7 Year Check Up

Collin had his 7 year check up.  Here are his stats:

• 3' 11" (26% of his age group)
• 50 lbs (40% of his age group)
• BMI 15.91 (60% of his age group) - No kidding.  The kid is dense and much heavier than you would expect him to be.
• Blood Pressure - 90/54 - really good

The doctor said Collin looks really good.  She asked questions and Collin answered most of them even though she was asking us.  We were happy for him to take an interest in the appointment.  She does want him to drink more milk or have more dairy than he currently does.  He prefers to drink water and sometimes juice over milk.  So, if he does not increase his dairy, and cheese does not count because he would be just fine if it did, she wants him to take a multi-vitamin that includes at least 400 mg of Vitamin D.

He does still wear a pull up at night because he still sleeps so hard that he would not wake up if he has to pee and would sleep in the wet sheets.  The wetness would not bother him.  She said that boys can take longer and it's not a matter of changing his sleep pattern.  He will eventually learn to get up and pee during the night but he could be 12 years or older and, at this point, be embarrassed to spend the night at a friend's house.  She gave us several suggestions of what we can do to help him at night that we will start working on.  Mainly, we have to wake him up, turn the lights on, have him walk on his own to the bathroom to pee and then have him go back to bed.  Eventually, and it will take some time (12 weeks or more - yikes!), his brain will wake him up at night during the same time at night.  She also suggested a bed-wetting alarm to wake him up when the sheets get wet.  I don't think this will work for him because of how soundly he sleeps. 

Getting his blood pressure taken.  He knew what this did because he saw this used many times with Grandma H.