WIC

On Tuesday we went along to a WIC appointment in their downtown HQ. WIC stands for Women, Infants & Children, and is a programme run to ensure babies and their mothers are getting the necessary nutrition for healthy growth. You have to have a low family income to qualify (we currently do), and apparently Beth's pre-gestational diabetes also helped swing the decisionometer our way.

We now have five vouchers for food purchases to use every month for three months after which we pick up another batch, and we are guaranteed the first year before we have to requalify. The vouchers vary in value, and specify what groceries (mostly milk, cheese, eggs, cereals, fruit and vegetables) you can buy on each one. You hand over the voucher at the grocery checkout, letting the clerk know what food you are using the voucher for, they put the details on the till, you sign it, and they keep it. Eah voucher is one use, and if you lose it, you've lost it. Not all stores accept them, but WalMart and Fred Meyer both do, where we do most of our grocery shopping.

Edward was weighed and measured during the interview, and he's now 11lbs 6 1/2 oz, and 22 1/8" long, which put him in the 86th percentile for weight, and 77th for height, for his age.