With all of the craziness that has
been going on in the past few days (Birthday Extravaganza Giveaway
Event on here, moving out of my parents' house finally, AND Myka's
birthday party all happening the weekend before last, to name a few),
Myka also had her 2 year check up on the 14th as well. To
be honest, I was just glad I remembered it. In all seriousness,
though, I'm very glad and thankful that we found such a good
pediatrician up here.
I am very, let's say, particular,
about doctors. I am personally not a huge fan of going to any type of
doctor unless I think something is seriously wrong. My daughter is a
different story, though, even if I'm still kind of picky about what
pediatrician we go to. I've made sure to take her to all of her
“regular” appointments these first two years of her life, even if
I felt like at least one of them was a waste of time. So, when it
came time to find her a pediatrician in Indiana, I figured there was
no better way to find suggestions for a good one than “word of
mouth”: I asked my friends and family for their input on Facebook.
I was
astounded when I received personal suggestions for literally only one
doctor in the area from at least
6 or 7 of my friends. I won't mention his name, but needless to say,
I was eager to give him a try! Since I'm so funny about the
physicians we see, I wasn't anxious, for lack of a better way to put
it, like I normally am when waiting to meet a doctor for the first
time.
Let
me just say, I am SO glad we decided to go with him! He was so nice,
spent quite a bit of time talking with us and asking us questions (I
think we were back there with him for at least 20 minutes! Sorry! I'm
that person,
evidently.), spoke to my daughter as I would (you know, like a real
person!), was not judgmental at all (the reason I stopped taking Myka
to her first pediatrician), explained everything to me, and genuinely
seemed to care what I had to say AND about my daughter. So, on top of
all that, why I am so glad we found this guy?
Well,
because he had a bit of bad news for us. Now before you go thinking
that I've got Munchhausen’s
bi-proxy or
something, let me explain. He actually checked Myka's diaper area
when he was examining her. I can only remember either of her Arkansan
pediatricians checking in that area once before and that's only
because I remember having to fix her diaper after. He never commented
on anything down there. And honestly, I always thought it was kind of
strange that they didn't
check “down there” during her routine examinations. Since this is
my first child and, well, I'm not a doctor, I don't know if this is
something that is supposed
to be done during routine exams, but I think it should be, even if
they are just babies and toddlers.
As it turns out,
Myka has labial adhesions. In layman's terms, part of her coochie (as
we call it) is fused together that shouldn't be. While it causes no
problems now, it will when she starts her menstrual cycle. As the
doctor stated, “back in the old days” it wouldn't be caught until
a girl started her menses and caused toxicity...Or something along
those lines. (Myka was screaming at that point because she doesn't
like the doctor poking and prodding at her with the stethoscope and
otoscope and it was hard to hear what he was saying.)
So, we will have
to see a pediatric urologist. Quite frankly, I'd rather get it taken
care of sooner rather than later so that she hopefully won't remember
any of it...especially if (for whatever reason) we have to have it
cut. One of my friend's daughter had the same thing several years ago
when she was still in diapers. Since there is concern of infection if
they cut it and the child is still in diapers and having fecal matter
next to an open wound, chances are we will just have to use some
estrogen cream for awhile. While I don't necessarily like the idea of
rubbing synthetic hormones on my daughter, especially in her private
area, it seems like a much less painful and invasive way of taking
care of it.
I can't help but
wonder, though, what would have happened if we stayed in Arkansas and
kept sending her to the same pediatric office. Would the labial
adhesions gone unnoticed? Would she have had problems when she
started her period and gotten really sick from it? Have any of you
with daughters gone through this as well?
