Latest clinic visit

Well yesterday was a long one! We started out our clinic day with a gentlemen giving us his weekly parking pass as his son was released sooner than expected. Yeah, score for us! This was a great day to receive this since I would later be going back for a parent night therefore paying for parking twice, which is not cheap at the hospital.

At the beginning of our visit, Nash checking out the playground from the window

Once our appointment started we were cruising through seeing everyone and we thought maybe we'd get out of there early! Then after about two hours we hit a wall, starting to have more wait time in between seeing people. Nash kept it together for a couple of hours but I must say, by the third hour it was getting to be a bit much and had to pull out the Baby Einstein on the IPhone. We got him calmed down and then I rocked him to sleep and he had his afternoon nap on the bed. It took everything for P.J. not to get on that hospital bed and have a nap himself. The only person we had left to see was the Respirologist on that day. Well I can appreciate the time that she was taking with another patient, and would hope they would take that time with my son if needed, we waited over another hour to see her for five minutes. At one point I left and walked the halls thinking they had forgotten about us. It was a ghost town and then finally found someone who checked and then assured us we weren't forgotten. So after it was all said and done it was a four hour clinic day. Next visit I'm packing magazines and a lunch!

Keeping him entertained while waiting

So, we didn't hear anything we weren't already expecting to at this visit. Nash is doing great for the most part...his lungs are clear, his motor development is great, he grew 2.5 cms and then there's his weight...let's just say they didn't pull out the growth chart and plot his height and weight this month. I'm sure they don't want me to stress but it's hard not to, in two months he's gained just under a pound putting him at 14 pounds, 4 ounces yesterday. So we're going to try feeding more frequently, continue adding the powdered formula into the breastmilk once a day and go back in two weeks. We won't have a full clinic appointment but will have him weighed and since he'll be almost 6 months, they will do his blood work and put his poo under a microscope.

After leaving clinic we had a quick visit and supper with friends that live in the North end so that I could go back to the hospital for the parent night. It was great to meet a few other parents and put forward questions and hear suggestions from parents who have been at this a while as well as clinic staff. One thing we did talk about was the wait time during clinic. I'm not sure how this can improve but maybe Home Concepts can install a few tv's!