Pssst… I am going to tell you some very important hints to help your kid pass his 9 month checkup. You will be tested on whether your baby plays pattycake. If you don’t play pattycake with your child and he doesn’t know what the hell your doctor is doing, you’ve failed. If you speak to your baby in the same hoots and vowels he uses and neglect to constantly repeat “mamamamamaaaaa” until he gets it and can do it back to you this is known as an “epic fail”. If he’s not crawling around like a madman, but yet pulls himself up (even though crawling isn’t a milestone for kids because not all babies do it), then it’s a fail.
Oh yeah… and the slight heart murmur which will be re-examined on April 2, is also a bit of a stressful part of the exam. At least we didn’t have any shots today.
