Cardiology Check-up 1/21/09

Before leaving on vacation, Maddie had a visit to Children's Bellevue with Dr. Vernon. Yes, we got to see our original cardiologist again since her return from maternity leave! Meg's first remarks when seeing Miss Maddie were, "she's HUGE!" since she hadn't seen her in person for 7 months (only in pictures). Maddie has figured out what's up now and started crying the minute we began the appt. She is, in fact, HUGE, weighing in at 8.20 kilos=18.0 lbs!!! WOW! The 28 cal is doing the job plus her new LOVE of feeding herself since she's topping off at around 20 oz a day with her bottles. This puts her in the 18th percentile for weight. Her height is 28.15 inches, 25th percentile. So we were super excited about her growth. She also had an EKG, an echo, and sats were 81%. Maddie has leveled out in the low 80's since her Glenn. We ended up getting a good echo with the help of Maddie lying on mommy's chest/lap with a sucker in hand!!! Hey, whatever works to get a good look at that heart of hers! She devoured it and we were able to get a thorough echo done :) Everything looks about the same, her P.A's are still small, the branch that was narrowing looked about the same and we learned of some new news that she has mild aortic valve regurgitation. The left side of her heart is dilated because it does all of the work so a little leaking is "normal" with her anatomy. We don't have to follow up for 4 months! That's good news in itself!