4 Month Visit

Morgan went back to the Dr. on September 24, 2010 to get her 4 month old vaccinations. She weighed 11lbs 10ozs and was 24in long. She is growing like a weed. The Dr. we saw today was not Morgan’s normally Dr., she was out on leave but we still had a pretty good visit. The Dr said he did not think Morgan was teething and that it is very rare for any baby to come back on their 6 month visit with any teeth. Ashley and I looked at each other and just smiled, I knew he was thinking yeah right she will be one of the rare ones.

Our baby is on the fast track to growing up. She started crawling at 3 ½ months old. When the Dr was through looking Morgan over he said she was healthy and doing great then left the room, while we were waiting for the nurse to come give Morgan her vaccinations Ashley told me watch when we come back at 6 months she will have 1 to 2 teeth, and I just laughed and agreed. When shot time came I wanted to cry right along with Morgan, She still did great with her shots but she did not like them she screamed for a few minutes and I felt so sorry for her. So we went home and relaxed the rest of the day, poor baby her legs were sore. And for the first time she ran a fever with the vaccinations. And was not such a happy baby for about 3 days. I was hoping that with the next round of vaccinations she does not react this way.

Last ENT Visit

Morgan went to the ENT on September 20, 2010 almost 4 months old and failed all the testing again. The Dr. was puzzled as to how she reacts to noise and voices and did not understand why she was failing the test and getting a refer each time in both ears. So this is our last visit to the ENT at St. Vincent’s Hospital we have now been referred to Children’s, we have an appointment with Children’s the first week in October. They have been great at St .Vincent’s and loved Morgan to death, they always talked about how cute she is and she is such a great baby.

So I guess now we begin a new journey in a new place. We are hoping they will be able to tell us what’s going on and shed some light as to why she is not passing. We were told they would do a brain stem test and see how her hearing is on different levels. If there is some type of loss they said we would be in the Children’s system and would be in the best place to get care for the issue with her hearing.  It was a good feeling to leave that day knowing in just a few weeks with all hope the brain stem test would finally give us the answers we had been looking for and we could begin the process of correcting any issues that were in need to be corrected, but honestly we did not feel there was any major issue. If Morgan had not been required to take the hearing screen as mandatory by state law we would have never even thought once about her having any type of hearing issue. To us our daughter responds to everything we feel she should in every way she should. I guess we will see what the test have to say in a few weeks.