Eighteen Month Well Visit
Ok - it was *supposed* to be a well visit but as it turned out, it was a sick visit with shots. *sigh*
As you have read, Baby K came down with a whopping case of Hand, Foot and Mouth disease on Tuesday. The poor girl is miserable and, as a result, so is everyone in the house. K is feeling the pain of getting much less attention and the moms are feeling the pain of having a very sick little girl who is clingy and in tears much of the day and night. It's a stress that wears on a person, that's for sure. What I wouldn't do for 2 hours of solid sleep.
Anyway - the doctor gave her the once over today and concurred with my diagnosis (having gone through this in January with K, I was quick to figure it out this time around). And since the girl is already miserable, we talked it over and decided to give her the two vaccinations due today. This way, we won't have to go back in a week or two and go through a couple more miserable days. I felt a bit evil at giving them to her but also relieved that I didn't have to lug the kids back to the doctors office in a week or so.
But- other than the HFMD, Miss K is looking good. She weighed in at 25.4lbs, is 32.5 inches tall and her head is 18.75 inches. That puts her in the 60th percentile for weight and 75th for the others. Her weight percent has dropped but everything else is holding steady. All in all, a good report for that.
We talked about her never ending saga in the stop breathing department but since it doesn't sound like seizures and since the heart tests all came out ok it appears to be something she just needs to outgrow. She only does it after trauma (falling, sudden fright, etc) which means it doesn't sound like a seizure disorder (thank God!). We had gone an entire 4 months without an episode but that streak came to a crashing end Monday after she lost her balance and fell while crawling through the bath water to get to D. (I guess that would have scared me as well) I had *almost* forgotten that terror when she stops breathing. D had her in her arms this time - I'm not sure if it was easier or more difficult not to have physical control in the situation. It terrified D, that's for sure.
So anyway - long story short: even though she is sick right now, Miss K looks healthy and is doing well. I, however, am in complete disbelief that my baby turned 18 months old today. Unbelievable. Just a year and a half ago today we were watching our baby, attached to tubes and machines in the NICU. How far she has come! :)
-Casey
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Strong? Nah. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other.
*sigh*
Poor K!!!! I hope she's feeling a little better now. With the stopping breathing, a woman on one of my single mom yahoo groups had a similar situation not that long ago with her son when he fell and stopped breathing. They told her it was a breath holding spell. She posted this link about them -
http://www.webmd.com/hw/raising_a_family/hw31829.asp
Laura,
Yes, that's exactly what they are called however I have found when you say "Breath Holding Spell" most people (including doctors, I might add) automatically assume it's a temper thing - and should be ignored (which I'm completely and utterly against no matter the reason). K's are most definitely the Pallid variety - always always after a trauma. Never ever do they come with temper tantrums (and goodness knows we see a bunch of those in any given day).
Thanks for the link! :)
HFMD hit us too. Cheryl took Katie to the MD on Monday before we left for vacation and lo and behold! You can imagine how fun our vacation was. Luckily we went up to my Grandparents camp where there isn't anyone around so we didn't have to cancel getting out of town!
Wendy,
That's awful! I'm so sorry. We were talking about how fortunate we are that it hi when it did and not next week, while we are in Disneyland. That would have been so terrible!
Hope she is feeling better.
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