Tough guy

Yesterday Jarem had his 4 month check-up. We were so excited to see how big he is getting and ask all our questions about his development. I got a call in the morning from Jarem's daycare though asking us if we knew about any problems with Jarem's right ear. His teacher said it was leaking some green goop. (That's the technical term.) GROSS!

I had been noticing since Monday that when I cleaned his ears after bath time each night he seemed to be having a large amount of wax. I showed it to Eric, my mom and even Aunt Linda. They all reassured me that it was probably nothing. Well when I heard that it was green yesterday I started to get scared.

I called the nurse's line at Gateway Pediatrics (Jarem's pediatrician office) and told them what had been happening. While dialing and holding I also googled his symptoms and found that he probably had a hole in his ear drum. Sure enough Google was right. While at Jarem's appointment yesterday we found out that Jarem had an ear infection that went undetected. He ended up getting a hole in his ear drum and the green goop was the fluid from his infection discharging. Yummy!

He has amoxicillin and ear drops to help him heal. We go back in two weeks to make sure the hole has repaired itself in his ear drum. Our little Jarem is such a tough guy! We didn't even know he had an ear infection. He's still our calm, cuddly, smiley and happy little boy. We really don't want him to be prone to ear infections like mommy was. We want him to have daddy's ears since Eric has never had an ear infection. Pretty amazing!

About Jarem's pediatrician, Dr. Sudha. She is the most amazing pediatrician in the whole entire world!! Dr. Sudha was recommended to us by Karen and Uriel and we couldn't be more grateful. She is such an amazing doctor! It is so fun to watch her with Jarem. She loves on him and really has a personal relationship with her patients. When I interviewed pediatricians I had Rose in mind. The way Rose talks about her patients and runs her practice is something we wanted. Dr. Sudha has a new beautiful and amazing office. Not to mention her associate Dr. V is also amazing. They visited us everyday while we were at the hospital. We absolutely love Gateway Pediatrics and especially Dr. Sudha.

Last note, Jarem weighed 17 pounds 8 ounces and is in the 90% percentile for height, weight and head circumference. He's doing great!