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Alex went for his first pediatric
appointment today. He’s growing like a weed already.
At nine days old, Alex has not only regained his birth
weight, he is now four ounces over it. That means in the
last week he gained fourteen ounces. At this rate he will
weigh over 52 pounds when he turns one year old. I
suspect he will slow down a bit or we have a budding
lineman for the NFL on our hands. Most interesting is
that he was also 21.75 inches long. This is 1.25 inches
taller than when he was born. We suspect that he was
measured small at the hospital. Julie felt he was pretty
long based upon the fact he could kick her in the ribs
and push on her cervix at the same time. All other things
checked out great. Alex seems to be a very healthy young
guy. We are very thankful he’s doing so well (knock
on wood). Alex has been working on
his crying abilities. No more soft and cute cry. Alex is
developing a healthy set of lungs. Everyone at the
doctor’s office could hear him. Of course we’d
all cry if we had to strip down naked, be pushed and
poked, have our heel pricked to draw blood, all by
complete strangers. Alex did exact his revenge however by
doing what babies do best when they are naked. Mom and
Dad forgot the diaper bag, we are still learning.
Today’s lesson is that just because the pediatrician
has extra diapers, not everyone else does.
D.
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