Tuesday, July 10, 2007

9 month checkup...

Oliver had his 9 month checkup on Monday (just after he turned 10 months). He was 28 3/4 inches long (that's +1 3/4 inches since his 6 month appt) and 18 pounds 9 ounces (that's a loss of 5 ounces since his 6 month appointment...and it also means that he lost almost a pound and a half since we were there when he got his ears checked!) That puts him in the 10% for weight - from 75% at 6 months. The doctor was a bit concerned, she weighed him 4 times, and he has to go back to get weighed again in a month. I suppose it's just because he's always been so far above average for weight and now he's way below average. He still eats like crazy...I always worry that I'm overfeeding him! His head was 18 1/4 (a gain of 1/2 inch).

As far as development he's doing well, right on schedule in most areas and slightly ahead in a few.

We asked the dr. about mercury in vaccinations and she said they don't even use it anymore. She said there is practically no risk in getting them except in extreme cases and that no study has ever shown that there is a link between autism and vaccinations. I'm still not sure how I feel about it but we went ahead with it. This time he only got one shot but for his 1 year he gets 4 shots and a finger prick. I'm not excited about that at all!

Sunday, July 08, 2007

I know I said I wasn't going to post this week but I had to post about what happened today.

We decided to go to the Natural Science Center of Greensboro to check out the new zoo area and walk around the inside with Oliver. We had fun doing the maze, looking at the dinosaur skeletons, and various other activities but the best thing that happened was at the tiger pen. There are two tigers, a male and a female. They were laying up on the side of the pen. There was a group of people on the sidewalk, but we walked up around the side where they were laying. As soon as the tigers saw Oliver they could not take their eyes off him. We talked to them for a little bit and then headed back down to the sidewalk. As we started walking away the female tiger got up and followed us, never looking away from Oliver. When she got to the end of the pen she waited a second. We started walking back up the way we had come and she followed again! So we went down to the sidewalk where the group of people were and she rubbed up against the fence a few times right in front of us before she headed back to lay down with the male. It was very cool! She looked like she wanted to be petted.

We also got a bit of entertainment from some gibbons. They swung from some ropes and then hung down with their feet against the veiwing area. They were quite friendly!

Overall a good day!