2 week appointment

July 3rd:

We took McKade for his 2 week appointment on this day. I can't believe it's all ready been two weeks, they have flown by.

His stats: 7 lb 1 oz, 20.5 inches long.

Since he wasn't quite back to his birth weight the doctor is having us come back for the next several weeks to just to weight checks. Everything else checked out good. The doctor didn't hear the murmur that he had heard in the hospital which was good so no further follow up is needed on this unless it comes back later. They had done a chest xray, EKG and oxygen challenge test with a blood gas after in the hospital to follow up on the murmur and the doctor had Primary children's review all these things before he would let us go home. The doctor is going to have us have another EKG done at his 2 month appointment to just make sure all is still good. I think that since I'm a nurse he is being extra cautious because he says that if something is going to go wrong it will happen to a nurse's child. I'm glad that he is cautious because I would rather this than too lax.

All in all he is growing and doing great. He is much more alert now with longer periods during the day that he just hangs out taking the world in. How I would love to know what goes on in babies heads. He has been sleeping from about 10:30-11:00 to 5:30 am which has been nice to have a long stretch of sleep at night, hope he keeps this up.