Here’s a summary of our last several weeks. Maggie had her first ear infection just shy of her 4 month birthday. She handled it great. She didn’t even run a fever.
About a week later, we received an email from Maggie’s daycare informing us that a stomach virus had infiltrated the infant room and that several infants were home sick with vomiting and other unpleasant things. This was on a Thursday morning. I had the bright idea to keep her out of daycare for that Thurs. and Fri. in the hopes that she would be spared. Friday afternoon around 3, she began throwing up. It’s very odd seeing a little one do this – especially Maggie. She is always all smiles and very content and even with this illness, she was – most of the time – her normal self. After a few hours, the “other” unpleasantries also began. This made “dirty” diaper changes even more unpleasant. For some odd reason, I thought that I’d have some type of immunity to her illness so I wasn’t too worried about catching it – until Saturday afternoon when I was slammed with the virus. It was awful. I started feeling a little better early am on Monday – right about the time that Matt woke me up saying that he had now contracted it. Matt had by far the worst case of it. It literally wiped us out the entire week. I kept Maggie out of daycare that whole week on the advice of her doctor and the daycare. It spread through the entire infant room, the toddler room, and the 3’s room. It was so widespread that many of the caregivers were out sick. Every caregiver in the infant room except one and every baby in the infant room except one, came down with the virus. I was assured by the daycare director that other “entire” families had been slammed with the virus including his. Somehow, it didn’t make us feel better. Angus was once again spared from the human illness and did his best to help us recuperate by sleeping up against us instead of in his bed. No stranger to comfort is Angus.
Maggie also had her second round of boosters just about two weeks later. She received this round of shots from her friend Jay. Jay works at Dr. Laughlin and Dr. Moore’s office, and he and Maggie have hit it off big time. Jay was devastated to give Maggie her shots, but I assured him that she would forgive him. She was all smiles until he poked her, then she gave him this very perplexed look, took a deep breath, and literally screamed at the top of her little lungs. Poor Jay was having a real hard time with it. He has applied to several medical schools and wants to be a pediatrician so I politely reminded him that the shots would keep her healthy. He still seemed quite upset that Maggie was crying so hard, so I tried to calm her with her pacifier. This worked until we went to schedule her next appointment. She spit her pacifier out, and started screaming again just in case everyone in the waiting room didn’t hear her the first time. She calmed down on the car ride home and slept soundly for most of the afternoon. We’ve been really lucky as she
hasn’t run a fever with her boosters yet.
At her four month visit, she weighed 15 lbs and 8 ounces and was 24 ¼ inches long. She was holding her head up so well and taking 30 ounces of her formula so Dr. Laughlin told me to start her on rice cereal. He told me to cap her formula intake at 32 ounces per day and pump her full of cereal and veggies. So, we have. And she has enjoyed rice and oatmeal cereal, green beans, and is now learning to love squash. Each week, she gets to add a new food to her diet. I think next week, we may try carrots or peas. Although she can have fruit, we are holding back on this as we want her to like her veggies first.
0 comments:
Post a Comment