We had to go see the Pediatrician on Monday. It was a little soon for Ben, but they wanted Alex seen within 48 hours of discharge.
Everything went well. She was very nice. The office is relatively close to our house. It is right on the edge of town facing us, so we just have to take the highway into town to get there. Unfortunately, it shares a building and waiting room with an adult physicians clinic. My healthy babies were in the waiting room with a bunch of sick, hacking adults. Not as cool... but in a relatively small town I guess I'll just be happy we have a specialist at all.
Ben is 5 lbs 12 oz and 18"
Alex is 5 lbs 15 oz and 18.25"
They compare our babies to 5 week olds, so they are in the 0 percentile for height and weight. Our babies are technically 5 weeks, but preemies usually get their age adjusted down so you're not comparing them to babies that were full term and are now 5 weeks old. Our babies would only be like 38 weeks right now if they were still in the womb. They are in the 11th percentile for head size though! My boys have gigantic noggins. I can only imagine what percentile their heads would be if you compared them against other 5-6 lb babies. Probably off the charts huge.
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