As it is now 6 weeks since Ollie made his debut, we had our check-ups with the obstretician and paedetrician today.
We both received a clean bill of health with Ollie kicking massive goals in the weight gain stakes, as anyone who has seen him recently can attest to.
When he was born, Ollie weighed 3.72kg, had a head circumference of 34.5cm and was 51.5cm long. The last time we had him weighed on 5 February he was 4.52kg. Today he weighed a massive 5.5kg - so in the last fortnight he has put on almost 1kg!!! I am starting to think that I am producing chocolate milk vs. normal boob milk as babies are only meant to be putting on around 200-ish grams each week. But no one is complaining - you can't overfeed a breastfed baby and it sure beats worrying about a skinny baby who isn't putting on much weight.
In the other stats, Ollie has grown a total of 7cm in length and his head circumference is 4.5cm bigger.
That puts Ollie in the 50th percentile for head size and 75th for both length and weight. He certainly is a bit of a solid unit!
The highlight of the visit was when the paedetrician was pushing (naked) Ollie's legs around and he let out this MASSIVE fart. I'm not to grown up to admit that it was absolutely hilarious. Fart jokes never stop being funny.
The best thing is that for the first time in nine months we don't have a single doctor's appointment scheduled.
We both received a clean bill of health with Ollie kicking massive goals in the weight gain stakes, as anyone who has seen him recently can attest to.
When he was born, Ollie weighed 3.72kg, had a head circumference of 34.5cm and was 51.5cm long. The last time we had him weighed on 5 February he was 4.52kg. Today he weighed a massive 5.5kg - so in the last fortnight he has put on almost 1kg!!! I am starting to think that I am producing chocolate milk vs. normal boob milk as babies are only meant to be putting on around 200-ish grams each week. But no one is complaining - you can't overfeed a breastfed baby and it sure beats worrying about a skinny baby who isn't putting on much weight.
In the other stats, Ollie has grown a total of 7cm in length and his head circumference is 4.5cm bigger.
That puts Ollie in the 50th percentile for head size and 75th for both length and weight. He certainly is a bit of a solid unit!
The highlight of the visit was when the paedetrician was pushing (naked) Ollie's legs around and he let out this MASSIVE fart. I'm not to grown up to admit that it was absolutely hilarious. Fart jokes never stop being funny.
The best thing is that for the first time in nine months we don't have a single doctor's appointment scheduled.
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