Letter to my son
Dear Son, Just recently, you went to the doctor’s office for your 18-month appointment. You were two weeks away from being 19 months old, but it was the earliest we could make the appointment with Dr. Heller. You didn’t want to stand up on the big boy scale. Fortunately, you did sit in the baby scale. From 15 months to 18 ½ months, you only gained 1 pound. This bothered me, but I also remembered reading that after 15 months, babies slow down in their rate of weight, mainly because children are walking off baby fat. In the waiting room. You grew a little… but according to the nurse, your head shrunk! Huh?! The doctor came back in to do another measurement. You don’t like anything on your head, not even a tape measurer. You cried as if someone was wrapping your head in something hot and the minute it was off, you were perfectly happy again. The doctor said that your height, weight and head measur...