First Doctor's Visit

Everything went well! It's very reassuring to hear everyone say what a good little baby she is, and how healthy she is (good skin tone, nice moisture, etc). She weighed 7lbs 3oz today...so she's gaining weight nicely. (She was 7lbs 6oz at delivery, and 7lbs 1oz the day we went home). The Dr was happy w/ her progress and said she should have no problem returning to her birth weight by next week. He answered so many of my questions and I felt very good about the whole situation - he acted like he had all the time in the world to answer my questions, and that made me really happy.

I thought she'd been having gas a lot lately...and told him i'd been trying to watch what i eat to not pass the gassiness on to her and asked if there was anything else I could do. He told me from the symptoms i was describing it sounded like she had acid indigestion and gave us a Rx for it...so i'm interested to see if this helps! I really feel like it will...and if it does, i'm so glad to figure out what is finally causing her pain!!

I asked about the CF testing, and he's going to do some more research on it...but said he didn't think it was very likely she'd have it (and it felt good to hear him say that), and that the "wheezing" i felt like i was hearing when she was feeding was just from having an immature system (that an adult would clear their throat, but she doesn’t know how to do that yet...) so it was nothing to be concerned about, and that her lungs sounded great. so...phew!

After our appointment today, Luke and I ran into the Minute Clinic at CVS (so nice b/c you don't have to have an appointment!)...and we got flu shots and T-Dap shots, which Dr. Granger also recommended since we are getting into flu season and Makena can't get a flu shot until she's 6 months old. And, he said it was good to go ahead and renew our Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis (whooping cough) immunizations as well b/c those are extremely contagious (or whooping cough is...) to babies. (It was kind of scary being there b/c he told us to avoid large public places until she's 8wks old...so we hurried and got our shots and Luke took Makena back to the car while i finished filling out paper work).

Anyway, everything went great! Here are a couple pictures of her on her first outing. It was almost nap time, so it was hard to get a semi-happy picture :) ...and speaking of nap time...that's what I'm going to go do myself!