Katie's first visit to the Pediatrician
One day, I may turn all this into a book!!!!
I guess I already wrote some about this appointment, so I am sorry for the duplicate post, but I don't feel like deleting and editing....so you get to read it again. :LOL I seriously have "mommy brain.." or something...because I didn't even remember writing that!
So, there was an appointment (amazingly), available at the WPAFB Pediatric Clinic and we were able to get our little Katie into see Dr. Slojic on March 4th. We were skeptical when making the appointment at first because he is a resident, but he is VERY thorough and was so good with Katie. She was also really awesome at her doctor's appointment and just laid on the table so calmly during the exam, whereas I think most children would cry. She ranks in the 4th percentile for height and weight and the pediatrician did not seem to concerned about that. He put in referrals for us to go the International Adoption Clinic in Cincinnati for that evaluation and for speech therapy, physical and occupational therapy evaluations. When I picked our daughter up at the orphanage, she weighed only 20lbs and at the pediatrician's office, she weighed 23.5 lbs. I was so excited that she has already gained three and a half pounds and we just got her on February 17th! She is 32 3/4" tall, so just a few more inches and she will be 3ft tall. I wonder if she will outgrow her mommy and daddy! We aren't exactly on the tall side at all.
Her heart rate was 132 and her temperature was 99.3 (which they don't even consider a fever in children). The pediatrician prescribed some Atarax for her to help her with the itching from the Scabies she is getting over. I had treated her twice for it, as indicated...but the scabies was scabbing over and I think it was itching her a great deal. We see this local pediatrician again next Friday and he will order some labs and check to see if she is truly anemic, as her Russian medical report says she is. I thought there was bruising on her back, but instead we learned something new. It is actually a form of a birth mark called Mongolian Spots. Sometimes children with Mongolian spots can have genetic disorders which we will have her tested for, according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_spot. The genetic disorders are extremely rare, so the worry wart in me says to relax and let the physicians test her and then worry if something comes back abnormal.
As for our worries about Fetal Alcohol Effects, the pediatrician said she showed some "mild effects..." She showed some "railroad tracking" on her ears and some issues with her lip philtrum. We will find out more about that at our International Pediatrician appointment on March 14th with Dr. Staat. We will find out her developmental age versus her chronological age and it will be exciting to know what we can do to help our little angel catch up. She is SO smart though, we must add! She feeds herself with a baby spoon and fork, partially dresses herself and knows what a lot of things are even if she may not have ever seen them. At the doctor's appointment she tried putting the doctor's gloves on her hands. It was the cutest ever!!!
As for appetite, our daughter pretty much eats anything that won't eat her first!!! :-) She is a cutie-pie and we have only discovered that she does not like the texture of strawberries and didn't like cantelope at all...she kind of chewed it and then spit it out. :-)
Anyway, I better get a little rest before our princess awakes from her nap. I will write more later and am actively posting photos on Facebook as we take them. If you are not my friend and want to see more photos, please go to http://www.facebook.com/aprilannchen, let me know who you are and I will add you! We feel so incredibly blessed to have such an even tempered little princess. The only time she REALLY cries and gets upset is when she has to go for her nap and we lay her down or at bedtime, but the crying time is getting much less everyday as she adjusts to napping and bedtime. For a child who has been taken away from everything she has ever known and essentially taken to the moon :-), she has done remarkably well. She is picking up English quite well also and now says Mama, Dadda, night, night; I love you; eat; please; bite please (and I am probably forgetting some stuff she says). She is SO smart!!!!
I guess I already wrote some about this appointment, so I am sorry for the duplicate post, but I don't feel like deleting and editing....so you get to read it again. :LOL I seriously have "mommy brain.." or something...because I didn't even remember writing that!
So, there was an appointment (amazingly), available at the WPAFB Pediatric Clinic and we were able to get our little Katie into see Dr. Slojic on March 4th. We were skeptical when making the appointment at first because he is a resident, but he is VERY thorough and was so good with Katie. She was also really awesome at her doctor's appointment and just laid on the table so calmly during the exam, whereas I think most children would cry. She ranks in the 4th percentile for height and weight and the pediatrician did not seem to concerned about that. He put in referrals for us to go the International Adoption Clinic in Cincinnati for that evaluation and for speech therapy, physical and occupational therapy evaluations. When I picked our daughter up at the orphanage, she weighed only 20lbs and at the pediatrician's office, she weighed 23.5 lbs. I was so excited that she has already gained three and a half pounds and we just got her on February 17th! She is 32 3/4" tall, so just a few more inches and she will be 3ft tall. I wonder if she will outgrow her mommy and daddy! We aren't exactly on the tall side at all.
Her heart rate was 132 and her temperature was 99.3 (which they don't even consider a fever in children). The pediatrician prescribed some Atarax for her to help her with the itching from the Scabies she is getting over. I had treated her twice for it, as indicated...but the scabies was scabbing over and I think it was itching her a great deal. We see this local pediatrician again next Friday and he will order some labs and check to see if she is truly anemic, as her Russian medical report says she is. I thought there was bruising on her back, but instead we learned something new. It is actually a form of a birth mark called Mongolian Spots. Sometimes children with Mongolian spots can have genetic disorders which we will have her tested for, according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_spot. The genetic disorders are extremely rare, so the worry wart in me says to relax and let the physicians test her and then worry if something comes back abnormal.
As for our worries about Fetal Alcohol Effects, the pediatrician said she showed some "mild effects..." She showed some "railroad tracking" on her ears and some issues with her lip philtrum. We will find out more about that at our International Pediatrician appointment on March 14th with Dr. Staat. We will find out her developmental age versus her chronological age and it will be exciting to know what we can do to help our little angel catch up. She is SO smart though, we must add! She feeds herself with a baby spoon and fork, partially dresses herself and knows what a lot of things are even if she may not have ever seen them. At the doctor's appointment she tried putting the doctor's gloves on her hands. It was the cutest ever!!!
As for appetite, our daughter pretty much eats anything that won't eat her first!!! :-) She is a cutie-pie and we have only discovered that she does not like the texture of strawberries and didn't like cantelope at all...she kind of chewed it and then spit it out. :-)
Anyway, I better get a little rest before our princess awakes from her nap. I will write more later and am actively posting photos on Facebook as we take them. If you are not my friend and want to see more photos, please go to http://www.facebook.com/aprilannchen, let me know who you are and I will add you! We feel so incredibly blessed to have such an even tempered little princess. The only time she REALLY cries and gets upset is when she has to go for her nap and we lay her down or at bedtime, but the crying time is getting much less everyday as she adjusts to napping and bedtime. For a child who has been taken away from everything she has ever known and essentially taken to the moon :-), she has done remarkably well. She is picking up English quite well also and now says Mama, Dadda, night, night; I love you; eat; please; bite please (and I am probably forgetting some stuff she says). She is SO smart!!!!
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