6th month check-up

Jenna had her six month check-up yesterday! She is doing good, other than this nasty cough she has had for the past two weeks but I'll talk about that in a minute. She is now 14lbs 6 oz, which puts her in the 21% for weight, which great considering that at her 2 week check-up she was in the 4th percentile. She is in the 59% of height. And no big surprise here, her head was, well.... off the charts big, but I personally think they were just a little too generous with the head measurement. She is doing all what a cute little six month old like herself should be doing, rolling over, sitting up, eating baby food, and grabbing just about everything she can. So much fun.

Anyways like I said she has had this yucky cough for about 10 days now. I took her to the Dr. 10 days ago when it started to get bad and she checked out fine so I wasn't worried. The Dr. said if she gets worse bring her in. Well she has never gotten worse it just hasn't gone away. So on Wed. the Dr. listened to her lungs and decided that she better get a chest x-ray.

Well have you ever seen what they put little babies into for a chest x-ray. The only words that come to my mind is pure torture. I searched and searched for a good image to show, but this is the only one that I could find which was kind of close.



Now notice how the baby is smiling and happy to be there and thinking this is lots of fun. Well...that is SO not how it really is. There is NO cute blanket hanging up, just a black one. NO teddy bear sitting next to you, no you are in this cold empty room with only a bed and huge x-ray machine. And you don't get to stand there and hold her arms up. NO! NO! NO! They do make them straddle and then you put there arms up in the air over there ears while they enclose them in this plastic type wrap and then strap it closed. REALLY it's like pure torture not only for the baby, but for the parent that has to watch her baby be like this. And then they make you leave the room to take the x-ray! Luckily it didn't last very long, but I hated watching Jenna in this think. UGH!

So I guess what Jenna has is bronchiolitis, which is the baby form of bronchitis. She is really been so good, you would never guess that she is sick until you hear her cough. I just hope that it ends soon!