Two questions for the ladies

intparent
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:46:31 +0000

That “baseline of what is her normal” seems to me to be a bunch of hooey in some cases. Especially when it involves something like x-ray exposure.

Last time I heard that phrase was when D1 was a couple of weeks old and we had to take her into the local children’s hospital for “hip clicks”. The hospital where she was born heard them, and had us take her in when she was a couple of weeks old for a check. The doctor at the children’s hospital didn’t hear any clicks, but he was insistent on taking an x-ray right through her hip/genital area “for a baseline” in case she had to come back for something later. We said no, and got a note in our chart as “obstructionist parents”. My first act of helicoptoring, now that I think about it. :D