We had our 3 year old check up today, which went very well. We love our pediatrician - who obviously LOVES kids. (As an aside, when we were getting our medical forms filled out for preschool he added comments like "adorable" onto the form where there is space for the doctor to write. Who wouldn't love that?)
The girls got one vaccination. Apparently they changed one of the vaccines from covering the top 7 pneumonia things to the top 13. So even though the girls were "through" with this series, they got the new model (version 2.0 so to speak.) They had been anticipating their shots and seemed like they were totally on board (no crying at all for the flu shot last month) but today as it turned out, they were NOT fans at all. Which then makes it a hard sell to go give blood for the cholesterol screening. That actually went well as it was just a finger prick. Unfortunately I just got a call that both of them were a little higher than they want to see, so we have to go back for a full lipid fasting panel in 6 months. How embarrassing...I am sure that they think all we feed them are chicken nuggets and fries...wait, we did have a snack from chick-fil-a just prior to our test. Hmmm.
The Dr. thought that it sounded like Audrey had a little murmur in her heart and since I have mitral valve prolapse, he wants her to go see a cardiologist. So we will schedule an appointment for that, though it does not sound serious at all.
Here are their stats:
Brooke: 38.5 inches tall - between 75th and 90th percentile
Audrey: 37 inches tall - right at 50th percentile
Brooke: 35 lbs 1 oz - right at 90th percentile
Audrey: 31 lbs 4 oz - right at 50th percentile
They are basically staying on the same growth chart that they have been on (though the height was actually measured standing up rather than laying down) and are very proportional with height and weight. They also got their blood pressure taken for the first time.
2 comments:
Good news! Adorable - yes.
Ah, the shots! Yes, I had Keira and Ian's joint well checkups earlier this month and Keira was a bigger baby about getting shots than Ian was. He cried for, oh, about a minute and then I had to go back to consoling her as she had gone first.
Keira didn't have a cholesterol screening, that's odd. Weird how different peds do different things at visits. She did get her blood pressure checked instead of her head circumference measured.
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