21 Month Weight Check
Greetings to everyone.
Yesterday was a day of heavy snow, making this morning's streets during rush hour unpleasant for travel. Xavier's twenty-one month weight check was at 8:00 AM this morning, and Dr. Abbey's office is :30 minutes away without traffic and adverse road conditions.
Xavier is doing well. He is on his own growth chart, but tracking it smoothly. His curve is following the nominal curves, only he is in the one percentile. So, Dr. Abbey has no concerns about his weight gain. I was a little disappointed, hoping Xavier would be at or just over 18 pounds. Alas, he weighed in at 17 pounds 3.8 ounces. We really need to replace the scale in our house—it lies and builds false hope!
Length-wise, Xavier is a little accelerated. He measured 30 and 3/4 inches.
The Little Professor has been fighting a cold these last few days (his coughing two nights ago had his parents concerned; he spent the night on Dad's chest so he could maintain an optimal drainage angle and get some sleep). We were thinking infection like he has had recently. Today's exam found his lungs and ears clear, so no worries on this front; just a little cold.
The one problem Xavier has, which Rebecca and I have started taking concern for recently, is one he has had for a while. We hoped he would outgrow it, but it seems to have grown into a bigger issue instead: his tongue tie.
It may be a difficulty in his speech and it may be a problem in his eating and swallowing. Though his molars are still coming in (a lot of gums in the back of his mouth still), Xavier still pushes food back into his mouth with his finger. Due to the tongue tie? We do not know. Rebecca will ask Robin tomorrow, and Dr. Abbey has given us a referral to Children's to have a specialist look at it.
Xavier's tie is difficult, being highly vascular. This morning, Dr. Abbey cut part of it unintentionally with a tongue depressor as he examined Xavier's tongue. (Of course, Xavier squirming and fighting the exam added to the reason for the cut). Xavier bled quite nicely for a while. The bleeding was brought under control and a referral was written up.
To cut the tie means surgery. It means general anesthetic. It means putting Xavier under, and Rebecca and I are not sure about that. He is only 17 pounds! It's a sure bet that should a surgery be recommended, Dad and Mom will be grilling surgeons and anesthesiologists hard and heavy! We'll wait and hear what the specialist at Children's has to say.