Noah is on his own growth chart! I mean, he's not even ON the chart, which is sort of neat. They plot points and just look to see that he is growing in a sort of curve pattern with no big dips or leaps.

Lillian's doctors just care that there's a curve. She flattened out at one point (but it was AFTER we'd all had the rotovirus and a full month of bad colds), which worried them, but soon she was trending slowly upward once more.

It's not like, "OH! 100th percentile! I have a better baby!" which is what I sometimes hear on the playground.

Ha! Seriously? Because that sounds like something Stephen Colbert would say.

What I mean is that it's not like a given percentile is a grade. It's not like, "OH! 100th percentile! I have a better baby!" which is what I sometimes hear on the playground.

I know at least two mothers who got really concerned because their toddler daughters were at the 100th percentile for weight. These little girls were both also at the 100th percentile height -- one was a skinny kid, the other was kind of roundish the way that toddlers sometimes are -- but "100th percentile for weight" totally set off some, "OMG! I have a fat kid!" bells for them.

My doctor suggested I weigh 115. I am 5'4 and am aiming for a size 8, which puts me around 140. That's what I weighed beofre my surgery and I thought I looked good and felt fabulous. I don't need or want to weigh 115.

That's not to say weight loss can't have a real effect on health with some people. DH has a bad back and weighing less really helps with back pain. That being said, all he needs is to get to a weight where he feels good, not where he fits on a chart.

She flattened out at one point (but it was AFTER we'd all had the rotovirus and a full month of bad colds), which worried them, but soon she was trending slowly upward once more.

Yeah, Dylan lost a few percentile points in March because he was basically sick the entire month. Fortunately we saw Dr Sensible Who We Like who said "Just make sure he stays hydrated" and not Dr By The Book Obnoxious who has a tendency to scold.

My Doctor's suggested weight for me is 105. I am 5'2" and that is currently 110 pounds less than I weight now. At my slenderest adult weight I wore a size 4 petite and weight 140 - 145 pounds. I know I am fat (which I frankly don't mind), but I also think I am just heavy, because how could I be two sizes smaller than scrappy at the same weight when I am two inches shorter! I weighed 105 in my ninth grade year after spending the summer in an extreme depression and only eating popsicles. For the rest of my high school life, I only ate one small meal a day in order to maintain that weight. I was a size 0 and it was not at all worth it.

Huh. David Sedaris is doing a book reading in the Evanston Borders tonight. I'd go, but I figure it'll be insanely packed. Plus I saw him live once before....

eta: for Chicagoistas, he's also doing a reading "Thursday at Barbara's on Halsted."

If anyone knows of anything developmental that's NOT generally considered to be the mother's fault, please let me know so I can blame DH for it. Thanks!

Um. Male Pattern Baldness is all I'm coming up with. Though isn't that through the mother's father? feh.

tangent, but I'd like to add it to the stabination pile, just for eyerolliness. An associate just changed a profile to include the intro "I'm a technological MacGuyver"

he is pretty darn good at putting stuff together, but this kind of kills his claim by his claiming it.

And of course I had to bring it right over here to display. I'm such a good person.

I once had myself at a size 12 (this was more than 20 years ago; I'm 5'9" and have fairly large bones). I kept myself at that weight by exercising fairly strenuously and on less than 1,000 calories a day (usually in the 800-900 range). um ... NO, not any more.

Um. Male Pattern Baldness is all I'm coming up with. Though isn't that through the mother's father? feh.

Actually breast size is supposedly passed down mostly via your dad's mom than your own. So there's that.