Lexi is 4 1/2 months old! I meant to do another post after her 4 month well-baby with her stats but I got too busy (imagine that!). Here's her stats from birth to 4 months:
Birth: 6lbs 1oz, 19inches
1 weeks: 5lbs 8oz (no length because they measured her wrong!)
2 weeks: 7lbs 8oz (19.69 percentile), 20inches (30.52 percentile), 36cm (44.56 percentile)
2 month: 11lbs, 2oz, 22.5inches, 39cm (I can't find the sheet with the percentiles)
4 month: 13lb, 6oz (50.58 percentile), 24inches (47.33 percentile), 41cm (56.90 percentile)
She's right about average for all her measurements so that's good to hear! I can tell she's definitely getting heavier. The carseat is getting harder and harder to lug around. And when I hold her for an extended period of time by back is killing me!
She's going on her second cold already. This time it's combined with a cough though. I ended up taking her to the doc on Friday because she would get into these coughing fits where her face would turn bright red and she'd hold her breath for a few seconds. Plus she had a temp of 100.3. When we got to the doc her temp was up to 100.9, but the doc said it was just a regular old cold. Unfortunately there's not much you can do for babies when they have a cold because you can't give them medicine. We give her a bath and use the Johnson and Johnson's Vapor Bath, use a humidifier, propped her mattress up, and snuggle a lot :-) She's actually been in pretty good spirits considering. I'm just hoping this goes away soon!
A couple of weeks ago I had a major scare. I was at work and the daycare called and said she had a temperature of 106. I didn't really know at that point what was considered a serious temperature, but I figured 106 was pretty bad. I pretty much jumped out of my chair and headed over to the daycare. On my way out the door I called Brian freaking out because I didn't even know what I was supposed to do when I got her, like if I take her to the ER or what. Then I called the pediatrician and as I was on hold for a nurse it hit me....did they say 106 or 100.6. That's a pretty big difference. So when the nurse gets on I tell her the daycare had called and said she had a temperature and I'm pretty sure they said 106. The nurse said if it's 106 she needs to go straight to the ER, but if it's 100.6, she'll be okay. I was almost at the daycare so the nurse told me to call her back once I confirmed the temp. As I'm walking into the daycare I realized no one really seemed frantic and when the girl called me she seemed pretty calm too. Well when I got inside, the girl explained that she said one-hundred and six, which apparently means 100.6. Not sure how she would say 106 then, but I was definitely relieved to find out it wasn't 106! I ended up taking her home anyways to monitor her but she was fine. I'm assuming the temp was from getting her vaccinations the day before but who knows!
We started giving her rice cereal at night. The first time she really didn't like it but she's getting better and better each day. Once she's got the hang of it we'll start giving it to her once in the morning and once in the evening.
We just bought a new Christmas tree yesterday and I can't wait to put it up (less than 2 weeks!). This Christmas is going to be so fun this year with her! I told Brian I want to go all out for decorations!
