We had your 18 month appointment today and you were 20 lb 10.5 oz. This is the 10th percentile for weight for an 18 month old! and the 25th percentile for a 14 month old! This is a HUGE jump onto the charts!!! Dr. Brown was very pleased and said you were getting chubby! Your growth chart for your length wasn't quite as big of a jump, but you are still making progress. 30 inches which is the 2nd percentile for an 18 month old and 15% for a 14 month old corrected.
He also put in for a audiology check-up to follow-up on your hearing because lots of NICU babies have high frequency hearing loss from all of the machines and medicine. He also suggested we start speech therapy because the only communication you are giving us at the moment is signing "more." You seem to have forgotten all of the other words that we thought you had learned. It has definitely been on my radar, but I'm not too worried about it yet. We compromised to wait till you are 20 months old and see if there is any progress because I don't want to add speech therapy on to the other appointments and commitments we have right now.
You have 10 teeth! Your molars on the top are in. The bottom molars are bulging but haven't broken through.
Your favorite toys are the Fisher Price car ramp - you love to put the cars down the ramp over and over and over again. Another favorite are the Sassy baby beads from the BPD clinic. You love to empty the bucket and fill it again and again. They are vanilla scented which makes it an extra fun toy. You also like to close all the animals on the Playskool pop up toy.
Cute things about you...you like to clap for yourself. You love to play chase or hide and seek peekaboo with your siblings. You can almost do a pull up on the table or the tv stand. You are very strong! One day David was sitting on the bench at the table you pushed the bench WHILE he was still sitting on it. It was at least 40 lbs!
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