4 month checkup

Gavin had his four month well visit with the Dr. yesterday and it was not a good time for either of us.
His stats -
Weight - 18 lbs 4 oz - 90th percentile
Length - 25 3/4 inches - 90th percentile
Head - 17 1/4 inches - 75th percentile

After all that the "fun" began.  Gavin has had a cough and a yucky nose for the past month and a half and has been on some medicine for the past month.  So I mentioned it to them when I got there because even though he hasn't had a fever, I felt like we needed to take a different course of action.  So the nurses attempted to take his oxygen levels with that thing that fits over there toes or fingers.  He is a restless little thing so it took many attempts and he got pretty ill.  Not to mention his is just in his diaper and it is FREEZING in the office and Gavin does NOT like to be cold!  Also to his credit, he hadn't had his morning nap so he was understandably a tad bit grouchy :-).

Then came the poking and prodding in his ears, the cold stethoscope listening to his heartbeat and lungs, and then putting that wooden thing in his mouth so she could look at his throat.  So by this time he was screaming with displeasure.  Then she took off his diaper to check and make sure he didn't have any diaper rash and then she inspected his circumcision.  Well as she was talking to me all the sudden she just ripped the skin back.  I almost fainted and I can not even imagine how much it hurt poor little Gavin.  Apparently his skin had started to reattach itself so she quickly and without warning detached it.  Poor little guy was bleeding and screaming at the top of his lungs!  Thankfully Clay was sitting across the room and didn't get the full view or he probably would have died right there.

Well after all that they decided we needed to do breathing treatments and start him on some antibiotics to see if we could clear everything up.  They wanted to go ahead and do one breathing treatment in the office so we could see how it was done.  So just after Gavin had fallen asleep on Clay's chest, they bring in this machine that is not particularly quiet to blow this medicine fog into Gavin's face.  Well the first minute or two went ok because Gavin was still asleep.  Then he woke up and realized what was going on and started screaming again!  So we had to hold his head still and keep that mist in his face for the next five minutes.

Thankfully because he was a little sick they decided not to give him the shots he was scheduled for.  I think if they had, Gavin might never have forgiven us.  

Below is a picture of him after attempting to give him his pink antibiotic.  You can't get the full effect because while I was getting the camera, he wiped the majority of the pink stuff off of his face.  He must have realized what I was about to do :-).