Kirstie and I went to the doctor last week to have her weight checked again. While there, I told the doctor that Kirstie's umbilical cord hadn't fallen off yet. This concerned her because she was almost 4 weeks old. We were told to start putting rubbing alcohol on it with each diaper change and call her on Friday. If it didn't fall off, we would have to do more blood work and tests to check her white blood cell count.
By Friday, it still hadn't fallen off, but was a little loose. The doctor said we could wait to come in for testing until next Tuesday, if we wanted. The cord wasn't making much progress in falling off, but we desperately wanted to avoid more testing if possible.
We called our dads, and they and Brent gave Kirstie a blessing on Sunday evening. When I got up with her at 4:00 that morning, the cord was barely hanging on and fell off by 9:00-- just 12 hours after the blessing. We're so thankful for priesthood blessings and prayers.
I took Kirstie in again to be weighed. 7 pounds, 2 ounces! We also don't have to go back until her 2 month appointment! As much as I like our pediatrician, I'm grateful to be done with these frequent doctor visits!
4 comments:
That is good news! I am sure you'll miss sitting in those disease filled waiting rooms!
I'm glad she's okay. She is getting cuter and cuter! We'll have to play around with our blogs together sometime. Talk to you soon!
Kim Lambert
Your new template is cute guys! I really like your blog! Jason wanted to give a shout out to Brent and have him check out his fantasy football team and comment. You can find the link on our website. See ya!
Kim
Hello Wendy!!!!!
Just letting you know we stopped by!! We are adding you to our family bloglist. Ours is theperrinexperience.blogspot.com Your little one is ADOREABLE!! Love you guys, Take Care!!
Jake and Steph
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