A Long Awaited Appointment

I started this post last week and got sidetracked! We have a bunch to post, but we've been super busy...
Back in August when we got the confirmation that we had an appointment with the developmental specialist, the date seemed so far off. Of course the months have flown by, and finally this past Tuesday we met with the doctor from KKI. Before I was pregnant I always said I was going to probably be a neurotic parent regarding my child's milestones. My profession lends itself to these thoughts, and all kids reach milestones at different speeds. Since Chase came so early we end up looking at the 3 month range between his corrected and chronological age on developmental charts.

Since I'm familiar with the facility and services-heck they are one of our competitors:) I knew what to expect going into our appointment. After we had the required meeting with the social worker and answered lots of questions we finally got to meet the doctor. Chase at this point had already scoped out the room, tried to grab every medical instrument within reach, and ripped up a good portion of the paper on the exam table.
The doctor couldn't have been more down-to-earth and the evaluation went great! Ultimately Chase is pretty much where he should be developmentally and the doctor had no concerns. Although we already pretty much knew this, it was awesome to get the info from an expert:) His recommendations were pretty much "read to him daily and enrich his day with language". Done, no problem. Chase loves books(eating them especially) and you all know I like to talk.

So finally here we are-we've made it to our last specialist and hopefully our last appt. until Chase's 1 yr. well visit in June. He'll require one more set of follow up exams toward the end of the year, but otherwise that's it!

Just for the heck of it here's the rundown: Neonatologist(daily while in the NICU), Neonatal Nurse Practitioners and Physician's Assistants(daily while in the NICU) Developmental Pediatrician(lots),Pulmonologist(2x), Respiratory Therapist(daily while in the NICU), Pediatric Opthamalogist(4x), Cardiologist(2x), Occupational Therapist(1x), Speech Therapist(1x) and last but not least the Developmental Specialist(1x). All before he's 10 months old.