4 Months Doctor's Appointment

September 29th, 2009
Today was Emma and Logan's 4 month checkup with Dr. Cade. They are both doing great. Logan is 15lbs 10oz and 24 3/4 in long. Emma is now 13lbs 13oz and 24 1/4 in long. They're both right at 50% for their height and weight now which is perfect! They're both at 25% on their head circumference which suprised me a little because I thought Logan had a pretty good sized head. The doctor said I should see the kids in the 95th percentile - yikes!

We asked Dr. Cade about Emma's eyesight because we thought she might have trouble seeing and she has a hard time really focusing in on us, but the doctor assured us that she was focusing okay and it might just take her a little longer than Logan for her eyesight to improve. Emma did really great lifting her head up, while Logan is still struggling a little bit with that.

There's such a span of time that's considered "normal" for certain developmental milestones. It's hard to not compare the two of them when you would assume that they'd do the same things at similar times. That's so not the case and we're really learning that more and more each day.

The doctor informed us that we could start feeding both of the babies rice cereal. Wow - how exciting! We're supposed to start out with just a tablespoon mixed with formula once a day - the main focus is teaching them how to eat with a spoon. She said more than likely there would be more food out than in for a while, lol! Once they master that, then we can give them cereal twice a day and by their 6 month appointment we can start introducing baby food. There are going to be lots of firsts over the next 2 months!!

They both had a tough time with their shots and they seemed a lot more suspicious at this visit than they did at 2 months! Logan was not in a good mood the whole time - I think he really sensed that something bad was going to happen. Once we got home, Logan did pretty well the rest of the night, but Emma struggled. She had a fever all night and into the next day. We finally got it to break that next night. Whew - not looking forward to that 6 months checkup!