Chloe-Belle had her two week check up today. She did great and we are thankful for a few things.
First off, here are her stats:
Chloe weighs 8 pounds 4 ounces (50%-tile)
Chloe is 20 3/4 inches tall (70%-tile)
and
Chloe's head circumference is 14 1/4 inches (58%-tile)
This is not what we are used to having a "giant" the first time around. Brooks has never been anything but in the 99th or 100th percentile his entire life. It is so different having a peanut! We have noticed that lots of her features seem to come from Greg's side. This is a great thing, since his genes seem to be a little bit more petite than the genes on my side of the family.
We are thankful that Chloe-Belle got a great report! She is very healthy, gaining weight at a great rate (1 pound in 2 weeks) and has strong joints. Chloe-Belle passed her exam with flying colors and the doctor had little to say about her, which is a great thing.
We are also thankful that the doctor seemed very calm about Chloe-Belle's ultrasound of her kidneys next Tuesday. He (our regular doctor is a she, but she was not in today) told us that there is a very "weak" correlation between kidney development and ear flaps and he seemed almost surprised that our regular doctor wanted to do an ultrasound. He was happy to refer us to get one done, but his demeanor made both Greg and me feel at peace about the whole thing. The doctor mentioned that if something were wrong with her kidneys, it would most likely have been caught on the ultrasound that we had done when I was 20 weeks pregnant. Praise the Lord!
We are also thankful to have an appointment with a well known ENT doctor a week from Monday. It turns out he retires the following week, but we were still able to be seen by him before he retires. Although he may not be the one removing the skin on Chloe-Belle's ear, we will both feel at peace knowing that whatever is done to her ear will be at the recommendation of him. The timing could not have been better.
We are so thankful that the appointment went well and so thankful we will have more answers about Chloe-Belle's health in about a week. She sure is precious and we can't remember life without her. It seems so much longer than two weeks and we are enjoying ever second we have with both of our beautiful children.
