Wednesday, December 17, 2008

One Year Check Up!

Spencer had his one year old check up today! Boy, I know he felt like a pin cushion. He had to get 4 shots and a finger prick to check to see if his iron was still low. Thankfully, it was not! Today, he weighted 25 pounds and 12 ounces, which is no longer in the 90th percentile, but it is somewhere between 75-90%. His height was 30.5 inches, which was in the 75% and still his head was in the 95% at 19 inches. Dr. Rainey was pleased to see that his weight is slowing down a little bit and his height is catching up with him! And now that he is walking, he will really start to thin out, which is kinda sad because I love all of this rolls. Anyway, he also informed me that I need to ween him from his bottles and formula and transition to whole milk and sippycups. I proceeded to ask him, "How in the ---- was I supposed to do that?" but maybe not in those words but it is what I was thinking. Spencer loves his bottles and it is going to be awful trying to get him to stop taking them first thing in the morning and before he goes to bed but we will tackle it slowly. I think we will start with transitioning him over to whole milk and then once he is taking that slowly get rid of the bottle. Please pray for us as we tackle this endeavor!

2 comments:

The Arnold Family said...

Vera still has a bottle of organic whole milk every morning and every night. She likes it and personally I do not see anything wrong with it. Just do what you think is right, I usually just take the advice that I want from the Dr's and leave the rest.

The Redfields said...

Spencer's a lot bigger than our little one (16 months, 29.5 inches, and 23.5 pounds). And I thought he was catching up to "normal".... sigh.