I told you so

I might be small but I'm smart.

She is just small! I knew it. We had our visit with an endocrinologist yesterday. We waited for 1 1/2 hours to see this prestigious specialist and when he walked into the room and examined Marianna it was apparent to all of us that it was a complete waste of everyones time.
All the blood work came back normal and according to his "charts" she was not even considered abnormal. She was somewhere between the 5th and 10th percentile. That's the problem with those damn charts. They are subjective. Every doctor plots them differently, every nurse measures differently, scales vary...
As far as her not growing in 6 months he thinks it may have been a clerical mistake on the nurses part. I plan on looking into this and if this is true and I subjected Marianna to countless exams and blood test just because some nurse put a dot on the wrong line, then Glendale Pediatrics will feel my wrath. Another theory he offered was that she may have been too big to start with and she began to grow at a slower velocity to meet her genetic potential.
I am just so relieved that his suggestion was to "leave the kid alone". He suggested that we might want to do the tests again in 6 months just because hormone patterns change. That is not gonna happen. We are officially moving on from this year long ordeal and plan to just sit back and watch out beautiful little girl thrive.