Pediatrician Time!

So we started off the week with a visit to a new (but not really improved) doctor for the kids. Insurance complications prevent us from staying with our old and beloved doctor Jackie so we switched to one closer to home, affiliated with Mt. Sinai (where twins will be born), that takes our insurance. The place was tiny and kind of depressing so I am not sure that we will stay there (newborns go to the doctor every two seconds so I will be spending a lot of time there). Some highlights of the visit included J asking me if a door marked EXIT in the examination room was an escape door, the antiquated doctor telling each child to look away while she examined the other's privates (ha!), and the nurse telling M that drawing blood would not hurt right after I told her the opposite. I fail to understand what the point of lying to children is. Of course it fucking hurt and she cried as the needle had to stay in for two minutes to draw all of the blood out. I was asked lots of age inappropriate questions (too easy for M and too hard for J) and MoJo could not, would not, follow directions during the hearing tests. It is truly possible that they are both deaf. J's eyesight test was amusing too because after asking me if he knew letters (no!) they used a symbols chart but those were weird too. Nothing normal like smiley faces and apples but rather one symbol was a plus sign (or a crucifix or the red cross symbol, depending on how you see it) and what the hell was he supposed to call that? There was a mug which J called "teapot" and I guess they deduced that he is not blind. So, the good part was that we were in and out pretty fast and I learned that M weighs 56.6lbs!! and J 38. She is in the 90s and he is in the 70s for percentile of height/weight. Nothing too surprising. Happy Tuesday!