We had a telephone consultation this afternoon with Dr. Julian Davies from UW's Center for Adoption Medicine. The practice specializes in health concerns of international adoptions.
He started our conversation with the remark that he was inordinately gushing: "This is the best health report I've seen for a long time," he reported. "She's in the 90th percentile in height and weight, and 75% in head circumference (we guess that's important?) and all her test results are normal."
Her growth is strong. He says she's a big kid, experienced stellar growth on arrival at the children's institute, and is maintaining that growth. About the only item of note is she might be a little anemic, but we can correct with diet once she gets to the US.
Dr. Davies, who we both like very much, also mentioned that while many of these growth reports are boilerplate, the section that talks about Xia Shuang as a "Happy Buddha" is very unusual and is a great indicator of her robust health and happy temperament.
Here are the numbers.
At 6 weeks: 22" long, 13.2 lbs
At 4 1/2 months: 25" long, 16.5 lbs
So she may end up taller than Andy and me. OK, that's not a huge bar to jump over, but still great news. Another step closer to her arrival here, hooray!
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Nancy.....I am so excited for you. We came home from China in April 2005. Sophia is from Pingjiang as well. She was very healthy and tall! I think the children there are very well cared for. Please feel free to check our blog out. www.beckeringtribe.blogspot.com
Hey Congratulations on your daughter! She is beautiful and I'm so glad to see she is healthy and happy too.
We also adopted our daughter from Pingjiang County (Hunan Province)in 2005. We travelled with Steffie B (your above commenter).
Just to let you know though, our medical report of Lily said she weighed 21 pounds at 6 months and when we went to get her she only weighed 18 pounds (at 10 months). So, you never REALLY know.
Anyway, we also have a blog if you care to check it out: lifewithlilylin.blogspot.com
Again, congratulations!!
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