Wellness check

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Last Thursday, we went to the doctor’s for Caitlyn’s wellness check and vaccination shots. Her length and head circumference are in the 85^th percentile, but her weight is slightly under the 50^th percentile.

She’s only gained slightly more than a kilogram since she’s been born. If this keeps up, it looks like she’s going to become a tall, skinny, highly intelligent supermodel when she grows up. Not a bad combination.

To help Caitlyn put on a little more mass, we’ve switched to the medium-sized nipple for her bottle. We’ve been thinking that the reason she doesn’t drink as much milk as she could is because sucking on the small-sized nipple was hard work for her and she’d get tired easily, thus giving up quickly.

While the medium-sized nipple has helped make drinking easier for her, it’s also made more milk spill out of her mouth because she can’t keep up with the increased flow. Either way, we’re wasting milk, but at least with the medium-sized nipple, she’s able to drink more, and more importantly, feeding time has been cut down from over an hour to under 30 minutes. That comes out to be about 3 hours of saved time a day, 21 hours for the week. Now that’s a time saver!

Getting checked out by the doctor

Sharing a sweet moment together

Waiting outside the doctor's office

Is it time for my shot yet?

Taking a nice walk in the mountains

The wife with big sister Sally and Jocelyn