18 Month Check Up

As soon as we were called back Cassie recongized what was going to happen and the tears flowed! Poor little girl. She kept pointing at the door to leave. Too many doctors in her past!! The nurse weighed her, took her length, listened to her heart and took her temp so the nurse was not Cassies friend at that point. As I predicted Cassie is a peanut and almost not on the charts!! She is less than the 3% in weight...however she is staying on the same percentile as she was months ago. She is eating like a horse and is happy. The charts show she has dropped percentiles in weight and height and I don't know why the doctor even looks at those percentiles because they are NOT ACCURATE!!! We were force feeding the poor child so much that she was projectile vomiting!! Grrr! She was born below the 5th percentile and she is now back at that point since she is eating how much she wants to eat. For length she was between the 5-10% (30 inches) and her head was 50-75%.

Both of her tubes are still in her hears and he was happy with how she was doing with speech. I told him we have an appointment at Childrens and he said from what he sees she doesn't seem to have any problems right now. She actually did very well when he came into the room.

Cass has only had the HIB and PCV7 vaccine. We wanted to hold off on others until she was bigger. I am thinking we are going to start the DTP in 6 weeks.

Saturday we are going to Babies R Us to buy a potty for Cassie. Going to start potty training or at least introduce her to it and let her take it at her own speed. She is smart as a whip so maybe this will be easy. (KNOCK ON WOOD!!) The doctor did say around 2 is when most are ready but he has heard of 18 month olds being potty trained. I am not pushing her, I just want her to see it and if she wants to try she can...if she doesn't that is totally fine.

Now I have to call the vet and order hartguard and Advantix for my other girl!! :o)