Elizabeth’s Progress
Many of you have asked how Elizabeth is doing and others have not known what’s up or what the context of the “how she’s doing” is, so I thought it good to share here is what’s going on w/Elizabeth and her health and development so that you may have as complete a picture as you desire and know where we’re at.
For context, as kids grow, their height and weight are plotted on a chart and generally these statistics follow a certain growth curve. Physicians don’t look for particular weights but for steady growth on the curve w/o significant deviation. Back in early March, she weighed 15 lbs., 4 oz. This was a slight dip in her curve so we began to watch her growth but were not at that point concerned.
Of additional interest were that her gross motor development showed some more significant deviations from the “norm”, in that she hardly if ever rolled over and was not able to stand or get herself into or out of a sitting position, all of which are quite normal at a year of age.
At Elizabeth’s “one-year checkup” in early April (she was actually about 13 months) she weighed 15 lbs. 8 oz. and was still not rolling over etc. Her height and head circumference, as well as other areas of physical development, continued to progress along the curve and in normal fashions. The doctor recommended some diagnostics be done to see if there was a cause for the gross motor delays and her not gaining weight as she ought to.
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