Well baby check-up

Callie had her two month well-baby check yesterday. She did really well. She weighs about 10 lbs. 5 oz. and is 23 inches long. So that puts her in the 12th percentile for her weight and 45th percentile for the length. The doctor said she looks like she is doing well, and her ear infection is getting better. Callie was going to get her two month immunization shots, but when we arrived at the pediatrician's office she had a lot more petechiae (little red dots that look like broken blood vessels). Sometimes this is a sign of a lower platelet level, and since she still had the ear infection we didn't do the shots. Our pediatrician actually had us go to Cook Children's to get a platelet count to make sure she was okay, and her count was 37,000, which is up 10,000 from Monday. This seemed like a huge jump to me, especially with her being sick. The doctor said sometimes the counts can be wrong, but that he wasn't worried about her and she looked okay. So, Callie will start getting her shots on Jan. 28th. She will get the four shots over four days, so that should be interesting.