My mom took Tino to the doctor last week.
They saw Dr John Adams, the best paediatrician in town.
He said:
1. Tino now weighs 21lbs and is 75 cm in length. 21lbs is actually overweight (waaaay overweight) for a baby her age, but in relation to her height, she is perfectly fine.
2. Her muscles lack tone. She needs to drink more water to tone up her muscles. Keige pe ua unfit. Otherwise her bones and everything are great. Her reflexes are good. Her head support is good. She does all the things she should be doing at 7 months.
3. She had nappy rash which wouldn't go away and seemed to be spreading. John said we should have brought her in earlier (bad mother me!) and that it's developed into excema - a skin irritation of red, tiny, flaky skin with cracks or tiny blisters. It didn't look that bad! But yeah. So he prescribed an oral antibiotic and a skin cream.
4. Don't let her use a walker until she is 9 months old. It's not good to force her development. Give her time and she'll get there. Phew. Tino just got a walker and I was unsure about that. Now we know!
5. Her feet are facing outwards. We need to massage it inwards at least 5 minutes every night to make sure that she doesn't become a duck. Hehe.
6. Otherwise, she's perfectly normal.
Apparently Tinto was squealing and talking and laughing at the hospital. What a charmer. Dr Adams was laughing at her and all the noise she was making at the hospital.
I felt bad not taking her to see John earlier but at least she's alright now. It's a lesson for me - thinking that I am paranoid is not a bad thing. I should take her to the doctor as soon as I notice something not right about her. The thing is, in the past I've done that, and I've taken her to Dr Herbert Peters, who keeps saying she's fine and I'm just being paranoid!!
Oh well, as long as she's fine, I don't care about anything else.
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you know Elsa has bloomin' duck feet from sitting on them the way da Japanese do. Ka fiu e faasao le gofo but she reverts back to her geisha ways when I am not around.
Doc says we can get her correctional shoes if we dont want her to walk with her knees knocking together but maybe its better this way. E faigaka ai ga lo'u ma le ako laufala pe a sola e avaga pe a makua *jokes*
Yeah, I heard about using a walker & its effects. They say to let the baby naturally go from crawling to learning to get up and take its first steps. (You know how I was have it a lot of babies???lol) Apparently there was a workshop for people who missed out on that part of their development and now as adults they're a bit 'lacking' in something(?)...so they have to learn to crawl..as adults. Some new-agey type stuff.
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