15 Month Checkup

The stats: 34 lb 10 oz; 33 inches tall
Dr.Anderson was finally happy that the weight started to plateau. I had not decreased nursing at all (on purpose, though it did slightly naturally - except for no nursing 30 minutes before dinner.) But I had tried to make sure he got lots of exercise.

Jonathan was unhappy being examined, he wanted mostly to be held, but he liked the eye flashlight and he held still for the ears.

Despite his cold and continued/renewed cough, his lungs are clear. His right ear is slightly inflamed, but Dr. Anderson said just to keep an eye on it. He got a DTaP shot and also blood drawn for the lead test. He only flinched for the shot, and he complained about the rubber constrictor when it took a while to find a vein. He cried a little about halfway through the blood drawing, but after it was over he got to nurse for a while and he was fine.

Everything else is a-ok and I'll put a comment when they call with the lead results.
Posted by Heather Daley on February 24, 2005, 2:05 pm | Read 5001 times
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I thought you weren't supposed to give vaccines to kids who are sick?
Posted by jondaley on February 24, 2005, 3:46 pm
He said a cold was fine, it would be a high fever or some worse sickness that they would not do it.
Posted by Joyful on February 24, 2005, 4:23 pm
That was my experience, too -- that it's okay with a cold. There might be some exceptions, such as the flu vaccine, which our doctor wouldn't give Heather when all she had was a sore throat. Maybe they don't want to give you a flu shot when you might have the flu already.
Posted by SursumCorda on February 24, 2005, 5:26 pm
Don't know if I should put this on the lead results post, but they took this test at the visit for this post, so here I am.

A letter came today saying that the results came back normal. I called the office to find out the number (because I knew someone would ask) and they said 7. So, it did go down, but it still would be nice to go down more. But I guess we're on the right track.
Posted by Joyful on March 2, 2005, 1:07 pm
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