Ashton's 2 week appointment

Ashton is growing and getting so big!! First off, I can not believe he is already two weeks old!! Wow!! Time is already flying!!
Here are his stats:

Height: 22 3/4 in (97th%)

Weight: 9 lbs 14 oz (75th%)

Head: 14 1/2 in (40th%)

Everything looked great. The only thing the pedi seemed concerned about what that he had a heart murmur. Of course I immediately started bawling and panicked that there was something wrong with my sweet baby boy. We went to the cardiologist the next day (thank goodness they were able to fit us in) and everything turned out to be okay!! This is how it was explained to me....

Newborn babies have small blood vessels to the lungs, this is because while they were in their mothers' uterus, there was very little blood flow to the lungs since babies do not breath prior to birth. This will cause the blood vessels to the lungs to be small (since blood flow causes blood vessels to grow). Once the child is born, blood flow increases tremendously to the lungs, this will cause blood to be turbulent as it crosses these relatively small blood vessels, this turbulence will produce a heart murmur. This disappears at about 2 months of age.

I am SOOO thankful my Baby Ashton is healthy!!!

Happy 2 Weeks Baby Ashton!!!