Growth chart

Before I started this blog, John and I used to keep a journal to chronicle milestones, major events, observations, etc. Basically, it was the much less frequently updated predecessor to this blog.

I was reading through it recently and came across notes on Evelyn's weight and height measurements at her various visits to the pediatrician. Unfortunately, I didn't write them all down (naively thinking that I'd never forget). But there's enough to see the general trend, which is that Evelyn basically gained a big chunk (so to speak) of her weight and height during her first 4 months, and then plateaued for the rest of her 9 months (to date). At the rate she was going, I panicked and bought her next car seat when she was only 4 months old, thinking that she'd surpass the 22lb limit of her infant seat within weeks. Up until that point, she'd been gaining about 1 lb a week!

Here are some of her growth stats:

• Birth: 8 lbs, 5 oz, 20 inches
• 2.5 months: 16 lbs, 2 oz
• 4 months: 19 lbs, 12 oz, 26 inches
• 9 months: 23 lbs, 28.5 inches
• 12 months: 24 lbs, 31 inches (90th percentile, down from being off the charts)
  

But who needs boring statistics when all you need is the hang-the-baby-upside-down method to chart her growth? The first picture below was taken in late June in Mendocino (10 months old) and the second was from just the other day (13 months old).