Intermittent Exotropia

Our baby girl is 2½ now!!!  Well she's been 2½ for almost a week now but was waiting until her 30 month well baby visit to write a post about it.  She weighs 31½ pounds fully clothed on the doctor's scale, 30 pounds if you prefer to rely on the Wii Fit while wearing pajamas.  She is 36½ inches tall.  She's extremely healthy, eats most of her veggies and all fruits that grow under the sun.  She is TONS of fun, I really can't express how awesome and entertaining she is.  I love being her mommy, especially at those moments when she tells me that I'm her best friend or when she wraps her arms around me and says, "I love you too, Mommy!"  She is a lot of fun to be with most of the time but there are also those very trying moments, especially now that she has started telling me what she doesn't want to do.

While at the doctor I finally thought to mention something to her pediatrician that I have never thought to mention before.  You see, ever since I can remember (definitely as early as 3 months) when Y wakes up she sometimes has a lazy eye.  Now I never mentioned it to the doctor because I always thought it was typically something that babies experienced and that she would eventually grow out of it.  Well I realized a few weeks ago that she hadn't just "grown out of it" and decided that I would talk to her pediatrician about it, just to make sure it wasn't something I should be concerned about.  Upon describing it to him he immediately told us that we should definitely go and get it checked out.  He referred to a name for it but it was medical speak and I didn't really catch it.  So last night after dinner I sat down to do some research (I couldn't imagine being a parent without the internet) and I found that it is called Intermittent Exotropia.  It's "intermittent" because it doesn't happen 100% of the time, in fact the only time it seems to happen is when she wakes in the morning.  We have scheduled an appointment for her to see a Pediatric Ophthalmologist at DMC Children's Hospital in May.  We're not overly worried at this point, mostly because it's not something that happens all the time.  But the doctor expressed concerned that as she gets older it could worsen and it's often easier to correct at a younger age than it is as they grow older, the muscles can become more stubborn I suppose.  Best case scenario it will be something that can be "fixed" through Vision Therapy.  Worst case scenario means surgery but for many reasons this isn't an option for me at this point.  Mainly because she is so young and because it's not really a severe case.  I should also mention that there are a few options which fall between the best and worst case scenarios but if you read the information at the link above you can find more on the other options.

As of now we're staying positive and not worrying too much about it!