{"id":3031,"date":"2008-10-09T08:41:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T08:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/09\/thursday-baby-blogging-100908\/"},"modified":"2008-10-09T08:41:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T08:41:24","slug":"thursday-baby-blogging-100908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/09\/thursday-baby-blogging-100908\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Baby Blogging 100908"},"content":{"rendered":"

SteelyKid had her two-month check-up in Monday (her two-month birthday was Tuesday), and checking in with the medical profession means we’ve got the opportunity for some baby science. And it’s not science without graphs:<\/p>\n

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That’s SteelyKid’s weight as a function of time. Like most babies, she dropped a bit immediately after birth, but shot right back up, and has now been growing at a pretty good clip for the last eight-and-a-half weeks. We don’t have enough data points on her length to make a graph, but she’s increased substantially there, too, growing by 2.75″.<\/p>\n

To put these changes in perspective, the same proportional change for me would mean gaining 100 lbs and 10.6″. In two months. While eating nothing but milk.<\/p>\n

Babies are pretty amazing. Cute, too– don’t think I forgot about the weekly bison-for-scale picture:<\/p>\n

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As a bonus, you get not only her crib mirror, but also one of the happy little dinosaurs from her mobile. She’s actually grooving on the dinos in this picture, though five minutes later she morphed into Shrieky Baby, and I spent forty minutes carrying her around the house and yard trying to calm her down…<\/p>\n

Whee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SteelyKid had her two-month check-up in Monday (her two-month birthday was Tuesday), and checking in with the medical profession means we’ve got the opportunity for some baby science. And it’s not science without graphs: That’s SteelyKid’s weight as a function of time. Like most babies, she dropped a bit immediately after birth, but shot right… Continue reading Thursday Baby Blogging 100908<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}