February 18, 2015

Sick babes.

A sick baby is a sad baby. They can't tell us what's hurting or what's wrong so we as parents, who have learned their daily behaviors, have to decide for ourselves if it's a sickness, teething, sleep regression, or just a wanting mommy/daddy trend.

Bug is currently fighting his second ear infection. The main "symptom" that prompted me to call the pediatrician was him going from sleeping 11 hour stretches at night, down to 1 hour stretches. That alone screamed something was wrong, I mean, we had just returned from Mexico but I can't give him credit for being THAT smart and thinking that if he didn't sleep well we wouldn't go away again, can I? Anyways, it wasn't until the night before his appointment that he developed a fever which made me glad that I made an appointment. His fever spiked up to 103.6 the morning after his ear infection diagnosis. He is now taking amoxicillin twice a day and we are hoping it clears the infection up quickly. The first ear infection lasted a month and took 3 rounds of antibiotics/probiotics to get rid of it, tubes are a conversation possibility if this ear infection gives him trouble. Ear infections suck and co sleeping has won for the last week and a half.

I just want my happy, smiley, goofy baby boy back! Oh, and my sleep sanity.