Comments | psychohist: Duncan 18 month checkup

psychohist

Duncan 18 month checkup

Aug 18, 2011 02:24

Weight: dropped from perhaps 2nd percentile to perhaps 1st percentile. Height: rose from about 10th percentile to about 25th percentile.

I'm not sure whether that means our emphasis on getting food into him is working or not.

duncan, family, children

Comments 2

enugent August 22 2011, 18:10:41 UTC

If you want to know the exact percentile numbers, you can get the parameters for a model distribution for each month here: http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data_tables.htm

My personal opinion is that you must be feeding him enough to support his growth if he's able to make that big a percentile jump in height. It sounds like he's just using it all for building height immediately instead of keeping any of it in reserve. Are the doctors pushing you to tube-feed, or just encouraging you to keep doing what you're doing, or what?

Did either (or both) of your and Elizabeth's parents keep a baby book where they recorded this information? I found it sort of reassuring to compare my kids' data to their parents'. Howard's weight bothered me less when I could see that his father had been somewhat shorter and even heavier. Maybe Duncan's not as far off his parents' curves as he is off the imaginary "normal" chart.

psychohist August 22 2011, 21:48:24 UTC

Our pediatrician isn't really pushing anything; he was originally of the opinion that it was not dietary since head circumference and behavior were progressing fine, but I think now he's deferring to the endocrinologist. We agreed with the endocrinologist to try feeding him more for three months before getting more invasive testing, and we're half way through that period. If he continues on his recent trajectory, he'll be average height and off the chart low in weight by then, and I'll be very interested to see what her assessment is, after she makes the nurses remeasure him and is convinced the measurements are real ( ... )