Judecorp.

My kid has normal hips.

Tight leg. Uneven gluteal folds. Asymmetrical leg folds. But, "I don't know what it is, but it's not her hips."

Weird!

I am so upset about the hip thing. So freaking upset. And I am pissed at my kid's pediatrician.

Yesterday Jen called the pedi's office to ask about her refusing to nap, to see if the nurses/pedi had any suggestions for getting a sleep-resistent baby to sleep. Today they called back and said that Jen had questions about reflux. I said no, sleep. They said I would have to come in to talk to the doctor about it. For real? To ask a question about sleep? But I kind of wanted to grill her about the hip thing (she wasn't the one we saw last week, we saw the head of the practice whom I love), so whatever.

Basically I spent a $25 co-pay for her to tell me to get blackout shades for the baby's room. WhatEVER.

So, I asked her if she saw in the chart about the hip thing that the other doctor found. She said she did. I asked her why it wasn't noticed before. She said a lot of blah blah blah that basically said 'sometimes you don't notice things like this right away.' But of course in this case 'not right away' means 'five months' and is the different between a soft splint they put on little infants who sleep all day anyway and a body cast from the chest down to totally immobilize an older infant who is learning to sit up and crawl. And she Does. Not. Get. It.

She had the most blase tone when she said, "Yes, they do casting," and "Yes, it would be for several months." When I told her that I was flabbergasted that this could go undiagnosed for so long when my child has been in that office at LEAST 20 times (8 in a row when she came home from the hospital for the nursing/weight/jaundice issues, 2 for the mystery rash, at least 6 for reflux, the usual well-baby check-ups, 1 today, etc.), she had nothing to say except to tell me that if I was not comfortable with my medical care, I "have to do what I have to do."

I'm not going to lie, if my 5-month-old daughter goes from trying to get up on her hands and knees to being in a body cast having to be flipped every two hours to prevent bed sores, I am going to seriously lose it.