My Family: Monday: Everyday Life with Triplets

  This week was challenging, to say the least.  On Thursday, we had our doctors appointment.  Adrik weighs 23 pounds, Tali 20 pounds, and Charli Kate weighs 18.8 pounds. Everything went well, all three are perfectly healthy, except Adrik had a broken right leg now.  We were sent to yet another specialist and this time I liked them so much better!  For starters, they wanted to see us immediately when I called to make an appointment.  The other doctor had us wait four days.  Although, we had to wait forever at the doctor's office (and with all three kids; since it was last minute we didn't have anybody to watch the girls) we did get some answers.  Thankfully, at this point, they don't think there is problem with his bone or metabolism.  Now, if we do start seeing more broken bones then we'll look into that.  We also have a pretty good idea of what happened in both incidences.  For the left leg (the first one he broke), we think it got stuck in our baby gate.  The doctor told us that there are two ways that this type of injury can happen an the first way is by pulling and twisting.  The second way is by impact, like something falling on top of the leg, and for the left leg, we think Tali fell on top of him.  They did go ahead and put a cast on his right leg and they let us know that the left leg is pretty much already healed.  He gets to keep the cast on for two weeks and he's actually doing really well with it.  Now that he's adjusted to walking with it, he seems to be getting around a lot better and he's not crying every time he falls with added support.  That's about all that happened this week, but it sure did leave us exhausted.