Very First Pediatrician Appt

May 24 (Saturday)

Casey is 4 days old.
Her temperment is really relaxed and sleepy, as we fed her before we came :) Dr Addy at Treehouse pediactrics is our peditrician. She is great, super-friendly and very very smart. They ask alot of questions. Breastfeeding or formula, etc etc. We get the "firetruck room" Joe has pics of course. She is examined and Dr Addy says she may have a birthmark on her right pinky finger on the tip. I noticed it before, and mentioned it to Joe, but it's red so I thought it may be a little blood blister. She says we will watch it and see what happens. Everything looks good except her poopy diapers, she didnt poopy for almost 48 hours when we brought her home. But honestly it was just the erratic feedings, with nurses telling you no formula at all. Plus my milk production was maybe just starting to come in that day. So little girl was starving :( Dr Addy said right now she needs the calories and needs to eat every 3 hours. Wake her up even. If you dont have enough milk give her formula. That was a relief to me, I was tired of feeling guilty as she cried.....but she said the poopy diapers will come, and they did.... on Saturday at my Bday party actually, we were all talking about the measures we would need to take, i.e rectal thermometer etc etc and about 2 hours later she went on her own. We theorize that she heard these methods and wanted to hop to it. :)

We have to strip her down to nothing for the weight check. She weighs 7.3 pounds now. Totally normal weight loss. Actually some of the nurses commented on her only losing 4% and that anything beyond 10% was worrisome. So that is good. It will take about till she is two weeks old for her to get back to her hospital weight of 7lbs 11. To be safe let's do a weight check on Tuesday May 27. We did and she was up to 7.55 which was above avg of 1/2 oz gained per day. Her well baby exam is Tuesday June 3. Everything looking good so far. Oh btw...forgot to mention this earlier. She had a slight murmur in the hospital but was undetectable like they thought it would be by the time Dr Addy examined her. Totally healthy for now!!

I haven't screwed up anything too badly! :)