At 9 months old, Xaris Sofia stands a whopping 27.25 inches tall (40th percentile).
Her head circumference is 17.24 (45th percentile).
Unfortunately, she's only grown longer, and hasn't gained any weight in a month, so she's at 15 lbs, 10.5 oz, a mere 5th percentile. We've got a long, lean baby for now. She was getting pretty chubby several weeks ago, so I suppose it was just preparation for this growth spurt in height!
We had a traumatic day at the lab getting blood taken for some routine tests (lead and anemia I think?) However, it was so difficult for them to find a vein (2 sticks and lots of digging around), before they decided to do a finger prick and just "milk" the blood out. I ended up yelling at one of the phlebotomists--she came to help, but didn't listen and shook the vial of blood without putting the top on first. Result: blood spilled everywhere and they needed to take more from Xaris.
Final result, X doesn't seem any worse for the wear, but I'm still mad that we had to do this and called our dr's office to talk with the nurse and the office manager. I let them know that I would not be taking her to get any more "routine" blood work or anything else of the sort unless they can send me to someone who specializes in infants/peds. But I'm curious--for those of you who have 9 month or older babies--did you have to do these tests? I might start fighting some of the things they just want me to automatically do here, unless the dr. convinces me how necessary it is. What were the 9 month things you had to do? (Or---maybe I should think ahead--what happens at 12 months? 15?)
Not sure if this is just one of those living-in-the-south things, or if it's actually a horrible ordeal that we just have to endure?
