Luke's First Visit to the Pediatrician

The visit was mostly non-eventful except that it took forever, which is unusual for our doctor. The visit took a long time because they had to do the newborn blood screen and the nurse that had to do it was none too happy about it. I guess the screen is supposed to be done in the hospital sometime after 48 hours from the baby's first feeding. Well, we weren't willing to stick around the hospital after I had been discharged for 9 hours for the blood screen so we left the hospital before it had been 48 hours for Luke. We didn't think it was a big deal because the hospital said that we could just have the pediatrian do the screen on our first visit as long as the visit was within a few days. Sounded good to me, so we left. The nurse at the peditrician's office had a really hard time getting enough blood to come out of the heel stick though. After she later consulted the office's nurse practitioner, who had previously worked at Riley Children's Hospital, they discovered that the nurse wasn't using a long enough lancet. Poor Luke had been pricked in the heel about 4 or 5 times by the time they discovered this. His heel was a little black and blue the next day from all the sticking, but he seems to have survived the ordeal.