Ten-month doctor's visit

This was not one of my favorite doctor's visits. After checking Dylan, the doctor began talking about an "impurity" and I thought she was referring to his skin as he still has eczema outbreaks on occasion. No, she said. "He has a heart murmur."

"No, he doesn't," I responded quickly. "They told us that was a newborn thing and by one year, he would have outgrown it." The day after Dylan was born, he was rushed to the neonatal cardiologist because the nurses thought they heard something unusual with his heart. Cristiano went with him and (fortunately) I don't remember this at all because I was trapped in bed in a post C-section stupor. The day after the surgery was when I was in the most pain. Anyway, I remember them saying that it was nothing, that most newborns have murmurs and that it was something five years ago they never would have even heard or known about because they didn't have the technology. Now the pediatrician is saying he has some kind of "systolic impurity" and we have to go do some specialist visits.

Then there's the problem of his phimosis, which has not improved. If it doesn't get better by one year, he may need to be circumsized. Regardless, we also need to make an appointment to see a surgeon to get his or her opinion.

Growth-wise he is beginning to slow down, which is normal as his activity level has increased. He weighs 22.2 pounds, which puts him in the 50th to 75th percentile, and is 29 inches long, which puts him in the 50th percentile.

I know he's fine but I'm a little rattled by the visit as normally everything is very routine and we are in and out quickly. I don't like the idea of this heart murmur and his having to be circumsized.