Our well baby...er, um, toddler

I have neglected to update the blog as regularly lately, I apologize! Our week last week post-vacation was crazy busy, for reasons I'll get into later. I promise I'm trying to catch up!

Emmy had her 15 month check up the Monday after our return. She grew 1.5 inches and she is now 28 inches tall. She weighed 17 lbs, 7 oz and her head is 45 cm. Her height and weight are still less than 5% but her noggin is 50%. She has a big head!

We were SHOCKED to hear she only weighed 17 lbs 7 oz!! We were sure she was 20 lbs, or at least darn close to it. Dr. J is not worried about her weight, although she would like to see her get closer to the curve, but she is growing and that's what counts. She's a healthy weight for her height, too. Dr. J said she is surely burning even more calories since she's walking. She almost wishes she wasn't walking, but it's great that she is! The nurses laughed to see her toddling around the office...Nurse F said "she's too tiny to be walking!" Developmentally she is right on track for her actual age, so that is great news! Hopefully by the time she is two she will be caught up physically to children her age.


The biggest change this time was Emmy was NOT happy to see Dr. J. She didn't like to let her touch her, although it's not Dr. J who gives her the shots! She was even less happy to see Nurse G come in to give her shots. :( Man we hate that. We have altered the vaccination schedule a bit so she gets the more spread out, so she got 2 at 12 months, 2 at 15, and she'll get 2 more at 18 months. One of those will probably be a flu shot at 18, so we'll have to take her back for one more later on. Dr. J has been great about helping us work through this!

I just cannot say enough good things about Dr. J and her office. While I wouldn't say the care we would have gotten on post would have been bad, there's just so little consistency of care, I feel much, much better having the same doctor follow her. Plus, some friends of ours recently had a VERY bad experience with their son who is a few months younger than Emmy. We're talking a nasty doctor filed a report with social services on them, which included her falsifying reports. Needless to say the claims were baseless and they took their son, Emmy's pal Ryan, to Dr. J and that made all the difference. We will definitely continue to take her off post for care, no matter where we are, for a few years.

So, we have a happy, healthy 15 month old. Yay!