Today Cruz and I headed out for his 2 week doctor visit. He is back up (and a little past) his birth weight at 9 lbs. 11 oz and doing good overall. Just as I suspected, Cruz (like his brother, Callan) has a mild hypospadias. I won't go into deep detail about it but basically his little pee pee hole did not form 100% correctly and looks like it is "splayed open" a little bit. My doctor recommended following up with a urologist at 6 months old, but thought that he might not even want to repair it. Callan had surgery for it at 9 months of age and then back a 2 years of age for a hernia (which I now wonder if they might be connected and will have them check on Cruz). She also said he does have a small umbilical hernia that should heal itself... and now looking back at pictures, I wonder if Callan had that as well and it healed before the doctor ever caught it.
It kind of baffels me that Cruz would have a repeat of Callan's issues... and look just like Silas did. I have begun to pray now that these are the only issues that Cruz gets that mirror Callan.
Callan (from what I recall) was a good baby then suddenly started screaming at about 7 months old... he still has not stopped. That is how I found out about his hernia, his screaming. One day after a 2 hour bout of Callan's screaming I called the doctor and just said "HELP". They saw me, but the doctor (not my usual one) was quick to tell me that he could not even come into the room because of his screaming and that it was a discipline issue I needed to deal with. He told me to take him home put him in his bed and walk away.
It was a few days or a week later and I was still terribly upset that a doctor told me it was my fault that he was screaming. I went to change his diaper when I found his hernia. His entire boy parts were blue from where his intestines were in there. Callan had to have surgery #2 on his boy parts before 2 years of age.
Hopefully we will not have to go there!
Mom called and told me this was confusing... so let me clarify.
Callan had (and had surgery on) hypospadias and inguinal hernia. I think he had an umbilical hernia that corrected itself (based on what the Dr. said today and photos).
Cruz has umbilical hernia and hypospadias. I am going to have them check on an inguinal hernia because my mommy instinct tells me it may be related to the hypospadias.
