Erika's 7-year old well visit check-up was a "little bit late". She turned 7 in April. We went for her check-up on October 2, 2017 ( Read more... )

Thur 9/24: 18-month well visit check up. Mentioned nasal congestion/ear infection; no medicine prescribed ( Read more... )

Amelia was evaluated on Tuesday 1/19/2016 by the New Jersey Early Intervention program/system. She was found to be not eligible for the program, as she is not 1.5 standard deviations below the mean in any of the developmental areas (a Z-Score of -1.50 or greater in the negative direction ( Read more... )

Sometimes you get entrenched, and then the years fly by, and you think to yourself "why are we still here?" and "why do we continue to torture ourselves like this?" When I was pregnant with Erika six years ago, I didn't know any pediatricians in our area, so I asked my OBGYN for some recommendations. She said she didn't know any of them personally ( Read more... )

Amelia's statistics ( Read more... )

It's been 10 days since I posted about Amelia getting sick again, with the coxsackie virus and ear infection, and guess what, she's still miserably sick. Deep chesty coughs, shaking her entire body, coughing to the point that she throws up, coughing until she is gasping for air, coughing until she is so tired of coughing that she starts to cry, ( Read more... )

Amelia had to take 10 days of antibiotics for an ear infection before Spring Break (April 3, 2015 ( Read more... )

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Brian took our two girls to get their flu shots today. 4-year old Erika cried more than 7-month Amelia did ( Read more... )

I blinked, and my baby Amelia turned half a year old.

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