He's not come out yet...but we had the latest check-up yesterday and I wanted to share the results. Everything is coming along fine, he probably weighs close to 7 lbs. now (at about 37 weeks), so we figure that if he stays in there for another month or so (John was born about a week past his due date) he will approach a birth weight equivalent to what John's was (9 lbs. 3 oz.). While we are very happy that Barb is producing big, healthy babies, I was sort of hoping that maybe this one might be a little bit smaller (8 lbs.?) so that it might have a little bit easier time coming into the world. (John took some extra help to come out.) Well, whatever happens, I'm certain it will work out fine!
While we were at the hospital, John took the chance to get his vitals measured. Here's his "stats":
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| Top: 17.0 kg; bottom: 104.9 cm |
Grandpa S. was able to quickly convert these metric totals to pounds and inches today when we told him about them on Skype (he is used to dealing with metric measurements at work), but for those who aren't as savvy, I'll save you the need to get out your calculator. It's 37.5 lbs. and 41.3 inches (about 3 ft 5 inches). No wonder John gets heavy so fast nowadays when I carry him!
GJS
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