Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Green Beans, Rice and Addie's first boyfriend
Addison has officially entered the world of fine eating. Well as fine as you can get from the pureed world. She has been eating rice cereal for about 2 weeks now and tonight was her first experience with vegetables. After a great debate on which veggie to start with, we settled on green beans. Not too sweet, not too tart. In the past we assumed the position that we would always taste everything we gave her to make sure it was not too obnoxiously disgusting. However, since she has entered this new world, we've decided that she's on her own. :-) We assume that Gerber has a fine record of providing nutrional meals to babies across the world and therefore we need not join her in her meal time quests.
Fortunately and unfortunately, the introduction of green beans was quite uneventful. She made one small scrunched up face and then continued to eat her first tablespoon of green beans in addition to her rice. We were really hoping for some amazingly funny faces but she actually seemed to like them. She'll get 2 more days of green beans before we move on to her next veggie.
On an exciting note, we found out today that our friends Grocho and Bob are expecting a little boy in early June. They had waited to find out the gender of the baby until Valentine's day and then sent out the cutest pic of her belly with a big heart drawn on it and "it's a boy" written in the middle. We're certain that Addie & Baby Boone will be instant boyfriend and girlfriend and can't wait to meet the little one. He'll surely be a bouncy, spitfire of a kid as a result of his genetics! :-)
Monday, February 9, 2009
103.6 degrees is very frightening
As you can guess by the title, Addie has had her first illness. She has been congested all week and not wanting to eat. On Sunday, I was changing her diaper and I happened to put my hand on her stomach and realized how hot her body was. We immediately took her temp and it was 102 degrees. Being the new parents we are, we paniced and immediately called the after hours nurse who instructed us to start tylenol and keep a close eye on her. We followed her instructions and took her temp about every four hours. We set alarms to wake up and do this and also give her the deliciously grape tylenol that she seems to love. She was such a trooper about getting her temp taken and even smiled and talked to us while we did this. All night long she fluctuated between 101-103 degrees so we decided to call the after hours nurse again around 3:30am and were instructed to give her infant motrin and push fluids. We did and this seem to be more effective as her temp dropped to 99.1 after a few hours. When we all woke up at 7am, it was back up to 102. We decided to call the Dr. and take her in. We were concerned 1st with her temp and 2nd with the fact that we could not get her to eat and therefore she had been lacking fluids for about 12 hours. If anyone has ever tried to "push" fluids into a 20 week old and been successful, I'd love to know your tricks!
So, we get to the Dr.'s office and are escorted into an exam room. I undress Addie and she immediately begins to wail. The nurse takes her temp which is now 102.6. She continues wailing for the next 20 minutes, yep 20 minutes, while we wait for the Dr to come examine her. What Dr makes you wait that long with a fevering and screaming 20 week old???? What's lovely about the experience is also the fact that the nurse who took her info asked the last time she had been given tylenol and I told her that we gave her motrin at 3:30am and the nurse said "no, no, no she can't have motrin if she's under 6 months". I replied that we had called their after hours nurse and this is what she had instructed us to do. Argghhh!!! They really all need to be on the same page!!
Fast forward to the Dr's arrival. She examines a still wailing Addie, shows me how to tell if she's dehydrated and settles on a diagnosis that she has an ear infection. She prescribes an antibiotic and we are on our not so merry way (Addie is still wailing and has started to moan) to the pharmacy. We get home and I administer the first dosage of the strawberry flavored magic medicine and Addie gives a preview into what feeding her fruits and veggies will be like. The rest of the day is spent holding her and attempting to get her to eat which she still refuses. Around 3pm her cheeks are apple red and she is moaning and unable to open her eyes. We take her temp again and it's up to 103.6. We immediately call the Dr and are told to put her in a lukewarm bath and call them back in 30 minutes after taking her temp again. Happily the bath works and she's down to 101.9. The bath works so well that she even eats 3 ounces of breastmilk and gives us a big gummy smile.
So, it's now 8:15pm and we've been battling this fever for 30 hours. Addie has had her 2nd dose of the antibiotic and she's sleeping on the bed next to me so we can keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't have an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin like I did as a baby.
We're hoping her fever continues to go down and she'll be back to her smiley self soon. This has been by far the scariest experience as new parents. Not knowing how to help her besides giving her tylenol and holding her and watching her moan and be incoherent was terrifying. I'm sure she'll have many other colds and illnesses as a result of her days at daycare (did I mention it only took 6 days of being at daycare for her to get sick!) and at least we'll know what to do to help her as much as we can.
Cheers,
Mic
So, we get to the Dr.'s office and are escorted into an exam room. I undress Addie and she immediately begins to wail. The nurse takes her temp which is now 102.6. She continues wailing for the next 20 minutes, yep 20 minutes, while we wait for the Dr to come examine her. What Dr makes you wait that long with a fevering and screaming 20 week old???? What's lovely about the experience is also the fact that the nurse who took her info asked the last time she had been given tylenol and I told her that we gave her motrin at 3:30am and the nurse said "no, no, no she can't have motrin if she's under 6 months". I replied that we had called their after hours nurse and this is what she had instructed us to do. Argghhh!!! They really all need to be on the same page!!
Fast forward to the Dr's arrival. She examines a still wailing Addie, shows me how to tell if she's dehydrated and settles on a diagnosis that she has an ear infection. She prescribes an antibiotic and we are on our not so merry way (Addie is still wailing and has started to moan) to the pharmacy. We get home and I administer the first dosage of the strawberry flavored magic medicine and Addie gives a preview into what feeding her fruits and veggies will be like. The rest of the day is spent holding her and attempting to get her to eat which she still refuses. Around 3pm her cheeks are apple red and she is moaning and unable to open her eyes. We take her temp again and it's up to 103.6. We immediately call the Dr and are told to put her in a lukewarm bath and call them back in 30 minutes after taking her temp again. Happily the bath works and she's down to 101.9. The bath works so well that she even eats 3 ounces of breastmilk and gives us a big gummy smile.
So, it's now 8:15pm and we've been battling this fever for 30 hours. Addie has had her 2nd dose of the antibiotic and she's sleeping on the bed next to me so we can keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't have an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin like I did as a baby.
We're hoping her fever continues to go down and she'll be back to her smiley self soon. This has been by far the scariest experience as new parents. Not knowing how to help her besides giving her tylenol and holding her and watching her moan and be incoherent was terrifying. I'm sure she'll have many other colds and illnesses as a result of her days at daycare (did I mention it only took 6 days of being at daycare for her to get sick!) and at least we'll know what to do to help her as much as we can.
Cheers,
Mic
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