Doctor's appointment

Will did not like this trip to the doctor much more then he liked the one in China. He was okay in the waiting room, but when we started to take off his clothes he started to cry and scream. He will be 30 months old on Monday.

He is 36 inches long, (a yard stick as the Dr. said), 28.88 pounds in just his diaper. He is not only on the American chart for height and weight but at 50% for both height and weight. The Dr. was impressed with his height and weight for living in an orphanage for the first two plus years of life. The Dr. was very low key and quiet with him, he started with reviewing the information we had for him and our answers to the developmental questions they ask at each well child visit. He thought the not eating many vegetables or crunchy fruits might be cleft related and that the feeding specialist at the crano-facial team could help with that. He said it would take a little while for him to pick up the language, and that the Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) on the cleft team would be a good resource for what was learning a new language and what was cleft related. After the exam he said he was in good health, he does have lots of cavities.

We have chosen to just redo all the immunizations on the catch-up schedule the CDC recommends, (see this web site http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/child-schedule.htm). They also drew blood to redo all of his blood work. He will not get the Hep A and B vaccines unless he does not have the antibodies in his blood stream. So hopefully that will be two less vaccines he needs.

We have learned that what he does not like about the Dr. visits is taking all of his clothes off, so hopefully his cleft appointment will go better May 20th.