9 month appointment

Weight: 24 lbs, 14 ozs, 90th - 95th percentile
Length: 29 inches, 50th - 75th percentile
Head circumference: 17.5 inches, 25th percentile

Clothes size: 12 & 18 months
Shoe size: 4
Diaper size: 4

It's official, my 9 month old is bigger than my 29 month old.  We all saw it coming, Dr. Hirsch even predicted at Nathan's 2 month appointment that he would be bigger than Justin by 9 months.  But now that it's actually happened I'm taking it pretty hard.  It's a constant reminder of J's prematurity and the issues we're still dealing with.  And then there's the concern for Nathan who's off the charts.  Dr. Hirsch called him fat for his length, ouch.  It's tough having kids who are on opposite sides of the growth chart.  It would be nice if they were both in the middle.  Anywhoo, I digressed so let's get back to Nathan's progress.    

Overall Nathan is doing very well. He's crawling, pulling up, starting to cruise and he's spoken his first words: dada, mama and hi.  He's drinking 7 ozs of formula 4 times a day and eating 3 meals a day: usually yogurt or cereal for breakfast, stage 2 baby fruit for lunch and stage 3 baby food for dinner.   Dr. Hirsch said we can transition to whole milk around 11 months and that by 12 months he should be completely transitioned to table foods by 12 months.  But I might tweak a few things nutrition wise to get his weight more into the average range.   

On the sleep front he's getting closer to the 8-10 hours he should be sleeping at night.  He's now sleeping for 7 - 7.5 hour stretches but I know he's capable of sleeping longer.  He seems to do better when he's been out in fresh air.  He slept for 9 hours after we went trick or treating and during vacation he slept for 8.5 hours multiple nights.  Too bad we can't go back to Florida.  But we're making progress, and I'll definitely take 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep.