Nine month appointment

This past week Brynn had her nine month appointment at the doctor. All in all it was a good appointment. They went over the normal growth and development and asked what she was doing, eating, etc. Her height was around 27 inches which correlated with her noggin (head, lol!) and was in the 25% adjusted. Brynn actually sat on the baby scale instead of lying down on it like she had been content at doing in appointments past and seemed to be a bit more mellow for her weigh in. She weighed in at 14lbs 15 oz for her nine month mark. She's not yet on the growth curve for weight but has made some good progress from her previous visits. Her pediatrician and I went over some good high calorie food options for her to continue on like her whole milk baby yogurt, avacados, etc. Also we went over the amount of breastmilk that she was taking which was easy to figure out since I'm exclusively pumping these days and supplementing with formula at night time. (As I mentioned she officially gave up the breastfeeding game a while back.) She didn't see her cardiologist at that appointment but her regular pediatrician thought that things we continuing to go well (more accelerated weight gain, no increase in the circumoral blueness with feeding, no increase in the amount of murmer heard upon listening to her heart.) So these are all very good things!

We went over sippy cups, crawling, finger foods and all the normal stuff that are the big activities for this age. Her doctor asked if she had some signs of separation anxiety or stranger anxiety. She said that those are actually healthy things at this age and show a good bond between parents and their children. I had to giggle though because Brynn seems to love everyone she meets and doesn't really cry when we leave her with my mom or a sitter. But then again - maybe it just means she's going to be a social butterfly :-) She has tried to crawl more and more these days, mostly Brynn just army crawls or rolls to where she wants to go. She gets up on all fours and rocks, but doesn't make much traditional crawling style. That's okay with me though...she still gets where she wants to go. Brynn is pretty good at picking up Cheerios and banana chunks but doesn't like to put them in her mouth. She'll grab several in each hand and then open her mouth like a baby bird wanting you to feed her, LOL! She's trying to start to use her sippy cup - not too successful...but at least she's interested in trying. Right now I just put water in it sometimes and breast milk at others. What's in in doesn't seem to matter to her, it just depends on her mood for the day.

Her doctor asked what her favorite toys or TV shows were, as well as how much television she watched. She actually laughed when I said that one of the only main shows that Brynn seems to like is Big Brother, especially when Kevin the one character talks! What can I say, the baby has good taste :-) She still also loves her ring set, her sea horse glo- worm at bedtime and her real life puppy dog Neela. Brynn especially shrieks with delight when we play fetch with Neela and she returns the dog toy to us. On certain moments Neela will actually bring the toy back to Brynn which I just think is the cutest thing.

Well it's back to Big Brother and then off to bed. 4:30AM comes around pretty quickly for work!