On September 12th, we visited Dr. Sloan at Mali and Mali Pediatrics for Devin's 2 month visit. Other than at the hospital when he was born, this was the first time that Devin would be getting any shots, and needless to say, I was SUPER worried about him being in pain and not being able to do anything to help him. I knew it would be tough, so I'm glad that Vikas was able to be there with me just in case I had to leave the room when they gave him his shots. When we got there, we went through our typical routine. They took his stats, Dr. Sloan examined him, and then we went through some questions that we had. Well, I'm happy to report that Devin grew another half of an inch (22.5 inches now) and gained almost 2 pounds (up to 10lbs, 6oz. from 8 lbs, 11 oz.)!
We did get a little not so good news too. Devin has torticollis, a condition in which the muscles on the left side of his neck are tighter than the right side, which cause him to tilt his head to the left. Because he tilts his head that way, he's developed a flat spot on the back of his head. We're not positive what caused the torticollis, but it's likely that it was, in part, his position in my uterus. Plus his head is a little bit big in comparison to his body, which means he has to work twice as hard to hold it up :-( Poor little guy. Dr. Sloan wrote us a prescription for physical therapy and gave us the number for Dr. Rozelle, a plastic surgeon at Children's Hospital downtown who specializes in helmets to correct flat spots on infants' heads. A few of my girlfriends have had children who needed helmets, and they saw Dr. Rozelle as well. While she doesn't necessarily sound like the warm and fuzzy type, she's fantastic at what she does and I'm glad Devin will get a chance to see her and get her opinion on his head.
So, by the time that we discussed the torticollis and our questions about his fussiness, I had forgotten (just for a second) about the vaccines. Well, then the nurse came in with the vaccines, and my anxiety about not being able to soothe him came back. But, he did SO great and barely cried. What a champ! So, while I shed a few tears, I did better than I thought I would too. The few days after his shots, however, were really ROUGH! Talk about unhappy. Let's just hope that part of that was his general fussiness (which we were told should be gone by 3 months or so) and that he's not that miserable for days after he gets shots since he's scheduled to have them at just about every doctors' visit for the foreseeable future :-(
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