baby #1

i saw my very first newborn patient last wed at the clinic. he is now 1 month old, grew 6 cms longer and gained 1.4 kilos. mom says he's always hungry and is usually well-behaved.

it is at times like these that makes all the things i went through in med school all worth it. it is also what made me decide to go into pediatrics besides the fact that i like kids. it is a different high when you see the joy on the parents' faces when you send home a child after a well baby check-up or after getting well. of course that is not always the case and that is the painful side of being a kids' doctor. but as i have always said, we are not gods with powers to give life. we can only do what is humanly possible and leave everything else to the One above who is the most powerful.