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Grommet catch-up. 2007-05-01 - 9:37 a.m. The long-time readers (both of you) may have noticed, but I stopped doing the monthly letter to Grommet when she hit the year mark. She�s still growing and changing but I thought it might get old to read �wow! I can�t believe how fast the month has gone and all you�ve done during it!� every month. She�s now 15 months old and no, she�s not talking in full sentences; no she�s not sleeping through the night routinely (though she did sleep through on a total of two glorious occasions � the only times I�ve slept more than a few hours in a row since she was born); and no, she�s not walking. She�s been cruising (walking while holding onto furniture, us, and toys with wheels) around for exactly six months now, but she�s been coaxed into taking exactly one unsupported step twice so far. Am I worried? Nope. She�ll talk our ears off, sleep through more and more nights, and start walking (probably followed shortly by running) eventually. Am I getting tired of people asking about these things with a faintly concerned tilt to their eyebrows? Yep. Just a little. Fortunately for us though, Grommet still looks young for her age (and still weighs less than twenty pounds) so it doesn�t occur to most to expect her to talk and walk. And most people seem to assume that all babies over six months sleep through the night so don�t bother asking. Hah! My sister in-law had the opposite situation with our niece in the sense that she was huge � like, almost the size of a 2-year-old � and at a year still not even rolling over. Consequently, she got the �concerned� questions a lot more than we did. I�m glad I�m not in her situation: I�ve got a lot less patience for that sort of thing. Grommet got sick again about a week ago and was puking and then off her food for a few days. Just when she started getting back into the swing of things she took a big downturn and threw up every few hours for about 24 hours. Needless to say, she lost some of her hard-earned chub that we�d been working on building up on her. In fact, she weighed less at the end of it all than she had a few weeks earlier and had dropped back below the 15th percentile for weight. She�s been doing a lot better since though and is rounding out again. Here�s the kicker though, we took her to the doctor�s after the full day of puking (coincidentally, she perked up the instant we walked outside to go to the doctor�s, and never puked again. In fact, she was cooing and laughing for the doctor who�d squeezed her in for an emergency visit on our say-so that she was really sick. Go fig.) and want to guess what the diagnosis was? The doctor was about 80% certain that Grommet had suffered from a migraine that day. A MIGRAINE! At 15 months! Granted, she was pretty much doomed to get them eventually given both J�s and my history of getting them, but we never thought she�d start so soon. It�s rare for children that age to get migraines and even those that do are normally diagnosed in retrospect. Let�s hope she only gets hit with them rarely, and that when she�s old enough we find good ways to treat/control them for her.
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