Many thanks to bringing up the post on PDA.  I thought it sounded familiar
and when Marie gave the correct term I knew why.  My son was born only 5
days early in October 1995, but at his 2 week check up the pediatrician said
that he had 2 heart murmurs. We scheduled a visit to a pediatric heart
specialist and he did indeed have 2, one was a 'normal' heart murmur and the
other caused by PDA.  He did an echocardiogram and you could plainly see
where the blood was flowing it was amazing.

The doctor never portrayed it as being very serious but said that he wanted
to see us at around one year because then we would discuss surgery,if it
hadn't fixed itself, otherwise we would always have to make sure he had
antibiotics before the dentist and other precautionary things that we could
avoid by the surgery.

At 12-1/2 months he was 10kg,  and his cardiac exam was normal.

I went to the boys file to get this information and found that I was to take
him back for a final exam in November of 1999 because he was very fussy for
the exam in '96, he kept crying and wouldn't quiet for the stethoscope, etc.
 He hated doctors. So, it is a year late but I am calling to schedule an
appointment today.  Just to make sure everything is still normal.

Now with my son I never thought that he tired easily, he was just very fussy
at the breast for the first month or so, but I had a good supply and he must
have received what he needed.  He cried alot and I spent the most part of
the first three months holding him up at night for he hated to lie down.(We
would curl up in the corner of the couch, me sitting with a pillow at my
neck and him cradled in my folded up legs and my arms wrapped around him.)
I just told everyone that he was my fussy or colicky baby and I would give
him all of the holding that he needed.

I am lucky that he wasn't as severe as what I am reading about here.

Cheryl Marian, CLC, CLE

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