The baby doc

We all went along for the follow up to the pediatrician, because there has been a lot of activity around hospitals for the last 10 days or so and wanted to avoid any fear on that score. It was a very short appointment. All of Thing Two's tests are within normal limits -- his bone age is 4 years old, his >impronounceable Dutch word for a chemical in the blood which indicates the level of growth hormone<>

He grew half a centimeter in the mean time.

The only test not within normal limits was that there was a trace of protein in his urine test which according to the doctor was so small that it was of zero interest.

So he sort of shrugged, said we had a very healthy small child, and suggested we come back in a year to see if anything had changed.