trip to the doc

akaiya has been congested for a couple of days and yesterday she threw up at school so we decided to take a trip to the doc. she is also doing this weird breathing thing. it's almost like she holds her breath, and then she gasps for air. she does it a lot when she wakes up, and as time passes she does it less and less. this morning it was scary because she was holding her breath for so long she started shaking, and then she was gasping for air. by the time we got to the doc she was her smiley goofy self, so i felt like an overprotective mama...but hey, i have that right :) so the doc checked kaiya out and basically said she sounded okay, just had a lil cold. she cleaned a whole ton of nasty orange/brown wax out of kaiya's ears which might be why the kiddo was rubbing her ears...she hasn't done it since they were cleaned so maybe the wax was tickling her or something. as the doc was checking kaiya's lungs she started talking about a heart murmur...kaiya has been to the cardiologist and we were told that she did not need to be followed, her heart is fine, so i didn't really ask questions of this doc. it wasn't our usual pediatrician so i was thinking that she was hearing lung noise and attributing it to kaiya's heart... the doc finished her exam and just told us to turn on the humidifier and keep suctioning kaiya and she should be fine. as i was getting us both bundled up the doc came back into the room and said, "she get's followed up by a cardiologist right?" and i told her no, and went into what the cardiologist told us when kaiya was young... and then i asked her if she thought we should be seeing a cardiologist and she said that it sounds like a small murmur, but she thinks we should see someone. so now we have an appointment to see a cardiologist in january. hopefully it's nothing...i would hate to think kaiya has a problem that we should have been treating all along :(