Sometimes, it's nice to miss your doctor. My doctor, who I was going to use as the pediatrician for DJ, was not available when DJ was born to either see him in the hospital (she doesn't work at Inova Alexandria) or for his first appointment (family emergency apparently). So we made an appointment with one of the other doctors in the practice. And we lucked out. Since the doctor was brand new to the practice, he had one of the partners shadowing him. The partner doctor, Dr. B, was unbelievably awesome. My B was rather nervous about the appointment. He was worried we were doing something terribly wrong with the baby. I knew better.
Dr. B examined DJ and fawned over him the whole time. It was so cool. He is a great doctor and seemed very knowledgeable. After checking all of DJ's reflexes, he concluded that DJ was about as advanced as you can get in a new born. Yay!
We confirmed that the missing testicle is hiding in DJ's body cavity, so that's good news. Other than that, DJ was perfect. He was supremely sweet to the doctor. I think he liked being handled, and it was incredibly warm in the exam room.
When they weighed him, he was nearly back to his birth weight, being 6lbs 6oz. The nurse also concluded that he was only 18 inches, and not 21 as the hospital tried to indicate. I wonder how they made such a mistake. DJ is pretty wriggly.
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