One Year and One Day!

Dylan had his 12-month check up today and it went great!
He weighs 20 lbs and 1 oz (10th %tile) and he's 31.25 inches long (90th %tile).
He currently has 8 teeth, the eighth just popped thru in the last few days... also, his gums are pretty swollen because his MOLARS are trying to come in too.

He was very brave today and did great while the doctor examined him. He got three shots. The MMR (measels/mumps/rhubella), the chicken pox vaccine, and a booster of another one.

The doctor says he can eat anything now except shellfish and nuts and that we can start him on whole milk or 2% or even soymilk, so we'll have to see what he likes. Also, since we have well water the doctor gave us a prescription for flouride.

I thought this doctors visit was great. It was the first time we had seen Dr. Knold, but he had met us in the hospital when Dylan was born. He was the on-call doctor for the maternity ward that day. What I really liked about today's visit was that he took the time to talk with us for awhile and gave us a LOT of warnings about safety issues around the house... like cooking on the burners on the back of the stove, turning the pot/pan handles away from the edge of the stove. He said tons of kids just run their hands along the part of the counter they can reach and get knives and burns that way. He said that children this age have NO sense of cause and effect, so Dylan doesn't know that he can get hurt by falling down the stairs or touching a HOT pan will burn him. He basically said that we cannot take our eyes off him!

Suzanne