Getting the "Turner" Diagnosis

From day one Brooke has always been super tiny. She weighed around three pounds when she was born, but other than that she was completely healthy. She had no major issues to our knowledge and we couldn't be happier. However, every single time we would take her to the doctors for any kind of appointment we would be asked why she was so small and we never had a good answer. I just normally said it was because she has small parents-with dad being a little over five foot and mom being around 4 foot 11 it seemed legit to me. The pediatrician however was never pleased with that, she had failure to thrive and I was again-fine with that explanation of her height and weight. When she was around two years old the doctor informed me that failure to thrive doesn't effect toddlers-I was 19 so for all I knew he was 100% correct-he wanted to do more tests. At first, I wasn't pleased with this idea but after being accused of child abuse and neglect I felt it was 100% necessary to get to the bottom of all of this. No one wants to see their kids get poked with tons of needles, but I knew it had to be done. After I don't even know how many tests I was told my daughter had Turner Syndrome. That was pretty much all I was told as they handed me packet of information and I went on my way. I wish I knew then what I know now, that not getting this diagnosis would change our lives so much. I am so glad that pediatrician spoke up and kept after me until I caved and got her tested. Despite how much I hated feeling like a failure for not noticing, I know there is no way you would know these things until you live through it. So thank you to our pediatrician, you may have saved my child's life.