Well visits

I was tidying up and came across the girls' well-visit papers from this past December. I love looking back at this sort of information about them. Willa was having her five year checkup, and June was having her 2 1/2 year.

Willa
5 years
Height - 43 inches, 52nd percentile (though, I think she's had a growth spurt since this, because   suddenly her dresses are much shorter on her)
Weight - 41.6 lbs, 57th percentile
Blood pressure - 92/52

June
2 1/2 years
Height - 36 3/4 inches, 52nd percentile
Weight - 26.1 lbs, 17th percentile
Head - 48 1/4 inches, 45th percentile

Two healthy girls. The doctor heard a faint heart murmur on June, but she said it sounded textbook like a Still's murmur, which is a heart murmur that occurs in two year olds and has no side effects. Children usually outgrow it pretty easily. We'll double check at her three-year check up and if it sounds differently we can send her in for more testing. The doctor wasn't worried about it and I'm not, but sometimes when I pick June up and she's been really emotional (tantrum, or maybe running), I can feel her little heart beating so quickly in her chest. I don't think anything is wrong with it, it just makes me think about her and our bodies a little more.

The doctor also suggested that I needed to make Willa use the bathroom more often during the day and that would help her stay dry at night. At the time of our visit, Willa was currently just going twice a day - at lunch and before bed. She always woke up with a wet diaper, so I didn't press her into going in the morning and sometimes at lunchtime she would fight with me about going because she didn't want to. The doctor thinks her bladder is stretched out so she can't really feel whether or not she needs to go and then it just kind of leaks out during the night. So now I'm being more vigilant about making her go several times a day, in the hopes that over the next two or three months the bladder will shrink up and she will be able to hold it overnight. We'll see. The doctor thinks it should help and says that most kids her age are dry through the night (heck, June is dry through the night), but I come from a family full of late bed-wetters on both sides so I didn't think it was particularly strange that she still wet the bed. In fact, it's kind of nice because her and Claire are both a little embarrassed about it, but then kind of relieved that they both still use diapers when we have stayed the night.