One Year Stats

For the record books, Jackson's one year stats:

• Weight: 25 lbs. 10 oz. - 84th percentile
• Height: 29 1/2 in. - 39th percentile
• Head: 18.5 in - 67th percentile

Essentially, since his last visit at 9 months, he grew an inch and gained a pound. While he's still a big boy, he's come down a bit on the weight bell curve, just as we expected would happen as he becomes more mobile and active.

We will now start the transition to whole milk and wean off the bottle. The doctor would like to see him completely off the bottle (even at bedtime) before our next visit at 15 months. I don't think Jack will have a problem with that. He loves drinking out of cups. I, on the other hand, am not ready to give up the nighttime bottle/cuddle session. I guess I have 3 months to come to terms with that one!

No more baby food. We've already been doing this one, so nothing to change there. Jack is a great eater and much prefers feeding himself to being fed. At this point, the only restrictions are hard foods (candy, popcorn, etc.) and peanut butter. The only reason peanut butter is on that list is because Dr. Blum wants us to beware of allergies. He thought Jack's eyes looked a bit puffy and because of my red hair, Jack's blue eyes (all recessive genes I believe) he could be more susceptible to allergies. Therefore, we'll hold off on the nuts/peanut butter until 15 months.

Which reminds me, Dr. Peterlin has left the practice. We loved Dr. Peterlin and debated moving Jackson to a Lawrence doctor when we heard she would be leaving, but we have been so happy at the Pediatric Partners practice we decided to stay with them. They are affiliated with the best Children's Hospital in the Kansas City metro area and that alone is enough reason to stay. Today was our first appointment with Dr. Blum, the founding partner at the practice. Dr. Blum was the one who caught Jackson's jaundice when he was 2 days old so we had seen him before. He has a very different style than Dr. Peterlin, but I was comfortable with him.

Overall it was quite uneventful. Here's to another clean bill of health!