Last week we had Brinleigh's twelve month check up. Our little love bug weighed in at 21.5 lbs and is 27 3/4 inches tall, although I'm going to recheck this since those measurements would mean that she hasn't grown at all in the last two months. She is in the 10th percentile for height (she's a shorty) and in the 75th percentile for weight (she's also a little chunk). They seem pleased with her growth and development and didn't have any concerns or problems. Brinleigh was also due to get her 12 month vaccines. All together there are six shots and so they gave her three at this appointment and then we will go back in a month to get the other three. She was not a happy baby (understandably) and I hated having to hold her down and watch those crocodile tears stream down her face. Especially because she got so upset after the first shot and I knew there were still two more to go. My poor baby was practically hyperventilating she was crying so hard, it made my heart hurt. But when Daddy came back in the room (he doesn't stay in the room during her shots) he held her and got her calmed down again. We had to wait about twenty minutes for the nurse to make sure she didn't have any reactions and she passed out in Daddy's arms. It didn't help that the appointment ended up lasting two and half hours and well into her nap time.
We are also in the process of transitioning Brinleigh from formula to cows milk. When she was about eight months old I started supplementing with formula and by her birthday I had completely weaned her from breastfeeding all together. She was strictly getting formula for a couple weeks and now we are slowly adding cows milk to her formula. We have one more can of formula to get through and then she will be solely on cows milk.
Ever since Brinleigh first started drinking breast milk from bottles (at about a month old) I have made it a point to only give her milk in her bottles. I introduced her to juice at about nine months old in a sippy cup. I'm hoping that this will help us in weaning her off the bottle around eighteen months.
We still have a cabinet full of baby food, but once that is all gone we will be completely done with the pureed baby food, with the exception of the fruit pouches which are awesome while on the go.
