Dr updates

We have been to see a new paeditrician in Delhi just to check in and see how Sofi is progressing.  He was recommended to us by the American Embassy nurse. We came up with some interesting new information about Sofi's birth weight. He has said that since she was 3 kg at 6 & 1/2 months, he estimates she would have been approximately 1.7 kg only at birth! Pretty small. He has tracked her height and weight growth in the past year and said I had done an amazing job of taking her from being soo under on all points, to putting her into the 50th percentile for height and weight. She is now at age exactly 21 months a whopping 12.1 kgs. I am happy she is healthy. He is a little concerned about her head diameter as it is a little small still, but we can demonstrate growth of 2 cms in the last 8 months, so it is not totally an issue. We will have to monitor it and ensure that she is growing. Initially, June 2010 the Dr in Jalanadhar had assessed her as having symmetrical growth delay. Now with her head lagging 10% behing her height and weight, it is slighty assymetric. Also, she is having some slight fungus and wax buildup in her ears that may be the reason she has been cranky and moody this past week - or it might just be that she seems to be teething with her molars. SO it's ear drops and we will clean out those ears. And also she seems to have hay fever or allergies as her nose is runny, so we have to use nasal drops and sprays and suction out the nasal passage every day for the next couple months, to prevent any backflow and chest congestion. She had some shots too, for chicken pox and the final vaccination she needed and she is still all up to date on her shots. We have taken some bloodwork also just to see how her hemaglobin looks, as the Dr was a little concerned, but said it's pretty common for Indian children to have really low levels. We had been giving Sofi SFe iron supplements twice a day for 6 months last year, so I am hopeful her levels will not be worrying anymore. But we will check on everything next week when we go back to see the Dr. Still have to collect and deliver a stool sample! Sofi is now 82.5 cms tall. 50th percentile. So all in all, for a child who was clearly suffering from "failure to thrive" according to the Dr, he said I had done an amazing job of getting her to thrive so well so quickly. I know it is Sofi who thrives from her own inner strength. She is a fighter and that's how she found me.

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Jackie