Miracle of my womb: 12 and 13 month update

Hi everyone, and my apologies for not getting a 12 month update out. Life has been a little crazy in our household and by the time I had a chance to write Sam’s 12 month update, she was already 12.5 months old, so I decided to combine the two.

Sam is now well and truly walking, and we’ve bought her her first pair of shoes. She’s coping with this quite well and already understands that putting on shoes means that she’s going outside. She has size 5 feet, a size 0 waist (for now) and size 1/2 everything else, depending on whether the neck is a set size or not. This is because Sam has a 48.5cm head circumference, which is actually off the chart in percentiles for her age group.

Sam was measured on 23/06/14. Her previous measurements were 6 week previous. My growth chart app stops showing exact percentiles once the baby reaches 12 months old, so the percentiles will be a bit vaguer from now on.
Weight: 10.65 kg (increase of 850 g). >85th percentile.
Height: 76.5 cm (increase of 2 cm). Middle of the 50th to 85th percentile.
Head Circumference: 48.5 cm (increase of 1 cm). >99th percentile (off the chart).

I asked the nurse about the sudden increase in Sam’s weight, concerned that I’m doing something wrong, but she wasn’t worried because (as she put it) Sam’s always been a “plodder” and now she’s catching up.

Sam has learned a new word in the last few days, “nononono!”, although she doesn’t know yet what it means as she’s just babbling it so far. She also looks at me and says “Mama” and looks at DH and says “Dada”, showing that she understands who we are.

Sam’s birthday party was a bit of a shambles due to the fact that she had a bad reaction to her 12 month old immunisations (mental note to self, next time, get needles AFTER the party). She had a cough, snotty nose, spotty rash, and fever, so needless to say, she wasn’t a particularly happy camper. This continued for about two weeks, and then she came down with an actual cold. Poor thing hasn’t had a non-snotty nose for a month now.

Sam has a love for swings and slides, and anything else that gives her an adrenaline rush.