China Trip @ Wednesday January 30, 2008 08:10 am by WunderKraut
We took the babies for their medical exam today. This is part of the paper work required for her U.S. Visa.
They weighed and measured her. She is a little over 16 pounds and about 29 inches long. But, we will believe that when she gets home and sees Dr. Evans.
The funniest thing was when they checked her ears. They got her focused on something in front then put a squeaky toy behind her to see if she would turn to the sound. Very scientific.
She checked out just fine and then I went to Li Ping’s room for 2 hours of stressful paper work. They will take our papers to the U.S. Consulate in the AM. If there are no problems, then we will go Friday afternoon to pick up her Visa. Then Saturday morning we begin the journey home!!!
Here are some pictures:
Jen and Debbie waiting to go
Outside the clinic
Being weighed
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Looks like our “peanut” is perfect as we all suspected. I am thrilled all went well.
Quick word of advice. Get a “Growth Chart” from the local clinic if they can provide one. You may notice that the “charts” in the USA were created from statistical samplings of American babies, which you may notice are taller, and heavier than the Mandarin speaking versions.
Otherwise, you will run into problems like we did, where the doctors want to probe, and poke around to find out why your kids are not making it on “our” charts. Our oldest never made the chart, even though he was born and raised here. But since his mother and myself are originally from India, we basically have an Indian child. So after importing charts from India, we found numbers we could work with.
BTW….Very beautiful baby, for a very beautiful moment in your life. Congrats.
-Tejash
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