I wish a great big happy birthday to my baby daughter. Baby E is one. I can’t believe it. Where did the time go? I can’t believe I now have two toddlers.
Baby E has been an adventure. She has not had the best health, but has always been happy. I always said that she’s the happiest miserable baby. We finally got a lot of her misery under control when we got her on the right medicine and formula combination.
Baby E has a lot of doctors and only the pediatrician and dentist are not specialists. We’ve been to the cardiologist twice and need to make another appointment now that she’s one. We’ve seen the gastroenterologist a number of times, but may be done with her. We have an appointment with the pulmonologist in November; the pediatrician has another pulmonologist that accepts Medicaid, so we may get in sooner. We went to the ophthalmologist for E’s crossed eyes and found out that her eyes are perfectly normal. She has pseudo strabismus, which makes her eyes looked crossed even though they’re not.
Other than an overnight hospital stay for testing when she was just a few weeks old, many visits to the emergency room, and several chest X-Rays, the biggest thing she has been through in her first year of life was wearing a DOCBand. This poor baby had the biggest head. Not only was her head huge but it was asymmetrical. She looked like a Monchichi with a big head and flat ears. Cranial Technologies anticipated that E would wear her DOCBand for five months. Baby girl did so well with the treatment that she was out of the helmet in about three. Now she has a beautiful shaped head.
We are so fortunate that this baby joined our family the day after she was born.