Blog | Checkup and ...
Today Brianna went to the doctor for her 2 month checkup and some shots. She now weighs 9 lbs. 8.5 oz. (10th percentile), is 22.25″ long (50th percentile), and has a head circumference of 39.5 cm (75th percentile — thanks Daddy). The doctor says she is doing great! After I asked a lot of questions about a lot of different things (gotta love being an engineer), Brianna received her first vaccines for DTaP (diptheria, tetanus, and pertussis), Rotavirus, and haemophilus influenza type b (Hib). Of course, she did not like getting the shots, but she did very well — I think I had more trouble with the whole thing than she did!
We have opted for an alternative vaccine schedule that spreads out her vaccines a bit. When Jason and I were babies, we had received ~9 shots by our fifth birthdays. The current vaccine schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a whopping 25 shots (not counting flu shots) by the child’s second birthday and a total of 29 shots by the child’s fifth birthday! The alternative schedule we are using provides her with 23 shots by her second birthday, 27 shots by her fifth birthday, and spreads them out a bit so that she doesn’t get them all at once. This may mean more trips to the doctor, but I am more comfortable with that. The end result of all of this today is that she has a bit of a fever now, but that is not usual so we will just hang out, snuggle with her, and give her some Tylenol as necessary.
