Cardiologist

We had a check-up with the cardiologist today.  The last time we went in a year ago Dr. Hoffman thought he could hear one of their valves still open.  He said it's a common thing for any kid to be born with it open and could have even happened with my other kids but I never knew because we weren't seeing so many specialists with them.  He wasn't at all worried about it and said he would give it until they were 5 for it to close on it's own or if it hadn't by then, he would consider doing surgery.  So today was our follow-up appointment.  He listened and thought everything sounded good but then wanted to do an echo on each of the girls to be sure.  The girls did really well.  They held still and watched a movie and ate a sucker.  It took the tech a while to get all the images he wanted.  After he was done Dr. Hoffman came back in and said everything looked great with both girls and the valves had closed on their own so we didn't need to come back for any other follow-up appointments.  It was so exciting and fun to get this news today.  The girls have been doing so well and this was our last specialist that we were seeing.  Now that we're done with him we only have appointments with our pediatrician.