Sophia’s Six-Month Check-Up
Sophia had her six-month check-up on Friday. She is twenty eight inches tall/long and weights fifteen pounds and fourteen and a half ounces.
Sophia has been working on sitting up for the past two weeks. She still needs her boppy pillow but she’s getting a lot more steady. When she leans forward she can self correct and sit up again, but if she falls back she’s a flailing turtle. She tolerates being on her tummy, but still doesn’t use her arms to push her torso up. As a matter a fact if I put her into the half push up position she’ll slide her arms out to her sides. She absolutely refuses to use her arms to support her weight in any way. She knows her arms exist - ok maybe she only knows her hands exist. She’s been using them to grasp and pull objects towards herself and ultimately into her mouth since she was about three months old.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:52am
She is absolutely 100% adorable!!!!!
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April 1st, 2008 at 5:54pm
Dear Erica,
Have you asked the doctor about her not using her arms? I know its been a long time but it seems to me that by now if I put my kids on their belly they would raise up on their arms to look around. Just a typical gramma I guess. Worried about everything.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:11pm
Yes, I brought it up with the doctor and he’s not concerned about it. She’s right on track and even a little advanced in some other areas that the fact she’s a little behind in another isn’t a big deal. She’ll get there. As a matter a fact she started to use her elbows to push herself forward into a sitting position (with help of a pillow behind her), so she does know her arms are there and can even be useful.