Nine Month Check-up
Natalie saw the pediatrician this morning for a well-baby visit. This is the third doctor we’ve tried from Princeton Nassau Pediatrics. Dr. Hemrajani seemed a little young, but her bedside manner was phenomenal, especially after the last doctor who was curt and didn’t try to engage with Natalie at all.
Here are Natalie’s nine-month growth statistics (which the doctor wrote down in surprisingly neat penmanship!):
Weight: 20 lbs., 4 oz.: 80%
Height: 30 inches: >97% (The doc actually used the term “off the charts”!)
The only negative part of the visit was that Natalie had to get 4 shots! She cried and did her head-jerk thing she does when she’s really hysterical as a result of getting hurt or scared (even after giving her prophylactic ibuprofen). I realized that Natalie isn’t an infant anymore when nursing didn’t comfort her completely. I felt kinda sad about that. Thank goodness for Cheerios, which lived up to their name and cheered her up right away. She fell asleep in the car on the way home and napped for 2 whole hours!
Here she is with band-aids on her legs. I’m not sure why they use band-aids—pulling them off just adds to the pain of the shots and makes her cry all over again. Next time we’ll tell the nurse “no, thanks.”
afraid you might have tough luck declining the band-aids……they’re to “prevent infection”………..truthfully not much of an issue, but good luck convincing a western doc of that.