Reagan's 4 Month Check Up

Monday was Reagan's 4 month check up. He is now 24 inches long, weighs 13 pounds, 12 ounces, and has a head circumference of 42 centimeters. When he was born, he was 6 pounds, 13 ounces, was 19 inches long and had a head circumference of 35 centimeters. He is a little small for his age. For height, he is in the 10-25 percentile, for weight and head circumference he is 25-50 percentile. The doctor said that he is holding his head up very well and that he is very alert. He smiled and cooed to the doctor and when she put her stethoscope on his chest, he picked it up and handed it back to her.

When Reagan was born, the pediatrician at the hospital would not circumcise him because she said that he has hypospadias. This basically means that the hole in his boy part is a little bit longer than it should be. Our pediatrician referred us to a children's urologist, whom we have already had one appointment with. They want to schedule a surgery to fix it once he is about 6 months old. Darrell did alot of research on it and apparently 1 in 200 baby boys are born with this. The urologist said that he performs about 70 of these surgeries a year and that it is becoming alot more common. Reagan is fine and perfectly healthy, but the pediatrician said that not fixing this early would result in problems when we get ready to potty train. Here's a link with more information on hypospadias from the Mayo Clinic.http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hypospadias/DS00884

We have a pretty good night time routine down for Reagan. His bath is about 8:15, we will feed him and he will take a little snooze on the couch. About 9, we go upstairs to bed. I will cuddle with Reagan and he cuddles with his giraffe. About 9:30, he gets swaddled in his super awesome swaddle blanket and then he will go to sleep and Darrell will take him to his crib. Here are some pictures of the sweet little guy snuggling with his giraffe.

I am so excited for the upcoming long weekend. Darrell is working most of the weekend because it is the last weekend of the legislative session and there's a good chance that Darrell will have some long days/turning into nights this weekend. I am off on Monday for the Memorial Day holiday and I went ahead and took Friday off too. Mom, Reagan, and I are going up to the Dallas area to see our family. The last time we were up there, Reagan was only 4 months old. The family can hardly wait to see him again!

It will be one year ago tomorrow that I took the pregnancy test and we found out we found out the baby was on the way! What a year it has been!!