Day 5

This morning you had an appointment at the Balboa Pediatric clinic. You saw Dr. Corrow. You weigh 8 pounds .6 ounces still down from your birth weight but up from your discharge weight and your biliruben level on the forehead test was 12.5 that is up from 9 when you were discharged from the hospital. Dr. Corrow also checked out your hemangioma and sent a referral for you to see the pediatric dermatologist. Dr. Corrow explained that hemangioma's can grow in size and get puffy from birth to six months. From six months to a year there is usually no change and after one year they start to diminish. By age five 50% are gone and by age 9 90% are gone. You sure looked handsome today!