New specialist!

So, we finally crossed one specialist off the list of many (the cardiologist) just to add another one.

So I brought Sylvia into her normal 4 month check up. Shot day, yuck! Everything has been going wonderful. Had good news from the cardiologist and everything.

Dr. was examining Sylvia, and making sure she was developing in each area as she should be. Well apparently she hasn't been. When the Dr. was trying to line up her toes with her knee they didn't match up the way she had wanted them to. Her right foot had bent in just slightly. It's not as severe as a club foot, however it is still something that needs to be corrected!

This caught me totally off guard. Out of everything going on I didn't think that I would have to deal with these issues! Apparently this issue is connected with her cleft. How? I don't know! Apparently the Dr. says she has to be missing a piece of some chromosome in her body. We haven't done this testing yet.

We did some blood work to rule out some other syndromes, and she doesn't have any of those. At 12 months she would like to do some more blood work to find out what it is that is making all these little flaws. I guess right now it isn't necessary just because we don't really NEED to know. It would just be a piece of mind.

As far as the leg issue goes, we'll be making the wonderful trip back up north! Not sure when but we need to meet with the Pediatric Orthopedist. Chances are she'll be in a brace of some sort but the Dr. seems very confident to believe that it will be corrected by the time she's 2.

I'm so curious to see what this little girl becomes. She sure is strong. I hope she does something amazing with her life. After seeing everything she's been through in her first 4 months of life, I believe she's capable of anything!