Adoption-Health issues in your adopted child

Regardless of where you adopted your child from or how old they are I think one of the most important things to do when you get them is to take them to the doctors. This is so important and I can not stress it enough, I don't care if you think the child looks healthy and the system says they're healthy there still be an underlying issue that was missed or just overlooked completely. With Ryker one of the things we've had checked a few times now is his hearing. While he was in foster care we were told he doesn't respond to his name, one of the reasons we were able to change it, and rarely made eye contact while being talked to. After telling the pediatrician these things he agreed we should do a hearing test and several other tests just to make sure he's ok. We didn't find anything, thank God, but I am beyond glad we took the time to check from the very beginning instead of waiting until an issue appeared. Another reason I highly suggest taking them to the doctor as soon as possible is for shots, we were given his records and the boy had never received a shot in his life so shots were needed. Even though the pediatrician said everything was fine, he also told us that he may have suffered from neglect because he was showing some of the signs the main one being failure to thrive so we needed to take action as soon as possible to get everything where it needs to be. Reversing the effects of neglect takes a long time and sometimes isn't even possible so hearing that was devastating, but I was glad we knew what we had to do as parents. I'm hoping with time all of his issues will get a little bit better, but either way I am beyond happy to have this little chunky monkey in my life and I couldn't imagine life without him. He literally is one of the best things to ever happen to me, despite how hard his transition has been and I can't wait to see what he does with life.