Tuesday, August 24, 2010

3 Year Check Up

We went in yesterday for our 3 year checkup with the pediatrician.  Bella weighed in at 26lbs 7oz, and was 34.5 inches long.  This puts her at the bottom of both the height and weight curves, but she is on them and still obviously growing.  And my back and arms are definitely glad she is on the low end instead of the high end of the percentiles.
Everything went well with the checkup, but there are some housekeeping visits we are going to make to other doctors.  Bella needed an eye screening to start school.  And since she can't tell people what she sees, we have to go see an ophthalmologist who will check out the structure of her eye to see if there are any problems.  Then we are going to go see a pediatric dentist at children's mercy.  She might have to be put under to give her a proper checkup and cleaning.
Lastly we are going to have some x-rays done on her spine and hips.  With her low muscle tone, she is more prone to having problems with her joints and bones not properly aligning, since there are no muscles to keep them.  And her hips have always been tight, so we just want to double check those too, while we are at it.
So it looks like we have quite a few additional appointments coming up in the near future.  Guess I better start making calls and scheduling everything.  Especially since some of the clinics at children's mercy take months to get an appointment.

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