Third Time's A Charm

After three visits to the doctor in less than three weeks, Lily is finally healthy. This time she had a double ear and sinus infections. And all this time this crazy Mama thought she had allergies! But it was nothing a five day antibiotic couldn't knock out. She is finally back to "normal" and sleeping her 11 hours during the night. We are still trying to find our new "regular" schedule since time change. (Why do I keep putting things in quotes?) But for the most part we have settled back in. She finally gained a little weight. Although she grew another inch from 4 months to 6 months, now 25 inches, she actually lost weight and was down to 14 pounds 1 ounce. Doc wasn't concerned, and I assume because of her being sick she wasn't eating real well. She has rebounded well, both eating and nursing more than previously and now closer to 15 pounds. Although Daddy tried to give her cold spinach yesterday and she wasn't having any of it; we'll mix it with sweet potatoes tonight.

Through this ordeal we also had to switch doctors. When I was pregnant, they asked if I would mind being assigned to one of the Family Medicine residents. I didn't mind; he was always under supervision and I was happy to help out. He was supposed to be the one to deliver Lily, but with how everything went down, their wasn't even time to call him. We really liked Dr. Flores and he continued to see Lily after she was born. But when we had to see a doctor on February 27, outside of our routine visit, we had issues. They scheduled her an appointment in Pediatrics but then told us we couldn't go to Peds because we were part of Family Medicine so they scheduled us a new appointment. But when we showed up in Fam Med for our appointment they refused to see her because she was under two years. Back down to the reception desk. Two hours later, we were finally seen in Fam Med. A nightmare for an infant. Then when we had to go back in on March 16 it took me two hours to get an appointment because no one knew where to schedule her and I had to keep waiting to talk to nurse advice. I called Kevin in sobbing tears not know how to make my baby feel better because no one would see her. I blame the hysterics on not sleeping for two weeks while she fought through this cold. I ended up switching her to a regular pediatrician. We really liked her and are happy with the department, nurse, and whole change. I was able to tell our doctor that we had to break up and it wasn't his fault. He felt bad, then I felt bad. It was all quite embarrassing. But Lily is well and we are all rested!