Well last Friday when we got home from daycare Natalie was chewing on anything she could get in her mouth including my fingers. I noticed that she had a tooth just starting to come in. Yesterday when we were at the ENT he said that she had 2, low and behold she does. She is too busy chewing her tongue for me to get a picture. I will try this weekend.
So yes, we took her to the ENT yesterday and he ran some tests. He showed 100% blockage in her left ear and 80% in her right from all the fluid. I asked if this was affecting her hearing... he said that long term this will not since she is so young. But right now if you were to take ear plugs and put them in your ears and then take the headphones that they wear in the pits of car races and put those on that is about the way she is hearing. I am very disappointed in her pediatrician that she did not refer me to an ENT. I will be in the process of finding a new one now. Joe and I were talking and we are glad that we trusted our instincts to go around the pediatrician and take her to an ENT ourselves, this could have been so much worse had we waited. So tubes next Thursday. Dr. said that we should see a huge difference by Friday. He also said that now when she cries in the middle of the night it will not be out of pain from her ears and we can let her cry it out for a while.
I hope to get pictures this weekend of the teeth and will post them soon. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
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