Naomi's 4 Month Checkup

It's hard to believe, but it was time for Naomi's 4 month checkup...

Along with the rest of the household, she was having a hard time breathing the past few days due to a cold. I didn't know such a little nose could retain so much snot! It's funny how different she is from her brother. Jonah thought it was the end of his world whenever we used the bulb syringe for his nose... but not her, she thinks it's a game and tries to play with it!

She is a thriving little girl. Her weight and height are in the high 60th percentiles (she's weighing nearly 14 pounds these days!) and her head circumference is in the 50th percentile.

I asked the pediatrician to check her cold symptoms since we were already there. She'd had this cold for a couple of days prior to her appointment and I just wanted to make sure that was all it was. She had a little bit of earwax blocking her tubes, so the doctor had to scrape her ears a bit... something Naomi was not liking one bit from the sounds of her cry. And this was a cry I had never heard before. I forgot how heartbreaking doctors' appointments can be for parents. I was asked to hold her down so she didn't move and get accidentally poked in the eardrum. And it reminded me of Jonah's circumcision (especially since we happened to be in the same room he had that procedure done). There's nothing like having to hold down your child and having them look at you as if you're the one causing their discomfort. Once the doctor was able to get the ear wax out, she confirmed that Naomi did indeed have an ear infection. And regardless of her sickness, she was still going to have her get her immunizations. Ouch. Poor little baby... after being held down and poked in the ears, she was going to get 3 shots in her legs... shots which make her legs sore and can cause fever. She was not a happy camper. I told her after her shots, we were outta here!

We started the antibiotics right away. And from what I can tell, she's feeling much better. She's now sleeping from 10:00 at night to about 8 or 9:00 in the morning. Woo-hoo!