{"id":2061,"date":"2008-07-09T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T17:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2008-07-09T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T17:28:19","slug":"our-big-dumpling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2008\/our-big-dumpling\/","title":{"rendered":"Our big dumpling"},"content":{"rendered":"

We knew that Rosie has been growing really well and seems rather big for her age. But it wasn’t until yesterday that we learned just *how* big. Turns out that if there were 100 babies in the world, she’d be the biggest one. <\/p>\n

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p{color:gray}. Photo: Only 9 pounds lighter than Lucy, two years older.<\/p>\n

We’ve been pretty interested to get some hard facts on this girl’s rate of growth, so we faced this four-month well-baby visit with some enthusiasm. While in the waiting room, Jon and I even made preliminary guesses aloud to each other. Mama was very pleased when her guess proved to be exactly correct, to the very ounce: 17 lbs 5 oz! That puts Rosie at the 99th percentile in weight for babies her age. Her height measured 26″ — the 98th percentile. We’ve got one big baby on our hands! “Dr. Minkus”:http:\/\/www.enh.org\/apps\/findadoctor\/doctor.aspx?docid=244&lid=1789 even did a couple of reps with her like a dumbbell to squeeze in his daily workout. He particularly lauded her ability to roll over (which she has been doing for almost a month), saying that many big babies don’t roll over until comparatively late due to their extra baggage.<\/p>\n

Lucy was very supportive of Rosie during her well-baby visit, especially during the vaccinations, encouraging Rosie to “be very brave.” I was grateful that Jon could join us on this doctor visit — since I’m not entirely sure I can handle a 90-minute doctor’s appointment with a 70%-potty-trained toddler and a nursing baby. Maybe things will get a little easier in a few months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We knew that Rosie has been growing really well and seems rather big for her age. But it wasn’t until yesterday that we learned just *how* big. Turns out that if there were 100 babies in the world, she’d be the biggest one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}