Sick

Last weekend E was sick.  She woke up on Saturday seemingly fine and then half way through our day we heard it.  One lonely sick sounding worse is yet to come cough.  It sounded deep and painful.  It really didn’t bother E, but I prepared for the worse.  And worse came like a freight train through the living room.

Saturday night she was a snotty, coughing, low grade fever mess.  It was official that my baby was sick.  She went to bed after a thorough snot sucking and was up and crying two hours later.  When I went in to comfort her all she wanted was to snuggle.  My baby is not in any way shape or form a snuggler.  She enjoys being held with her arms free to grab at anything that strikes her fancy and when she’s done she’s squirming to be free.

I sat down in our rocker and she immediately rested her head on my shoulder, popped her right thumb in her mouth, and wrapped her left arm around me.  I was fully prepared to sleep in that chair comforting her all night.  Luckily for my neck I was able to place her back in her crib about an hour later.

Sunday morning she wasn’t any better.  In fact her low grade fever had upgraded itself to a full fever.  She wanted no parts of any toys or playing.  She didn’t want food {boob was still acceptable so I worried a little less}  All she wanted to do was be cuddled and held.  Both The Mister and I loved the extra cuddle time, but at the same time knew it was only because our little baby was sick.

We gave her a bonus bath with some vapor bath in it to help break up the mucus she had housed in her nose.  {For a little person she had a lot of snot}  She enjoyed the warm bath and fresh jammies, but as soon as she was dressed she just snuggled down until nap time. 

I felt so awful for her during nap time.  My little girl is a thumb sucker.  She is able to self sooth herself to sleep with the aide of her thumb.  However with a stuffed up nose and hacking cough she had a hard time calming down to sleep.  Exhaustion on top of being sick is not a good combination.

Between Tylenol, Motrin, baby vapor bath, baby vapor rub, the blue hospital snot sucker, saline solution, and a lot of stress on my part E is feeling better.  She no longer has a fever, the cough is almost non-existent, and she is more interested in grabbing my hair then cuddling with me now.  She had her nine month baby well visit yesterday and was cleared for her shots with no infections and a diagnosis of getting over a bad cold.

I am now officially against my baby being sick and I would prefer if it never happens again.  A mom can hope right?  Unfortunately I think that being E’s preferred tissue is catching up with me and I’m getting sick.  I might have to borrow her baby vapor rub, but I’ll pass on the snot sucker.