This is what happens when you post pictures of your daughter at the cardiologist on Flickr and then don’t get around to writing about like you thought you would: Everybody and their mother assumes the worst.
Jillian has an innocent murmur. Basically that means it is small, harmless, and actually pretty common. Our doctor recommended we see a specialist mostly because of her size. The murmur (basically a leak between parts of the heart) won’t affect her in any way.
Here she is getting an EKG. She did pretty well except she wanted to pull off one of the tabs:
Here she is getting her blood pressure taken with the world’s tiniest sphygmomanometer:
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What we don’t have any photos of is the 30-40 minute long ultrasound session. She had to sit very, very still for a very long time. It went better than I would have expected. Wesley would have jumped off the table, run down the hall, and hopped in the elevator after 5 minutes.
All told we were there for about 90 minutes. The result: You have a beautiful, active, baby with a common innocent murmur. It isn’t affecting her size. Next, we are off the to nutritionist. Who will probably say the same thing when we tell them she eats as much food as Wesley and often more.
Tags: cardiologist, Jillian, murmur