Under The 90+ Degree Weather

This picture says it all, Clare is darn cute, but clearly she isn’t feeling well.  Today was day three of her feeling less than 100% and frankly, we’re all tired of it.  Feeling under the weather when it's 90+ degrees outside is no fun.  Watching your baby fight a cold is tough, she clearly doesn’t know what will make her feel better, she walks around crying and coughing, it sucks!

Saturday she was drooling A LOT, we chalked it up to teething, thinking maybe she was FINALLY getting a tooth.  Well, she keeps drooling, her nose is running nonstop and her cough is getting worse all without a tooth.  Yesterday, while we were in the car she started coughing so hard she threw up, nothing like the smell of ‘used hot dogs’ in the car.  I felt so bad for her, she’s never really thrown up, I know how scary it is, and I hope she didn’t feel that way.  So, we did a parking lot clean up and stripped her down to her diaper for the ride home.  For the rest of the afternoon she seemed alright; she fought a nap but played fairly happily and ate a normal dinner, spicy black bean soup and strawberry Newton’s, until it was time for a bath and bed. 

For the second night in a row she fell asleep in my arms, she gets much more cuddly when she isn’t feeling well.  Selfishly I love it, but know it’s because she doesn’t feel well breaks my heart. She slept well until about 9:30 when she woke up coughing and crying.  Nothing seemed to calm her down, she was so miserable; it was awful.  She was coughing so hard she threw up again.  My first thought was how could I make her feel better, my second thought was how part of being a Mom is being thrown up on and not minding. 

After talking with Karen this morning I decided to call Dr. Dan and see if there was anything we could be doing for her or if maybe something more was wrong.  Thankfully Dr. Dan said she was just suffering from a cold and really sore throat.  He told us to expect a few more rough nights but things should be better in a few days. 

So, hopefully we’re on the mend and she’ll be back to her happy self in another day or two.  She’s asleep now, hopefully she won’t wake up crying or coughing tonight, we all miss her amazing sleeping habits.  

On a positive note she learned how to put her coins in the piggy bank this weekend, she loves to drop them in over and over.  She also said a few new words, she told Jeff that she had a ‘sock’ in her hand, and she pointed to the books on the shelf and said ‘book!’   She also clearly knows the words water, drink and cup.  She’s learning so much everyday!!!