Yesterday we took Ben and Izzie to the doctor for their check-ups. Ben is 37 3/4 inches tall and doing great. He's in the 50th percentile for height and weight. Ben was so excited to go to the doctor - he kept asking about it all week. "When do we go to the doctor? What's the doctor going to do?" Both the children were required to have a lead check (both fine) and neither of them cried when they got poked. Izzie chewed the bandaid off her finger within seconds, and Ben cried after the fact because he didn't like the bandaid and wanted it off his finger. (Maybe because Izzie got hers off?)
Izzie is 20 pounds, 6 ounces and has dropped from 90th percentile in weight to the 25th, but that's normal since she's been crawling and climbing everywhere! She got 4 injections plus the lead test, so she was poked 5 times. Two nurses gave the shots -each nurse took a thigh and gave one shot and then they reloaded and gave the next two. After the first set Izzie started screaming. One of the nurses looked at her face and said, "Oh, she's mad!" She calmed down very quickly once the shots were over, though.
We discovered that Izzie has an umbilical hernia. Her outie is really an outie depending on how full her tummy is and her positioning. If I put my hand on her belly sometimes I can't feel it much at all and other times it's really obvious. It's nothing to be worried about and will probably close up on its own. If it doesn't go away by the time she's 4 years old, she can have a minor operation to take care of it. The doctor said it isn't a problem unless the hernia is large enough that other kids can pull it. (Ouch!) Or, it could become a problem when she is pregnant. Anyway, we have three years in which it could close by itself before we have to think about it again.
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"Oh, she's mad."??????? Didn't it make you want to ask the nurse how she would handle being held down and stuck with sharp objects?
Sam just got another set of vaccinations the other day too. He didn't cry when the needles first went in, but when the nurse pushed the plungers, he started to cry. I said, "Oh Sam, you did wonderfully," and through tears streaming down his face, he repeated, "won-der-ful-ly." About 10 seconds later, it was all better, especially when the nurse gave him a big sticker that said, "I got my shots today!"
-Julee
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