9 Month Update- January 2010

Jane turned 9 months in January. This is such a fun age. She seems to be exploding with development! She is a fun little person who is curious about everything.


Although she doesn't officially crawl, she can get anywhere in the apartment. She scoots on her bum, rolls across the floor, crawls backwards, and pulls herself to standing. She is beginning to surprise me with what she can do and where she can go.

She understands when we are playing. She loves to hide and play peek-a-boo. She is playing with dad over the back of the couch in this picture.

She has discovered bath time is the best time. We recently moved her from the infant tub to the normal tub after a successful bath at Grandma's. She loves splashing and playing in the water with her toys. She seems to like how buoyant she becomes because she figured out how to move from stomach to sitting and seems to be working on crawling while in the water.
She loves her Dadada. He is a hard worker and is very busy with school, but he loves to give her some attention before bedtime and she soaks it up. She has always preferred her Mom, but she is quickly learning that Dada is so fun to play with.
She got her first sickness! Can you tell how miserable she was feeling? After a run-in with many cousins and family members over the holidays, she got a terrible runny nose and cough. I thought she would get over it in a week or so, and we didn't go in to the doctor's office for them to tell us it's a virus. When it was two weeks I realized she was rapidly getting much worse. The nurse told us to bring her to urgent care, where she was diagnosed with a virus (cough, runny nose) that evolved into a double-ear infection, sinus infection, and lung inflammation. So sad! After some antibiotics and a humidifier and another week or so, she is much better.

Jane's 9 month stats:

16 lbs 9 oz
27 inches tall

Apparently she is too small. She grows, just slower than other kids are growing at her age. Her growth is not following the usual curve. She started life around the 45th percentile and has dropped percentiles until this checkup around the 13th percentile. I told the pediatrician how much she eats (3-4 meals of about 4 ounces of fruits, veggies, and some baby cereal, plus breastfeeding 5-6 times a day). He said that follows recommendations but to offer more and higher calorie foods and see if she'll take it. She still won't eat anything that has texture (no finger foods). Only the perfectly pureed variety of foods will be consumed. Still no teeth.

Here she is, tearing apart, but not eating, the bread. Everything else goes in her mouth...

At Jane's 9 month checkup she was squirming and not allowing the doctor to get a good look...Not to mention, her SCREAMING because an unknown person is in the room with her being really nice and she is TERRIFIED. (Just to give her some credit, the last unknown person who acted really nice to her 20 minutes before gave her a booster flu shot...way to go Mommy...bad idea to do those at the same office visit.)

Pediatrician: Well, as far as I can tell she seems healthy... She won't. Stop. Moving.

Me: She had a super cold- sinus infection, ear infections, deep cough, and lung bronchiolitis last time we were in 1 1/2 weeks ago. Is she over it?
P: Her lungs seem fine to me. Listen to that scream...
P: Have you seen any signs of stranger anxiety? It hits about now.
Me: (Duh.) Yeah, sometimes. She usually just wants me.