Pediatrician Visit

This second week home has felt like one very long dr visit with trying to catch up on all my appointments that I put off during the adoption and then getting Laikyns complete in time for our first post placement visit with our social worker. Dr. Martin was very surprised by her size and said she looked very healthy and solid. She was 32 pounds and 35 inches which was again more than she was two weeks ago in China at her medical exam. Someones scales are off, but after carrying her around, I would bet that today's was correct. She is 60th percentile in height and 88th in weight. Thankfully, her heart sounded good and she is on target for all of her motor skills. Language will of course lag behind, but she should eventually catch up. We were able to get her seizure meds dosed the same as in China and we discussed her seeing a pediatric neurologist from Louisville at a later date. Dr Martin said that the usual protocol is to stay on meds until remaining seizure free until age three and then see if we can reduce it down. She is required to redo all of the bloodwork and vaccines that she had in China so we started on that today. She cried as soon as she saw the needle tray. Poor thing has been through this too many times. A sucker made it all better though! Next week, we start the bloodwork and TB test.