18 Month Numbers

Cassidy had her 18 month check up with her pediatrician today.

Here's the brief synopsis:

• Weight: 22lbs 3oz (30th percentile) (She's steadily been decreasing in percentile over the last several months. At 6 months, she was in the 75th percentile (17lbs), and at 12 months the 55th percentile(21lbs8oz)

• Height: 30 inches (10th percentile)

• Head: 46cm (30th percentile)

The doc said she's not concerned that she hasn't gained much weight in the last 6 months because with her height being on the low end of the scale, we want her weight to be close to the same percentile so she is proportional.

We can definitely see this happening over the last few months as she is thinning out and looking less "squatty" as the doctor put it at one of our earlier visits. "Squatty"??!!! She's not squatty! She's perfect! (okay, she may have been looking a bit "squatty" before she started running all over the place.)

She does have another ear infection in her left ear so we've got another prescription for antibiotics. (This will make the 7th time she's been on antibiotics since last July, first for pneumonia, then ear infections,sinus infections, and bronchitis, sometimes all at once - 9th time if you include the two times her infections didn't respond to the first antibiotic and she had to get an antibiotic shot.)

At the end of the month when we see the immunologist again, she'll be getting an extra pneumococcal vaccine which covers more serotypes than the Prevnar vaccine she's already had a couple doses of. Hopefully that will cut down on the ear infections and colds. If not, then we're headed for surgery for tube insertion in her ears.

Everything else looked good and Cassidy's development is right on track!