all good

on wednesday percy and i fronted up at the camperdown early childhood health centre. cripes that's a long name.
i hadn't been before which might be quite slack parenting on our behalf, so didn't really know what to expect. i know some kids are whisked off to health workers at every opportunity but i'm just not that type of person. perhaps because i've never really dealt with any serious health issues myself; i don't have an understanding what it's like to be ill and frightened or feel that way for my child.

for her first ten weeks at home jan came to see us. then she had her 4 month vaccinations at the british medical centre in kiev, she was home in time to only be a little late for her six months vaccinations, we kinda skipped seven and eight months, nine months was at christmas and just too difficult and here we arrive at ten months.

after a short wait we went into an examination room and spoke with a nice nurse? doctor? what are the qualifications of the people who staff these centres? i dunno.
percy was weighed and measured and discussed and wanted just to play with the security pass and set of keys hung around our nurse's neck (i'll go wiwth nurse.) she's all okay. she's in the 75th percentile for length and the 25th for weight, so she's long and lean. better lean than fat we were told. apparently the best measure for a babys growth and development is head circumference. this shows the brain is growing. percy's got a big head, tho once again i can't recall the actual measurement. so she's a lollipop- big head on a narrow body! that's not funny.

the slight rash on her bum was put down to fungal something, related to teething. we have cream that is fixing the problem already.
we did discuss her sleeping and eating. the advice was if we want to try controlled crying we need to stick with it for a week. not doing it. just can't. just won't.
on an interesting note about this tho, on wednesday nite and again last nite percy only woke for one feed. are we seeing the beginning of a trend? i'm not getting my hopes up yet. it would be nice tho, wouldn't it? one feed around 10pm to midnite would be so easy knowing we needn't be getting up again between 2am and 4am. cross fingers but don't hold breath...