As you can see in the title, it's been a busy few weeks for Addison. Her first tooth is cutting through on the bottom. She had a week of absolute fussiness and screaming in the middle of the night and the little bugger is slowly making its way through her gumes. She loves to chomp on anything and everything including our hands and if you've ever felt a tooth as its coming through, you know how sharp the little bugger's are. It hasn't pushed all the way through yet, about a 1/4 of the way, and we're pretty sure her other bottom toothnext to it is right behind it. We excitedly anticipate it's full arrival so we can see how cute she is with a little chomper.
In addition to the tooth excitement, at 27 weeks we've finally mastered the art of rolling over from front to back and back to front. She is quite proud of herself and always has a "wow, how did I end up on my tummy and the world looks totally different from this perspective" look on her face. For us, this means no more leaving her on the middle of the bed and running to get something. Surely this also means she's one step closer to crawling so we should probably get going on installing the little drawer and cabinet locks and put the gate up at the top of the stairs.
Lastly, we had a very frightening experience at the doctor this week. Addison has had a cough for a couple of weeks now and on Monday she spiked a fever of 103.5. She was breathing as though she had just been running so I called the doctor and they told me to bring her in asap. We went in and they checked her out, ears looked excellent, throat looked a bit red and swollen, temp went down a bit after I had gave her a quick dose of motrin but was still fevering and her chest sounded okay. The Dr. decided to do a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia and a nose swab to rule of influenza b. So, Addie and I went down to x-ray where they placed her in the strangest contraption called a pigostat. She was in just her diaper and they place her legs on what looks like a little bike seat and then have the parent (who at this point is getting nervous) hold her arms straight up above her head while they enclose her in this plastic case thing that keeps her still. All the while she is screaming at the top of her lungs, bright red and tears are rolling down her cheeks. Did I mention that the parent stands directly in front of her to hold her arms up thereby forcing them to stare right at her and be of no help at all. It was downright awful. Not realizing they wanted her to continue to scream to get a good x-ray, this mom was singing the ABC's to her and the three little fishies song until the nurses told her to stop because they wanted Addie to cry. AHHHHHHH!!! In the end, she was red in the face and had tear stained cheeks and I was red in the eyes and had tear stained cheeks. The happy part of this story is that she doesn't have pneumonia. I can only hope we never have to do that again! There was however no clear cut reason for her cough and fever so they gave her amoxicillan in the hopes to curb any upcoming ear infection. She is back at daycare today with no temp and feeling quite better!
In addition to the tooth excitement, at 27 weeks we've finally mastered the art of rolling over from front to back and back to front. She is quite proud of herself and always has a "wow, how did I end up on my tummy and the world looks totally different from this perspective" look on her face. For us, this means no more leaving her on the middle of the bed and running to get something. Surely this also means she's one step closer to crawling so we should probably get going on installing the little drawer and cabinet locks and put the gate up at the top of the stairs.
Lastly, we had a very frightening experience at the doctor this week. Addison has had a cough for a couple of weeks now and on Monday she spiked a fever of 103.5. She was breathing as though she had just been running so I called the doctor and they told me to bring her in asap. We went in and they checked her out, ears looked excellent, throat looked a bit red and swollen, temp went down a bit after I had gave her a quick dose of motrin but was still fevering and her chest sounded okay. The Dr. decided to do a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia and a nose swab to rule of influenza b. So, Addie and I went down to x-ray where they placed her in the strangest contraption called a pigostat. She was in just her diaper and they place her legs on what looks like a little bike seat and then have the parent (who at this point is getting nervous) hold her arms straight up above her head while they enclose her in this plastic case thing that keeps her still. All the while she is screaming at the top of her lungs, bright red and tears are rolling down her cheeks. Did I mention that the parent stands directly in front of her to hold her arms up thereby forcing them to stare right at her and be of no help at all. It was downright awful. Not realizing they wanted her to continue to scream to get a good x-ray, this mom was singing the ABC's to her and the three little fishies song until the nurses told her to stop because they wanted Addie to cry. AHHHHHHH!!! In the end, she was red in the face and had tear stained cheeks and I was red in the eyes and had tear stained cheeks. The happy part of this story is that she doesn't have pneumonia. I can only hope we never have to do that again! There was however no clear cut reason for her cough and fever so they gave her amoxicillan in the hopes to curb any upcoming ear infection. She is back at daycare today with no temp and feeling quite better!
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