Cale: Six Month Checkup

This afternoon, we went to Cale's six month well-child-checkup. He is now 27" tall (75th percentile), 18 pounds 3.4 ounces (60th percentile), 17.75" head circumference (85th percentile), and up-to-date on his vaccinations (polio in the US in 2005: it should be history!). So although his weight at 6 months is Karston's weight at 15 months (other measures more like Karston at 10 to 11 months old), he's following Karston's pattern of higher percentiles for height and head circumference than for weight but overall fairly proportional.

Following the doctor's advice at Cale's 4-month wcc, I learned that I could eliminate his 5-times-a-day dark green poops (in exchange for once daily typical yellow ones) by eliminating dairy from my diet. This time, as a followup, I told Dr Starnes that Cale seems to sleep better at night when I also don't eat soy. She said that 60% of children with this milk protein allergy also have the soy protein allergy, so that fits. I was going to follow the scientific method and have some soy to see what happens, but I don't want to lose sleep just to prove what's already likely. Now that I have children, sleep is more precious than ever!

Cale didn't like getting his shots, but that could have been lying down (he wants to be held upright so he can look around) without being cuddled. He stopped within a minute of being picked up! So he's a real trooper about his shots too.

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