the baby scale for the last time, he weighed in at 28 lbs 4 oz, or the 50th percentile for weight. Dude, what happened to my 90th percentile Hulkster of yore?
I'm going to chalk up a little of his scrawniness to the fact that he was barely over his second cold in a month. Dr. M also enlightened me, unobservant mommy that I am, that his last three molars are currently, simultaneously, erupting. Daddy noticed that this was negatively affecting his appetite at mealtime. Whenever he gets a piece of food back there and bites down, he fusses and spits it out and suddenly wants to be done with eating.
Nevertheless, I was shocked because he doesn't look that skinny to me. Not that 50th percentile is skinny, but it is, historically-speaking, skinny for him. Dr. M was not worried, and certainly it could be worse -- we have a friend whose little kids (Isaac and Jacob's ages) have both been diagnosed with "failure to thrive" and have to drink Ensure. A 2-year-old friend of theirs was just admitted to CHOP to get fed through a tube because she was doing so bad at gaining weight on her own. That is some scary stuff. It gives me reason to quit complaining about the nearly $50 a month we spend on milk to keep up with demand from the boys in my house.
Baby Jakey Shaq, while lean, didn't disappoint with the long. At 36 - 3/8 inches, he is in the 90th percentile for height. Dr. M told me that you can use a toddler's height at 2 years to estimate height at adulthood -- you take height in inches and double it to get adult height in inches. For example, Isaac was 35 inches at his 2-year checkup, which means he should end up at 70 inches, or 5-foot-10 at adulthood. This is precisely how tall his father is. By this formula, however, the Jake could eventually sprout to a stately 6-foot-1. "Little" brother no more.
posted by Claire at 9:01 AM
1 Comments:
glad to hear the 2nd year check up went fairly well. tall and skinny. not too bad :-) he's just needs to feel good and have those teeth and he'll be chomping away again.
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