02/09/2009
Will turned two months old last Thursday, so I took him into the doctors for his shots. Poor little guy! I wanted to do all of them at once so that he wouldn't have mulitple days of shots to look forward to. That kid sure can scream. And since he was getting four shots, as soon as he'd start calming down from one, they'd be ready to give him the next. Dr. Merrick said that Will has a heart murmur, but it's faint and functional, so nothing to worry about. This is certainly the first we've heard of it; I don't know if it's just something everyone kept missing or if it's a new development. We decided we'd go ahead and make an appointment with a pediatrician to have it checked out and get him circumsized. Well, the pediatricians office said that you won't find anybody who will do circumcisions on children between the ages of two weeks and one year old. And once they hit a year old, a urologist has to do it. Apparantly it's got to do with the way the blood vessels are developing. So there is no way we could have taken care of this when he was two weeks or less, because they also won't do them on premies because their bodies have enough going on. I guess we have ten months to weigh all the pros and cons and decide if it's really something we want to have done. We probably still will, but we'll see.
