6 month pediatrician visit

Weight: 16 pounds 2 ounces (55th percentile)
Height: 26.5 inches (75th percentile)
Head Circumference: 43.25 cm. (75th percentile)

Vaccines: DTap, Hib, IPV, Hep B, Pneumococcal, RotaTeq

It's time to start Audrey on veggies. She's been eating rice cereal really well for a month now. I stopped at HEB on the way home and got her some sweet potatoes, peas, and carrots. I decided to try making my own baby food. She had peas today and really liked them. A 99 cent bag of peas made a ton of baby food, so I'll freeze a bunch of it in ice cube trays. He said to give her fruits in a few weeks after she's had several veggies, then give her meats at 8-9 months. She can have Veggie Poofs after she starts to get teeth. After I fed her the peas I remembered reading that they can cause gas and colic for really sensitive babies (although they are a standard "first food"), so I guess we'll se how she does. Right now she can have 2-3 tablespoons of veggies 2-3 times per day and she should continue eating rice cereal.

She's been really cranky for the last few days. Could either be teething or the reflux. She's fussy, crying a lot, chewing on her fingers, scratching her ears, and not nursing well. We don't feel any teeth yet though. She's old enough that she can take baby Motrin (1.25 ml) and the doc said he thought that it worked better than Tylenol, so I picked up some of that at the store too. Since she's put on weight we also adjusted her Zantac dose from 1.3 ml to 1.5 ml.

She had a hissy fit after getting her shots and took about 15 minutes to stop crying, but now she's in a really good mood. She also got pretty upset when he dug the wax out of her ear. He wanted to get a good look at the eardrum just in case she had an infection (which she doesn't). They just dug out wax a month ago and she had build up again, but not so bad this time. He said some babies just make a lot of wax.

There's a free program called Infant See (www.infantsee.org). They do free vision assessments for babies 6-12 months to try to catch any early eye conditions. We'll probably look into that in the next few months.