I was waiting until I received the official write-up from the doctor before I started blogging and thinking I was knowing what I was talking about....
Samma does in fact have am innocent heart murmur, but she is otherwise a textbook healthy one year old and we have nothing to worry about. Everything else sounds fine, and the murmur itself sounds exactly as an innocent vibratory murmur should. Nothing needs to be changed in her diet, routine, or activity. The only thing we need to do is go for a re-evaluation when she's 3 years old.
*phew*
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
New Shoes.... again!
So I had mentioned that we shelled out $50 the week before Samantha's birthday party for her first pair of sneakers, and we loved them, and they were her first pair so we tried not to mind. Well, three weeks later we're trying to put said sneakers on her feet, and next thing I know, I'm holding the tongue of the right shoe in my hand! I don't know if it was defective, or if my daughter has super-human strength, but I do know that for a pair of $50 sneakers, a tongue should not just be detaching, especially on kids shoes.
Luckily I still had the original box and receipt, all in the same bag, so last Sunday we went back up to StrideRite in an attempt to make a return. Being in retail, I'm always on the offensive when it comes to returning or exchanging merchandise, especially defective merchandise, so I was planning on raising hell should it happen that they refused my claims. Well, I will say I was pleasantly surprised.
Not only were they shocked and extremely apologetic for the broken shoes (as if it was their fault) they first offered an exchange for the same pair of shoes, which would have been fine. Unfortunately they didn't have any in stock, which I kind of expecting because I noticed the pair Sam got was no longer on the shelf or the StrideRite website, so I assumed it had been discontinued... so instead the clerk told me that we could exchange for a new, different pair of shoes, or they would give us a complete refund!
Well, Samma needed shoes, and even though she was sleeping in the car with Chris while I was wheelin' & dealin' we couldn't pass this up. So with a groggy Samma, we began trying on shoes, and this time we were a little more cautious about the price tag. We finally decided on this cute little pair:
The upside? They were only $32, so we got about $16 refunded! Yay for new, cheaper shoes, and money to boot! Plus they're just so damn cute!
So long story short? StrideRite rocks. They stand by their product, and they have a no-hassle return policy. Major props from this mom!
The (belated) One-Year Check-Up, and then some...
The following Monday after her actual birthday was her 1-year pediatric appointment, and I would say everything is looking good, more or less. She weighed in at 21lbs, 28.5 inches long, and had a head circumference of 17.25" -- the pediatrician showed me her growth chart and she's healthily in the 50% percentile across the board! At the time of her appointment, she was at the tail-end of a tummy bug, and we were worried that it was the formula - to - milk conversion we were in the middle of, but the doctor assured us that so long as yogurt and cheese hadn't been bothering her to date, we shouldn't need to worry about lactose intolerance. In fact, she added that there were a lot of virus-like stomach bugs coming into their office recently so we were to just let it run its course.
The one thing that did come to light at the appointment was the doctor believed she had heard a heart murmur while checking Sam's chest. She didn't seem too concerned, and even assured me that it wasn't something that I needed to lose sleep over, but because she was a year old and we had never heard it before, she wanted confirmation from the pediatric cardiologist. Of course, the fact that we had never heard it before led her to believe it's an innocent murmur, and could have been heard for a number of reasons, but she still wanted Sam checked at Children's and would get the referral paperwork submitted for me. And that's where we'll be going this afternoon -- all the way out to Waltham in rush hour traffic for our 2:30pm appointment with the cardiology department with Children's Hospital. Again, I'm not trying to freak out -- heart murmurs happen all the time, even my sister has one! And the fact that it was never heard before, hasn't been heard since in the 2 times we've brought Sam back to the pedi (more on that later), and it clearly doesn't seem like it's affecting her way of life -- so it's really just going to have the confirmation of yes, she has an innocent murmur, or no, there's nothing there and no further need to worry.
