6 months

Kate is now 6 month old. I love this age. It is also crazy that she has been around for 1/2 a year! Kate is still a fun, easy going baby. She is almost rolling from her back to her tummy, she can do it but doesn't get her arm out from under her yet. She can sit for a few seconds before falling over. She loves to reach everything, including my food. She especially reaches for my Diet Dr. Pepper, weird but funny. She recently has started solid foods. She is still learning to eat from a spoon. She gagged when I gave her carrots, Alyssa thinks this is hilarious. She is a tiny little girl. She weighed 13.2 lbs (8%) and was 23.1 inches (0%). This is concerning to me and her Dr. He asked me all these questions about how tall people were in my family and compared her height to Alyssa's. We had a long conversation about it. The problem is that she started normal height 70% and dramatically declined at 4 months and even more at 6 months. For example Alyssa was 23 inches at 2 months.  The only thing we can do right now is watch and weight (so hard!). He hopes that she will just go through a growth spurt and catch up. It is stressful to me because I know too much! I also have a program at work called Up to date. I can look up any medical topic and find the most up to date information. So of course I looked up an infant not growing taller and found all these reasons it could happen. So I worry about it but can do nothing about it and I just hope she grows. I am going to start measuring her on her month birthdays and track the progress. Her next check up is at 9 months. She is very cute with Alyssa. She watches everything she does, smiles and laughs at her.

First time in a swing