One Year Well Visit

Today Belalu had her one-year well visit. She's actually 13 1/2 months, but I called at the last minute for an appointment and we had to wait this long to get in. Here are the stats for the AH growth chart:

Weight: 19lbs, 11 oz or 8.93kg = 10th percentile
Height: 27" or 68.6 cm = under 3rd percentile
Head: 19" or 48 cm = over 97th percentile

As we already knew from our PT appointment, Belalu has blown past the 12 month milestones and has actually gotten most of the 15 month ones down alreay.

She's walking, waving and saying "bye-bye", says Mama and Papa, that, hola and hi, signs when she's all done, gives hugs and kisses, feeds herself, scribbles with a crayon, puts small objects and different shapes in their corresponding holes, stoops and recovers. She likes to drink from a cup, but gets most of it down the front of her. She understands "no" and "cacaplá" the sound we make with corresponding tongue out if she tries to eat something she shouldn't.

She loves to put on necklaces and bracelets, and then shakes her wrist or walks around patting her tummy and the beads. She'll point to pictures on the wall and say "that" so we'll talk about them with her- really she points at everything and does that, but we do it as a bedtime routine up the stairs and in her room with all the pictures along the way. She loves being outside, playing in sand and water and on the boat, even if it's parked in front of the house.

She is so communicative these days. She points at things and "talks" about them. The past few nights have been cooler, so she's been sleeping in footed jammies. When she wakes up in the morning, she'll start talking in her crib, and when I come in to get her, she's standing up, holding her foot up and pointing at it, "talking" - clearly showing me that her foot has gotten caught in her pajama leg and she wants it back in the foot part. She also looooves taking off her shoes and telling us to put them back on her feet.

She currently has three molars coming in (the first is already all up), but even so, she's been really sweet lately and a lot of fun to have around. She loves playing with her brother and gives him lots of kisses and hugs, along with her Cabbage Patch preemie who came with the name Bella Liv so my mom just had to get it for her. It's the perfect size for her to carry around, and sometimes I'll come in her room in the morning, and she'll be sitting and hugging her baby.

Whew! I didn't mean to go on and on. We're having so much fun with her and enjoying playing and spending time together. Now, if I could just get her to settle in the car so we could drive medium-to-long distances in peace, things would be near-perfect!

More Details from Last Week's Appointment

We got a summary in the mail from Belalu's appointments last week. They used the AH growth charts for her.

Weight: 18lbs 13oz = 35th percentile
Length 25 inches = less than 3rd percentile
Weight for Length = 90th percentile
Head Circumference the letter says 19in (it's actually 18.75) = 1 standard deviation above 100th percentile

For the PT appoint, they looked at tone, motor patterns and fine and gross motor skills, using the Infanib and Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (2nd edition). Her total Infanib score was 92. For a one-year old, any score above an 82 is considered within the "normal" range. She had appropriate responses for all items except: greater hip abduction "than we might expect," very minimal foot grasp and is not yet showing backwards protective responses. "These last two are likely relation to not yet walking independently." It said the increased hip range "is related to her mild low tone." No mention made of her hypochondroplasia and how that is affecting her tone and flexibility.

On the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, she was actually above her age range in some areas:
Stationary and Grasping at 14 months and Object Manipulation at 13 months. She was 12 months for Visual Motor Integration and 11 months for Locomotion, which are both considered "average" scores for her age.

Showing Off that Increased Hip Range :)

Her overall gross motor quotient was 100 and her fine motor quotient was 106. Any motor quotient score between 90-110 is considered average.

It was overall a pretty uneventful day, which is good compared to the last few visits there. I still need to schedule her one year well-check visit with her regular ped at the hospital in town. I keep forgetting since we've had so many Dr.s' appointments in the past few months.