Twelve Month Appointment

Slash thirteen months.  I blame busy season.  On a lot of things.

Lily weighed 18 pounds 7 ounces and was 31 inches long.  This puts her in the 5th percentile for weight and 90th for height.  This also puts us back to the doctor in a month for a weight check.  I swear I feed my kid.  She's on the toddler menu at daycare AND downs four 8oz bottles of whole milk a day.  Eating is not the problem. 

She's recovering well from her stint with Scarlett Fever - likely part of the cause for the low weight.  I'm convinced she's just going to be tall and skinny.  The poor girl will be in a rear facing car seat for the rest of her life at this rate.  One thing the doctor did mention was that she has fluid in her ears again that he would have expected to clear up with her antibiotic.  They will check them again at her weight check but if she gets one more ear infection here soon we'll be on our way to the Ears, Nose, and Throat specialist to have a consultation for tubes.  Her doctor said 4 infections in 6 months or 6 infections in a year is cause for alarm.  She's had three since October so we're pushing it.  From what the doctor told me (as well as Google and several of both our co-workers), is that it can be life changing.  While it sounds extreme, it is a fairly common procedure.  The tubes basically reroute the fluid that causes both the ear infection and chest congestion.  Stay tuned on that issue...

Yesterday while we were walking into the doctor's office, a man was walking in with an Irish bulldog puppy.  Our office is on the second floor of the building which has an open glass stairwell to the second floor.  There is an urgent care, lab, and OB/GYN office on the main floor.  The man was walking quickly - as if to be sneaking the dog through the lobby - into the OB office.  Lily, who rarely decides to actually talk, started shouting "DOG! DOG! DOG!" and pointing.  Even as I carried her up the stairs, she could still see the puppy and would not stop yelling and pointing.  I of course was embarrassed we'd blown the guy's cover but he and all of the patients in the waiting room got a good laugh.