They grow so fast!

[samantha2074]

Jorie's four-month check-up was yesterday. In four months, nine days, she's more than doubled her birth weight and is now a whopping 15 lbs 13 oz. That puts her in the 85th percentile for weight. At 26 inches (to the extent this measurement is accurate) she's in the 95th percentile for height. Her head diameter clocks in at 50th percentile, making

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[kerri9494]

I don't get doctors who share their personal opinions on decisions such as co-sleeping, circumcision, and other items of personal preference, especially if they're not asked. Sure, there's evidence that shows that co-sleeping parents have smooshed their kids. And in virtually all of those cases, the parents were either under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or were smokers (which for some reason seems to make a difference).

I co-slept with Spud on and off until he was well past his fifth birthday. We went to bed together when he was a baby, and when he got older, I'd put him to sleep in his crib, but he'd be awake and crying by 1-3 a.m. so I'd have to get up and get him anyway. Finally, at 14 months he was in a toddler bed, and he'd go to sleep there, then climb into my bed sometime between 1 and 3. I only made him stop doing that when he was so big and so active when he slept that *I* couldn't sleep. And he never got smooshed, either. :-)

And she's VERY cute. MORE PICTURES!! (After you finish the laundry, shopping, and dishes, of course.)

[mmcirvin]

As primary photographer for the family, my posting of Jorie photos was interrupted when I went to California for a week and then got sick and was run ragged with baby, work and Christmas stuff after that.

But I've actually got some pictures saved up. I still need to post some of the photos from the weekend before last when Sam's brother Brian, his wife Christine and daughter Jade were here--Jade is still as cute as ever, and there are some of Jorie too. We went to cut and decorate Sam's mother's Christmas tree; the macro shots of Christmas-tree bulbs were the one bit I got around to posting.

I also have our Official Holiday Photo of Jorie, a dangerously adorable picture that I took last weekend through the classic technique of taking about 225 shots and picking the one good one (since Jorie hadn't been cooperative on the day Sam was planning to get a professional photo taken). It is currently a snail-mail exclusive but I'll post it for the world sometime in the next few days.

[samantha2074]

I'm a little surprised at this attitude from the pediatrician we've been seeing given that she's probably not even over forty. Her outlook seems old-fashioned. When I commented on Jorie's improved self-soothing skills, she said something to the effect that the most important goal of the first six months was training the baby to be more self-sufficient and then mentioned all that bonding stuff as an afterthought. Seriously? I'm glad Jorie can amuse herself for ten minutes while I do something really quick, but it's something she's developing on her own terms, not mine.

I think I'm going to try and find another doctor. I was actually recommended to another doctor in the practice, but appointments for him are booked months in advance and I needed to get Jorie in sooner than that. So I took whatever doctor they had available. It's probably to late to get him to see her for her six-month check-up, but I may call and try to schedule the one after that with him.

I defer to Matt in the picture department. I'm glad you think she's cute.