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Yep, both at age of 1...routine.

Our state requires a blood draw/test for lead at 12 months. So, yes to the title (has had blood drawn), no to the content (not at a well-visit)

Yes within hours of birth for some tests. I felt so bad for her!! I don't think she's had any since then.

Yes. DS1 they tested iron and lead level routinely at a year. He also had peanut allergy test at age 2.

DS2 had lead levels checked at 12m because even though not standard practice at our current pediatrician, we lived in an old house

Yes at 1 year for lead and hemoglobin/iron levels. His iron was low at the first check so had to re-draw a month later and luckily passed the 2nd one!
*It took almost a full minute each time to fill a vial from his arm. Poor little guy!

Yes, at 2 he had one to check his iron levels. Our ped said it had just become a new standard that usually happens at age 1. He had to have another iron check at age 3 to make sure his iron levels were back up (they were low at 2 years old).

He did great both times! I was shocked that he actually sat still. At 2 years old he didn't cry but he did at 3 once they were all done.

Not for regular well checks, but they both had heel pricks for jaundice in their first week. DD also had a health scare around 4 months and had to have blood taken several times in a weekend. It was a little traumatic for both of us because the first time the phlebotomist was awful and couldn't get in her veins. The next couple times she had blood work they were vey quick and efficient, but she was scared to death because of what happened the first time!

LO1 had to have a blood draw for allergy testing at 16 months.

LO2 had to have multiple heel pricks for jaundice.

Routine test for anemia and lead at 9 months old, maybe we got an earlier one because our house is old? She also tested him, using the same blood draw, for a genetic condition (whose name I forget) which causes favism (allergy to fava beans), because I have s family history of it and it occurs commonly in those with Mediterranean/Mid-Eastern descent. He didn't have it!

@Foodnerd81: it was really horrible! So much worse than a vaccine jab. Poor babies. I'm glad it's behind us.

Both boys had many foot pricks as newborns because they both were jaundice. Both have had full blown blood draws to check lead and iron levels. My DS1 had his blood drawn twice after one to check his thyroid too. I hated it every time.

DD and DS have both had their blood drawn at their 1-year well baby visit.

The 3 full blood draws he's had were not related to well-checks. I didn't realize that was a thing. Most of my friends' children have never had a blood draw.

Yes. It's standard, in Portland, to have lead levels checked at 1 year. We went ahead and checked her iron then too. We're rechecking iron, b12, and vit d at 2 years old.

we've never had them at the pediatrician, but routine for us with his specialist (on basically the same schedule as the pediatrician) and it is effing miserable. It's the most tramatic and awful experience ever and it ruins our day every time. C is almost 22 months

DS did at the hospital quite a few times after birth (poor kid), then they pricked him to test for iron deficiency and something else. But that happened before he was 1. He's 2.5 now and no draws since then!