Carter's Liver

I took Carter to his gastroenterologist last week for what I hoped would be our last appointment.  I had taken Carter for blood work to assess how well his liver was functioning the week before.  Side Note: Anderson, who was not having any blood drawn and was just in a carrier next to me, cried through the whole appointment and Carter cried out once when the needle went in to take his blood.  This is pretty typical of their personalities at this point. Anderson is certainly a bit more high maintenance than his brother, but in his defense, Carter is the happiest, quietest baby I know, so the bar has been set pretty high.

So about the appointment: The doctor thought Carter's blood looked great.  His liver is functioning normally and his vitamin levels look great.  The doctor took him off a horrible orange vitamin and put him on the regular multi-vitamin that Anderson is getting and also took him off his liver medication.  Woohoo!  Now both boys get their multi-vitamin with iron once per day.  It is very nice to not have to keep all the medication straight anymore.  In the interest of an honest account of the boys growing up, I feel it's important to note that Carter had not actually been receiving that vitamin for several months.  He spit it up, it stained everything and Ty and I made an executive parental decision to just give him the multi-vitamin that Anderson received.  We also had taken him off the liver medication about a week before the appointment.  He needed more of it, and it was a really expensive medication because it needed to be compounded at a specialty pharmacy, and we figured the doctor would probably be taking him off of it the following week, so we just never refilled it.  So I feigned relief when the doctor said we could take him off the two medications he already had been taken off of.  Not exactly my proudest moment of parenting, but if that's the worst thing I do for him, we're doing really well.