The First Doctor's Appointment

We went this morning for our first doctor's appointment with our pediatrician, Dr. Roberts. They covered the basics today. She weighs 8 pounds, 4 ounces - up almost a pound in a week. Apparently this is good as a newborn. She measured 20 3/4 inches, but I don't think that was very accurate because I didn't do a good job holding her in place when the nurse stretched her leg out, so I am thinking that the 3/4 height gain may be more like 1/4 or 1/2 inch instead.
Because of the season, we were advised not to go out too much to places with lots of people. She said that there was a stomach virus that was pretty bad in the community and the obvious cold and flu bugs going around. Before we left we were sent over to the lab at the hospital to have more blood work done. Apparently she had an elevated thyroid level in the NICU, and Dr. Roberts wanted to test her right away in case there was something to be made of it in order to start treatment immediately. Other than that she is in great health. We go back in April for the first round of immunizations. We were advised to bring Infant Tylenol because she would be really cranky following. I'm NOT looking forward to this.