Oh goodness! Where was my brain?! I never posted the official stats for the one year wellness checkup! I know...you were waiting with bated breathe for these numbers. Right? Well slap my hand and call me lazy. Or busy, or sweetie, or Heather, or Suzy...you can call me anything and I'll usually respond.
Joseph did pretty good this time around. We got vaccinated: MMR, chickenpox, pneumococcal conjugate, and his second flu dose - they give it in two shots for under one year old - and a stick to check his iron. His iron is low so they want us to give him a vitamin. The liquid multivitamin supplement crap is so vile though, I am going to have to figure out a way to get him to eat either the fruity jelly-like chewables or crush up a Flinstones. We got the normal poke and prod procedure when the doc came in and he said Joseph is the best, most happy, perfect baby ever. And he wanted to use him in a study for perfect parenting! Can you believe it? Ha. Teasing, teasing.
Joseph weighed in 20 lbs 13 oz. - 20th percentile and he measured 29 3/4 inches long - 60th percentile. He registered in the 100th percentile for cutest baby ever. ;)
He just got over a little something. He had runny poops that turned white! Chalky white. It was crazy. So I googled it and of course everything said white wasn't normal and to call the Dr. It could indicate something going on with the liver. The Dr. however, said that with no temp and little irritability, just to keep an eye on him. But he did confirm that white poop could very well be the liver not producing enough bile or a gallbladder problem. We chalked ours up to a virus. Then the next day he wakes up with dots all over him! Oh lordy, I thought for sure he was the 1 person out of 20 that gets a rash from the chickenpox vaccine. It didn't bother him though. I called the Dr. again just to let them know what was going on and they said it sounds like a reaction from his MMR vaccine that can occur 7-14 days after it's administered. And, thank goodness, it cleared right up after a few days. The poops are slowly but surely getting their color back, too...so we are pretty much back to normal. Getting more "experience" under my belt, but I sure hate it when they don't feel good. Poor baby wanted to be rocked all the way to sleep for every bed time and nap time so we got to spoil him a little!
Speaking of...it's nap time now. I need to get off this computer and get some stuff done! Hugs and kisses!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Joseph Update
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4 comments:
Wow- pretty eventful! So glad his poops are getting back to normal. There's nothing like blogging about the wide range of poop colors out there, so although he was sicky I'm glad he could provide us with material for our blog reading pleasure.
Oh, and Joseph, way to grow!
hee hee, you are too cute - i love the rating in the 100th percentile for cuteness!!
hahaahha. i KNEW one of us would talk about poop eventually! how can we not... there's plenty of poopy situations being a mommy! I hope Joseph gets his poo back to normal. glad all else was fine. we had to do the vitamins for a while too(poly-visol?)... gross stuff, I agree. good luck w/ that. oh, and YES, he IS 100% cute!
Oh shux you really should have gotten a pat on the back for 100% on perfect parenting. I agree with that completely! ; ) Great job Mommy! And way to go Joseph for being such a perfect kid! Get well quick and get that poop back to normal so Mommy will feel better. xoxo
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