Jackson and his two week check up: The broken collar bone

---A lot of pictures have been added to the flickr pages!

Monday May 14th
Natalie, Jackson and I went to his doctor's office for his two week checkup.  We are almost late because Natalie is slow and perpetually makes me late for everything.  Sorry for the the tangent, back to the story.  The nurse weighs Jackson and he weighs 10 pounds 3 ounces.  We were pretty excited about this.

His weight when he was born was 8 pounds 13 ounces and when we left he was 8 pounds 5 ounces.  He lost a little bit of weight, but when we went to a check up at 5 days he had started putting back on the weight and he weighed 8 pounds 10 ounces.  Not back to birth weight but we were happy he was gaining weight.  This new measurement of 10 pounds 3 ounces was quite a gain and we were happy that he was feeding well. 

After he was weighed he tried peeing on the nurse, not really important but a funny site.  He sure likes to pee when his diaper is off. 

During the visit with the doctor she checked his belly button and cleaned off some of the remnants of his umbilical cord.  She said that it looked good.  That was a relief because we were worried that it might be a little infected.  Next she took a look at his right collar bone.  There was a bump on it that Beth, Natalie's Mom, and she had noticed in the recent days leading up to the visit.  The doctor was a little concerned because this was the shoulder that had gotten stuck during delivery.  She brought another doctor in and decided that we should see an orthopedic doctor.  We left that visit a little worried but the doctors had explained that because he had full range of motion and didn't seem to be in pain which was comforting.

His shoulder had gotten caught during the last moments of the pushing stage.  It called shoulder dystocia when a newborns shoulder gets caught when it tries to escape the womb.  The doctors had thought that everything was OK with it while we were in the hospital and it didn't seem to be bothering him.  Although in hindsight I remember when we were putting him in the car seat to take him home, the nurse really tightened the straps down on his shoulders.  He was crying pretty hysterically and then she was shoving her fingers under the strap right above his collar bone to see if it was tight enough, and he really didn't like it. 

Wednesday May 16th
Our doctor got us an appointment with a orthopedic doctor at 7:30 AM and we successfully made it there on time...but I did have to convince Natalie that she didn't have time to put all of her makeup on.  She would have made us late again!  Any way, the doctors decide that they needed an x-ray to see what was going on with the collar bone.  Mommy held him in position while they took their shot.  When the doctor met with us he showed us the x-ray image and you could see a definite fracture in his right collar bone.  They said there isn't really anything they could do, but it would heal fine.  They said the bump would probably disappear within a year.  That is a little scary but again they thought it would heal fine and that he wouldn't have any long term effects.

I am glad that we got it checked out and Natalie and I hope that everything will heal fine.  I asked the nurse if she would send me a copy of the x-ray so we would have a copy.  I haven't received it yet, but I will post it when we, if, we get it.
Toodles
Jacob