So despite all of this, we've been fighting a nasty little bug that's made its way from Samma, to me, to my sister, to my mom, and finally to Chris... and the poor thing still has something lingering. After a week of Sam having a running nose, congestion, and just being off, and I myself being diagnosed with a sinus infection, we brought her to the pediatrician to have her checked out. Everything was clear -- no problems with her ears, nothing lingering in her chest -- so the pediatrician suggested the coolmist humidifier (which we were already doing) and 3/4 tsp of Benedryl at night to dry her up and help her sleep. Needless to say the Benedryl helped a LOT, but a week last she was still congested, and this time she was forming a cough, and I wasn't all that comfortable with giving her sleeping aids for longer than a week, so after my mothers was diagnosed with a sinus infection this time around, I called into the nurse and explained the situation to her. She was understandable, and we made a plan to have Samma brought in that afternoon -- have I mentioned how much I love having a pediatrician opened 7 days a week? As I was out and about, Chris brought Sam to her appointment, and again everything was clean and clear, and it was just a virus that we needed to let run its course. When Chris mentioned the Benedryl we were giving her, the doctor rolled her eyes.... this was the Sam doctor who was anti-Oragel, so we didn't take much to heart. She confirmed that they no longer give cough medicine to kids, so Benedryl was the only option left, and she even said herself that it's not going to hurt her, she just despises giving any child medicine for any reason.... old school hard ass.
Anyway, last night was the first night in over a week we put Sam to bed without the Benedryl. Other than a wakeup at 1:30am to change a wet diaper, and fussing at 5am to get out of bed at 5:30am, it wasn't that bad of a night -- her runny nose is more or less gone, but we're still fighting the cough, so it's good to see we're on the upswing!
The one thing that did come to light at the appointment was the doctor believed she had heard a heart murmur while checking Sam's chest. She didn't seem too concerned, and even assured me that it wasn't something that I needed to lose sleep over, but because she was a year old and we had never heard it before, she wanted confirmation from the pediatric cardiologist. Of course, the fact that we had never heard it before led her to believe it's an innocent murmur, and could have been heard for a number of reasons, but she still wanted Sam checked at Children's and would get the referral paperwork submitted for me. And that's where we'll be going this afternoon -- all the way out to Waltham in rush hour traffic for our 2:30pm appointment with the cardiology department with Children's Hospital. Again, I'm not trying to freak out -- heart murmurs happen all the time, even my sister has one! And the fact that it was never heard before, hasn't been heard since in the 2 times we've brought Sam back to the pedi (more on that later), and it clearly doesn't seem like it's affecting her way of life -- so it's really just going to have the confirmation of yes, she has an innocent murmur, or no, there's nothing there and no further need to worry.
So despite all of this, we've been fighting a nasty little bug that's made its way from Samma, to me, to my sister, to my mom, and finally to Chris... and the poor thing still has something lingering. After a week of Sam having a running nose, congestion, and just being off, and I myself being diagnosed with a sinus infection, we brought her to the pediatrician to have her checked out. Everything was clear -- no problems with her ears, nothing lingering in her chest -- so the pediatrician suggested the coolmist humidifier (which we were already doing) and 3/4 tsp of Benedryl at night to dry her up and help her sleep. Needless to say the Benedryl helped a LOT, but a week last she was still congested, and this time she was forming a cough, and I wasn't all that comfortable with giving her sleeping aids for longer than a week, so after my mothers was diagnosed with a sinus infection this time around, I called into the nurse and explained the situation to her. She was understandable, and we made a plan to have Samma brought in that afternoon -- have I mentioned how much I love having a pediatrician opened 7 days a week? As I was out and about, Chris brought Sam to her appointment, and again everything was clean and clear, and it was just a virus that we needed to let run its course. When Chris mentioned the Benedryl we were giving her, the doctor rolled her eyes.... this was the Sam doctor who was anti-Oragel, so we didn't take much to heart. She confirmed that they no longer give cough medicine to kids, so Benedryl was the only option left, and she even said herself that it's not going to hurt her, she just despises giving any child medicine for any reason.... old school hard ass.
Anyway, last night was the first night in over a week we put Sam to bed without the Benedryl. Other than a wakeup at 1:30am to change a wet diaper, and fussing at 5am to get out of bed at 5:30am, it wasn't that bad of a night -- her runny nose is more or less gone, but we're still fighting the cough, so it's good to see we're on the upswing!
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