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<\/p>\nWe took Rosie in for her six-month well-baby doctor’s appointment yesterday. And, as we “already knew”:\/news\/2008\/our-big-dumpling\/, she is one big girl. <\/p>\n
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Considering the fact that Rosie has been barely squeezing into size 12-month clothes lately, as well as wearing the same size diapers as Lucy (size 4, even though two years separate them), we were pretty sure she was keeping up her prodigious growth rate. Dr. Minkus confirmed it with these numbers:<\/p>\n
_Weight:_ 21 lbs 2 oz (99th percentile)
\n_Height:_ 28¼” (99th percentile)
\n_Head circumference:_ 44 cm (86th percentile)<\/p>\n
And a few comparative facts (not to compare the girls, but we can’t really help it!):<\/p>\n
Lucy’s weight at 6 months: 15 lbs 2 oz
\nLucy got up to 21 lbs only at 18 months
\nLucy grew to 28″ only at 9 months (even though she, too, is above-average tall)
\nLucy’s head got to 44 cm only at around 10 months<\/p>\n
Rosie outweighs Lucy at this age by six pounds! Good thing they’re on the same team. And she certainly is proportional — and, we think, cute as a button. (It’s just a pretty big button.) Dr. Minkus was also impressed to learn that Rosie is rolling over both ways, scooting forward, and getting up on hands and knees and rocking. She is going to be ready for college before we know it!<\/p>\n
We’ve also decided to hold off on solids, following Dr. Minkus’s suggestion. We did give Rosie a taste of sweet potatoes a few days ago, but she wasn’t really that into it, and Minkus points out that she is growing just fine without it. So, as we did with Lucy, we’ll introduce some soft finger foods at eight months and just skip the whole pur\u00c3\u00a9ed thing. Which, frankly, is a relief to me: it’s one of my failings as a mother that I’ve never really gotten into that pur\u00c3\u00a9ed food thing, with the scraping and the coaxing and the bananas in the hair. (Not that bananas don’t get in the hair when they aren’t pureed, but it’s just different.)<\/p>\n
Lucy was a champion sister at the doctor’s office, playing “Patty Cake” with Rosie and encouraging her while she got her shots. She was really rooting for Rosie to get an M&M after them, but Rosie just got some milk instead. These two sisters are pretty terrific together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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