Poor Baby

Well, life has been busy here. I am essentially working full time now. I am working 32 hours a week, 16 at WnW and 16 at SH. But the good news is that the baby is only in daycare for 2 & ½ days a week.

I mentioned before about the sick kids in her class, and I knew it was only a matter of time until it hit her. Well, time was hit at 2:30am Sunday morning. She had been really congested sounding all week. Saturday night I gave her a bath, and I always steam up her bathroom when I do that so it’s warm. I had gotten a little carried away on the steaming, so it was like a fog bank rolled into her bathroom. It was hard to see her in the tub! (Okay that is a LITTLE exaggeration…) Anyway, I think that loosened up all the crud. That night after I put her to bed, I was listening to her on the monitor and I kept saying to Hubby “she doesn’t sound good.” She just started sounding like things were starting to shake loose. Sure enough, she woke us up at 2:30am with a cough that sounded awful. So, I got up with her and rocked her until 4am. I tried putting her back on her pillow once, but that didn’t work. At 4am, Hubby took her and we went downstairs. I slept on the couch and he slept in the recliner with her. As long as she is tummy to tummy with us on an inclined position, she can get enough drainage that she sleeps pretty well.

I have to laugh, when she woke us up that morning at 2:30am, Hubby and I just looked at each other completely dumbfounded. Neither of us had any clue what to do! She is just so young it’s not like we can run to Walgreen’s and get some decongestant and cough medicine for her! I said, ‘should I call the pediatrician?’ He said ‘not at 2:30am!’ So, we just winged it. I called our friends at 8am the next morning (or earlier, I am not sure, but I knew they would be up with 2 young kids also) and she gave me tips on what to do.

I had thankfully taken that day off from WnW as it was a BIG day for me. It was the Daytona 500!!! So, it worked out really well since I had been up since 2:30am. We all spent the day in our PJ’s. I would take her up to the bathroom and ‘steam her’ as we call it. Her appetite had really decreased, but her disposition was still really good. She would still smile at us.

Overnight was another story. We tried putting her on her pillow again. She was sound asleep tummy to tummy on Hubby, so we put her down. Within minutes she was coughing so hard she woke up and then started crying. Oh, and she has laryngitis so bad, it’s really sad sounding when she cries. So, he took her and slept in the recliner. We brought down another humidifier, so there are 2 running in our family room plus the one on our furnace. Our family room feels like a tropical rainforest! No need to worry about getting shocked in that room!

I had to get up at 3:30am as I got to be interview by the news again. The news contacted WnW about doing a story on dog safety in cars. I guess I have been delegated store spokesperson. So, they called me Friday and asked me to do the live spot on the morning news. So, I was at the store by 4:45am to set things up. I had 3 or 4 live spots on the news. Of course Bristol was with me and he was the star. There will also be a little blurb on the evening news as well. I love doing things like that. Dog safety is an important thing! And it gets WnW some free press. I was at the store until around 7am.

Once I got home the baby had just woken up and eaten her first bottle. Her appetite had really decreased and her disposition had changed. She was no longer the happy go lucky baby, she is now the ‘I feel like crud and I am going to tell you about it’ baby. So, we called the pediatrician’s office as soon as they opened, and we were in to see them at 11:30am. The doctor said it’s just a bad cold. (JUST a bad cold, try living with her!) He told us to keep doing everything we were doing and that’s all we could do. Hubby said to me after the doctor left ‘see, don’t you feel good knowing we were all ready doing all the right things?’ I said, ‘yes, but that’s because we are good parents!’ J

Anyway, her 3 bottles she has had so far today have been awful. She has only eaten 2 oz. each time and that is just not enough. I think I am going to go get some pedialite and see if we can’t get more fluid in her. She is finally napping in her swing, but about every 15 minutes she has a coughing fit. I feel so bad for her, I wish there was more we could do. I guess she isn’t going back to daycare for a little while. I want her to be REALLY close to being over this so we don’t just continue to pass it around! All though I am sure it will come around again anyway. But if I can prolong it any by keeping her out, well then so be it!

Well, I guess I better run to Walgreen’s!