On Monday, the babies turned 4 months. We know they've been growing quickly and today we got all their new stats at their check up. Joe is in Minneapolis with work, so Aunt Kathryn who is in town visiting from Boston came with. I thought I would be able to manage OK on my own, but now that its over I am sooo glad she was there. The kids were on their best behavior. We were in the office with the doctor for almost 2 hours. He told us he has never seen in over 28 years 3 babies at once behave so well. Good job guys!
All 3 are doing great. Our doctor uses a regular full term chart to measure the kids. He thinks they are all developmentally normal for 4 months. I think they may be a little on the slow side, i.e. not really holding onto objects, but he says there are full term babies that cannot at this point either. It does look like we will have to go get Ryan's head checked out for a helmet. It has a pretty flat angle across the back. Luckily, our Children's Hospital has a clinic that can fit him right in Denver if they determine he needs one. The only other issue is that they have been getting yeast infections under their necks lately from heat and wetness, but its just something we're going to have to stay on top of. It doesn't appear to bother the kids too much, so that's a good thing. We're so lucky to have 2 pediatricians in the family (Joe's sister Gretchen and my sister Erin), so we usually get several opinions whenever we're concerned about anything!
Here's their official stats:
Ryan: 15lbs 10 oz. 70% percentile of both height and weight!!
Caitlin: 11lbs 11oz 10% percentile weight and 4th in height
Madison: 11lbs even 5th percentile weight and 3rd in height
He said if he would take them back 6 weeks based on their prematurity, Ryan would be in the 97th percentile of both height & weight and the girls in about in the 50th. JP was always in the 90-97th, so its not too suprising!
And here are lots of new pics:
All 3 are doing great. Our doctor uses a regular full term chart to measure the kids. He thinks they are all developmentally normal for 4 months. I think they may be a little on the slow side, i.e. not really holding onto objects, but he says there are full term babies that cannot at this point either. It does look like we will have to go get Ryan's head checked out for a helmet. It has a pretty flat angle across the back. Luckily, our Children's Hospital has a clinic that can fit him right in Denver if they determine he needs one. The only other issue is that they have been getting yeast infections under their necks lately from heat and wetness, but its just something we're going to have to stay on top of. It doesn't appear to bother the kids too much, so that's a good thing. We're so lucky to have 2 pediatricians in the family (Joe's sister Gretchen and my sister Erin), so we usually get several opinions whenever we're concerned about anything!
Here's their official stats:
Ryan: 15lbs 10 oz. 70% percentile of both height and weight!!
Caitlin: 11lbs 11oz 10% percentile weight and 4th in height
Madison: 11lbs even 5th percentile weight and 3rd in height
He said if he would take them back 6 weeks based on their prematurity, Ryan would be in the 97th percentile of both height & weight and the girls in about in the 50th. JP was always in the 90-97th, so its not too suprising!
And here are lots of new pics:
Ryan: aka- Tub of Large (JP didn't know Dad really said lard!), Largie, Ryan the ferocious Lion.
He's such a sweet big bear!
Caitlin: Caiti Lady, Caiti Girl
Just about as easygoing as you can get. She would rather smile and talk to you than eat most of the time!
Madison: Madigans, Mad Maddi, Scrappy Mads
This girl is the feisty one. If one's awake- it's Maddi, if one's not happy- it's Maddi (but she's so darn cute!)
JP performing his "magic" on the girls to keep them quiet during fussy time.
See why we get them confused? Caitlin then Maddi
Caiti, Ryan, Maddi
JP and Caitlin
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