18 Month Stats

Reina will be 1.5 years old on July 4th. Since we're flying out on the first, we went for her 18month well-baby visit today. She had a terrible time. I have never seen her so unhappy. As soon as I even thought about putting her on the scale for her initial vitals she started to cry. After the torture of having her weight, height, blood pressure and temperature taken we went to wait in a room for the doctor. Our "old" doctor recently moved, so we had to see a new pediatrician (she was great). Reina was pretty good until the doctor had to start touching her...looking in her ears, eyes, checking her legs, etc. Mind you this is all before the really bad part - when some poor guy has to come in and give her a shot. And yes, this was the first visit when she only got one. So, Reina pretty much cried from about 1 - 1:30.

Then we went up to radiology b/c the doc wanted to check out Reina's tummy (she has some bathroom problems, I'll leave it at that). This was another form of torture...so again, I literally had to have her pried off of me and then hold her down for the x-ray. The tech said my hand was in the picture, but I think both of us knew trying again was pointless. After all of this we went home and Reina was quite ready for a nap. We were surprised to find her happy in her crib after her nap, reading a book to herself. Hopefully she is at peace with the world.

Oh. And her stats. She is in the 20th percentile for weight and height (22.5lbs and 30.5 inches). She is in the 40th percentile for head circumference. Aside from the cruel and unusual punishment, Reina got a clean bill of health. Glad we don't have to go back there for another 6 months!