8 month check up

Charlie is exactly 8 months old today and went to the FV hospital for his 8 month check up.

His stats are as follows:

Height: 72cms

Weight: 9.6kgs

He appears to have not grown since last month, but as I wrote after the 7 month check up I don't trust their ability to measure Charlie.

Charlie is doing very well and has at least half a dozen teeth now.

While taking charlie out for his morning walks one can definitely see that Charlie has become a lot more interested in his surrounding and is generally a lot more alert. He can move around the bed much better than a few weeks ago, but his walking ability seems to be progressing quite slowly.

I am British

Charlie was delighted when I showed him his British birth certificate, that I picked up at the British Consulate yesterday morning. Not actually sure if Charlie was British before he got this piece of paper, but he definitely is now.

Next month we will be getting Charlie his British passport and probably a Vietnamese one as well. Under Vietnamese law it is theoretically illegal to have another nationality in addition to Vietnamese, but the government knows that this happens and doesn't appear to have an issue with it.

I wrote the above on the 23rd of August, but have had blog issues yet again.

7 month check up

Charlie went for his 7 month check up at the FV hospital this morning. All was fine and his vital statistics were as follows:

weight: 9.0kgs

According to this table this is just over 75th percentile:
http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/WFA_boys_0_5_percentiles.pdf

His weight increased by 0.4 kgs since last month and this also ties up with the table.

length: 72cms

According to this chart he is just a little over the 85th percentile: http://www.who.int/childgrowth/standards/LFA_boys_0_2_percentiles.pdf

One has to take in to consideration that his 7 month check up was actually after 7 months and 7 days.

I don't believe in the length figures that we have been receiving from the hospital. On 28 June they said he was 68.5 cms, then we took him in about a week later as he had a fever and they said he was 71 cms. He couldn't have grown 2.5 cms in a week.

I am in two minds at the moment whether we should change from referring to his length and start referring to his height. I actually think height is more appropriate now as when I usually see him he is either sitting or standing up.

When asked by the doctor to open his mouth Charlie apparently did so. I think this was a fluke or it was imagined.

Charlie is progressing excellently!

Recent pics

Charlie can now sit unsupported for long periods of time, but sometimes he still falls face first in to the mattress.

Last week I had to hold on to Charlie's hands so that he could stand up, but now Charlie can hold on to furniture and stand up by himself.