We made it through the pedi appointment unscathed. Things I discussed:
- she’s always tired and wakes up from a 12 hour rest yawning.
- she’s violent and defiant and um, glares – except for when she’s angelic and helpful and super-duper social.
- wheat and milk.
- allergies and how I’ve said since the day that she was born that she shouldn’t have bags under her eyes, never mind the dark circles.
- aka “allergenic shiners”
- for the first time in her life, she’s in the 50%s for height and weight!
- how to collect a urine sample from a kiddo still mostly in diapers.
- she drinks around 15 extra ounces of fluid a day that she shouldn’t need.
Then he said:
- test her for celiac’s and dairy allergies, diabetes, thyroid levels, anemia.
- stop giving her 4 oz of juice a day, diluted with 4oz of water – empty calories and she shouldn’t need the fluids.
- she’s really investigative, communicative and comprehensive.
- she seems to understand everything I say and ask, and willfully ignores it – that might just be a behavioural problem.
- her liver is the right size and location.
- she has a lot of gas in her tummy, which is why she goes from nearly six-packs to buddha within a short period of time.
- I have a lot of patience. (ahuh, ya right)
- I’m doing a lot of things right: giving her structured choices, routine and, consequences for her actions are followed through on – I never emptily threaten.
- I know her really well. Ie when his assistant came in to try to distract her from climbing on a step stool (um, it’s for stepping) and she had a gigantic, soft duck puppet, I said, “aw thanks but she’s really not a toy kid.” and she took the duck away from the woman and put it on the ground – going back to attempting to reorganize the doc’s textbooks.
By now, I’m so exhausted – it was another no nap day, complete with the park, walking home from the doctor’s office, the myth that children won’t let themselves starve (bunk. seriously, she will. and then she’ll go to sleep. and dream of heroes or something cuz she’ll wake up from a night terror and all she’ll be able to say is,
“nax!”)
