You had your first and second falls almost in the same day: first you were sleeping in the couch in the family room (like you do often) and I heard a loud thump – you fell on the floor and was a bit disoriented, but didn’t really cry. Then yesterday you were sitting on my lap looking at pictures in the computer and I still don’t know how but you fell from my lap on the floor, on your back. You cried quite a bit, you were so surprised!
Category: Booboos & Illness
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Sick September
This past month was the most difficult for you and for us. The first week of the month you started running a fever and we thought it was because of the MMR vaccine. The fever didn’t go away after 3 days and you were cranky, we took you to the doctor and he said you had a tonsil infection. A few days later, still not better, we took you back and this time it was an ear infection. We started giving you antibiotics. Still a week later you were not better and we took you back – another ear infection, new antibiotics. Now that we finish with the antibiotics you started running a fever again last Saturday and then again on Sunday – we took you to the doctor on Monday and they said the ears are fine and were not sure what is wrong this time. We think it’s teething, but we can’t see any teeth so far. It has been a month full of Tylenol, Motrin, 2 antibiotics and a lot of waking up at night and crying. We are all tired and cranky, hopefully your teeth will cut through soon and everything will be back to normal.
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MMR, you give me fever
At your 1 year appointment, you got your shots, including MMR. Seems that it (or one of the others) is giving you a fever. Wednesday, you had a 99.1 (+1) under your arm. Yesterday, you had 99.6, 100.1, 99.6 and today you had 100.8.
The nurses say its probably fine, but you feel SO much warmer today, so we don’t trust the reading we’re getting, so we’ll take you in to see the doctor.
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Bad Toy
Today you put the yellow play phone in your mouth (like you always do) but you bit down VERY hard and caused your gum/upper mouth to bleed. Mommy saw (I wasn’t home yet). I’m sure it wasn’t a pleasant site to see you bleeding from your mouth.
I don’t think this is what they meant when they coined the phrase: cutting teeth.
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A cold that won’t go away
I took you to the Pediatrician this morning because you have had a cold for a month. It’s a mild cold that come and goes, when we think you are back to normal your nose gets stuffy again. Since there are so many people around with pneumonia, we thought it would be better to check and make sure your lungs are clear. We saw a different doctor and you were very nice to her, smiling the whole time. She said you just have a common cold and that you probably have been catching different viruses one after the other. You were also weighed (but with your clothes on) – 16lbs!
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Your first cold
And we’re not talking about the weather, unfortunately. Your dad was sick a couple of weeks ago with a sore throat and cold symptons. Then last Monday I got sick. Your grandparents arrived from Brazil on Thursday and got sick too. Now you finally got sick too. So far you just have a runny nose and a cough that comes and goes but doesn’t seem to bother you. Let’s hope you don’t get as sick as we all got!