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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

She has what?!

Leah had her 9 month check yesterday. I thought for sure we would be in and out since she is doing great, no issues, no problems... until I stripped her down and the nurse said, "What is that on her leg?" It was two tiny red bumps. I thought, "And people think I'M paranoid and over-protective?" Well, when Dr. Adenuga checked them out, he asked if she had a fever in the last week. NOPE. Loss of appetite? NADA. He did a thorough check and came up with Hand/Foot/Mouth disease. (April, did Nora have that?) What an awful name!! Doesn't that sound serious and gross? It really is just a virus that runs its way through and goes away in 5 or 6 days. Why do they have to call it a disease?! Our sweet, innocent baby with a nasty sounding disease?
The rest of the appointment was fine. Her (Rorick) head and length are at the 75%ile. Her weight is between the 10th and 25th%ile. They called her a tall and slender baby. When I looked back at Lib's baby book, Leah is almost exactly the same size (weight and height) as Lib when she turned 1. Libby's head was always over the 100th%ile though. It is funny that two kids can be so different. Sorry we have been bad about pics. We will get some pumpkin pics on there like Megan and Nora's blogs! Thanks for the fun idea!

2 Comments:

  • At 2:14 PM , Blogger April said...

    Believe it or not, that wasn't one of the many things that Nora has had. A few of my other friends' kids have had it and it didn't seem like it was a very big deal.

     
  • At 9:14 PM , Blogger Mel said...

    That was my guy that had it. Brendan had it back in July and he had sores all over his gums, ran a 103 degree temp, and didn't eat or drink anything for 2 days. Gary had it when he was 11 months old. I think it's a rite of passage or something.

     

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