Saturday October 7, 2006
Zora, my little half pint
Poor sweetie. We now know why she has been miss cranky pants. She has an ear infection. She is on the same pink antibiotic I recognize from my own childhood. (the stuff you put in the fridge, a type of penicillin). She seemed a little better by this evening already, although that could have been a coincidence. I just shudder thinking how long she has been fighting this and I kept with the “her body will heal itself”, all the while she was hurting so much. Ug. This sucks.
On a different subject, she is still in the 3rd percentile. (about 15 lbs). Since she came off the preemie charts and stabilized, she has always been in the 3rd percentile (well, except that one time the substitute nurse measured her wrong and had her dropping off the charts again). I pulled up a growth chart to see what she would be for Christmas if she keeps on the same growth curve. (and then kept going through the chart I had, at 36 months.) After having Zane for a son, who was always double the “size” on labels (at 3 months, he wore 6 months…at 12 months, he was wearing 2T, until he hit 4T/5T, which he is still at.)
Anyway, when you break it down by height, this is where she will be on this growth curve:
right now: just growing out of 3-6 months. At the very top of it, but 6 months are baggy on her.
from Oct -> March or April of 2007 she will be in 6-12 months.
from March/April 2007 -> Sept/Oct of 2007, she will be in 12-18 months
from Sept/Oct 2007 -> March 2008, she will be in 18-24 months
from March -> past December 2008 (where the chart ends), she will be in 24months/2T.
Even weirder…lets look at this in European sizes, like Hanna Andersson uses:
she is at the top of size 60 right now (although I accidently put a 50 on her a week or two ago and got it on. lol)
in the next month she should start fitting into the 70s, and will stay there until next August or so.
The 80s will last an entire year, from August to August, and the 90s start August 2008 and go off the chart that ends in Dec 2008.
I can’t even comprehend a kid being in the same size from 19 months old to 31 months old.
When dd came, I couldn’t comprehend a child that actually wore the clothes that matched her age (ie: wearing 12m clothes at 12 months). Ds always wore at least 6m to a year ahead of his age.
At least Zora is growing – maybe she’s just petite. :-) I hope her ears feel better soon.