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June 10, 2001
Alright, y’all, time for an update. Logan is growing very well. He’s already in size 2 diapers! He is 5 weeks old, and has begun smiling and cooing. He’s still a ridiculously easy and mellow baby, too. He’s just delightful.
Last week, the nurse from our pediatrician called. The results of Logan’s second newborn screen had come back and showed low thyroid levels. This indicated Logan might have Congenital Hypothyroidism, meaning he either had no thyroid gland at all, or that it was nonfunctional. Without adequate thyroid hormone, develop severe health problems ranging from extremely slow growth to mental retardation. But Congenital Hypothyroidism is easily treated with a daily pill, and the treated child grows up normally.
The nurse quickly assured me that the newborn screen frequently gives false positives, especially for hypothyroidism.
At any rate, the pediatrician wanted me to bring Logan in the next day to have blood drawn to do a thyroid screen. I did, and the results happily showed Logan’s thyroid levels were perfectly normal. Logan is healthy, and does not have congenital hypothyroidism. The pediatrician told me she expected it to come up negative for hypothyroidism because Logan showed no symptoms for it.
Jake is growing too. (grin) He’ll be 29 months old in three days, and his vocabulary is expanding by leaps and bounds. His pronunciation is becoming clearer to other people too. He is still nursing, and becoming more patient about waiting his turn.
We do still have problems with tantrums, and especially with throwing things at people and hitting. I try to learn about how to deal with his aggression, but everything I read is about toddlers hitting other children. They suggest I should ignore the hitter, and shower attention on the hurt child. But what do you do when the toddler hits you? It’s not as if I can shower attention on myself… And ignoring him just leads to more extreme efforts to get my attention, and it’s not a lesson I want to teach anyway.
All in all, things are going very well, considering I spend 24 hours a day with a high needs toddler and a teeny baby.
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