as many of you know when i was pregnant they noticed something called 'pyelectasis' on my prenatal ultrasound. it is a collection of fluids in the renal pelvis (kidney). they monitored it closely while i was pregnant and it stayed present but his kidney continued to function fine - noted by the amount of amniotic fluid present (which is urine from the baby) since we was born he was put on a low dose of amoxicillin to help prevent a urine infection - which can be associated with the fluid in the kidney. we had to bring him in at 5 weeks of age for follow up. he had to have a kidney ultrasound - which showed the left kidney to still be enlarged with fluids. A VCUG - which checks for urine reflex (where the urine would back up from the bladder to the kidney - not good can cause an infection) NOT PRESENT! AMEN! he also had a lasix renogram - which monitored the function of the kidneys. this looked good too - his left kidney was still a bit sluggish but working great. we met w/ dr. shukla - the ped urologist who gave the okay to stop the amoxicillin (poor cooper he loved this stuff!) and he said then that he wanted him back at 6 months for a follow up ultrasound to monitor the status of the left kidney.
well 6 months has already come believe it or not! we went in last week and this time he only had to have the renal (kidney) ultrasound and we met w/ dr. shukla. the US still showed that he had fluid on the one kidney thought it wasn't worse. Dr. shukla was happy with it and wants to keep monitoring cooper so we'll go back when Cooper is a year old. Dr. S was also happy because cooper hasn't had any infections or illnesses since he was born. Cooper did wonderful and loved not having the catheter and IV placed this time. It was also fun for mom because he got to see all the people she works with!!!
Also Cooper was 18 lbs!!! we take him in on 8/13 for his 6 month check up!
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