How old is he?

This is most common question we get and the one that is hardest to answer.

First, I understand that when looking at Piper, you can't tell she's a girl. I don't have bows for her to wear (because her head is too big for all the headbands I have), her hair is thinning more and more each day (probably due to said head-sze problem), and we don't wear a lot of pink around here. And, when shes wrapped in a blanket that is a hand-me-down from her cousin Marco (a boy, I'll just make clear), it's no surpirse people assume shes' a male.

Like when she looks like this:

In her sleeping sack, which is blue, but makes her happy just the same.

So she looks like a boy. No big deal. I usually just go with it.

What surprises me is when people (namely doctors and nurses) say "How is Piper doing today? Do you have any concerns for him?"

HIM?

Is "Piper" a gender-nuetral name? I don't think I have ever met a male named Piper (Peter doesn't count). So odd.


Second, I never know how to answer the question about her age without dumping Our Life Story into my answer. If I give her real age (5 months!), it's usually followed by, "Really?! She's so tiny!" "When my kids were that age . . ." I usually give her adjusted age, which only becomes awkward when they have follow up questions like when she was born . . . uh, 5 months ago . . . It's awkward.

2 months old, waiting to leave the NICU.

2 months, adjusted.