18 Month Check Up

Today Noah had his 18 month doctor visit.  I was a little anxious for this one, just so I could talk to them about where he is at and where he should be.  First little man got weighed and measured and boy have his percentages changed in the last year.  He now weights 24 1/2 pounds and is 32 inches tall.  He is in the 32nd percentile for weight, which totally surprises me.  He was born and in the 90th percentile range the first 6 months of his life.  For height he is in the 42nd percentile.  He has grown 1 1/2 inches since his last visit.  So he definitely has gotten taller but pretty much stayed the same in weight. 

Other than that info we talked about eating, sleeping, and speech developments.  I could finally say at  this visit that he sleeps through the night consistently and finally has been for close to 6 months.  I could say he eats things with his fingers, since he has gotten so much better with his texture issues.  He still won't eat a lot of foods or even try a lot of things but at least we can get some healthy foods down and in a variety of food groups. 

Speech was my biggest concern.  We just were not quite sure if he was talking/ saying as many words as he should of been.  She asked me what he all said and said he is fine in that area.  Good news to hear.  She said over the next 6 months is when their speech really starts to take off so it should really grow from here on out.  Also they should start using words together soon as well, which I thought maybe he should of already been doing but I guess we are okay there.  So I guess in the next six months we will just really continue to work on getting him to talk more and not worry about him being behind.  We are already working on giving up the pacifier so that should help as well.  I am determined to have him done with it before Carson comes and hoping he won't want one back if Carson decides to be a paci baby as well.   We have him to where he only has it when he goes down for a nap/bedtime already.  That was easy we started that last week and if it's not around he has been doing fine without it.
Poor guy is going to have a lot of changes coming his way in the next few months and it's hard deciding when the best time to do things are.

Everything else she asked if Noah was doing, he does and does well (especially the stacking stuff, boy does he have that mastered).  So wheww!  We can just continue to enjoy our smart, energetic little boy!