2011-07-27

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Ain't no stoppin' us now, we're on the move

Look out...we have a crawling baby on our hands! We're so excited! Livvie's been crawling for a little more than a week now, and you'd think she's been doing it for months at the speed she's going. She started crawling the night before her 9-month check up with the pediatrician. When the NP asked if Livvie was pulling to stand, I said not yet but she literally JUST started crawling. She said not to worry, that Liv would be standing and cruising around the furniture in no time (in fact, she's just started to pull to stand in the last few days).

Olivia's official nine month stats are 30 inches tall and 22 pounds. I was a little concerned because she's bigger than other babies her age and even some that are older. I addressed my concerns with the NP, and she didn't think this was anything to worry about. She's really tall (99th %), and even though she's already over 20 pounds, once she starts to really crawl and walk and move around, she'll use a lot more of that energy and she'll either lose a little weight, or at least she'll not gain as much. We'll wait and see how she is at her one-year check up. She's on track to triple her birth weight (which I read somewhere is the average thing to do).