First Dr. Appointment

We made it though our first week home. Grace had her first appointment with Pia, our pediatrician. Pia was very encouraging and happy with her overall health. she was very happy with the way Gracie seemed to be bonding with me. She says sleep issues will probably last about 6 months. I showed her pictures of her foster home so she had and idea of where she was coming from. It is hard for me to describe her foster home. She slept in a broken crib without a mattress with her foster brother. The crib was beside the kitchen table. The walls and floor concrete. We decided to take every precaution concerning immunizations and run a load of tests. We will get them done in the next couple of weeks. Grace's rib cage protrudes a bit so we are going to x-ray that to see if there was a fracture or something. Of course Pia was horrified as we all were at Grace's teeth. So many of them are rotten. The teeth that you can see when she smiles look o.k. which is nice but boy oh boy don't look too close. Pia says to expect a lot of metal! We meet with the entire cleft team Nov. 3rd so we will wait until then to see their dentist. Grace still has a small hole in her palate that will need to be repaired so they will probably do it all at once. We will update more about the medical stuff when we get tests back. Pray!