Friday I picked Adelynn up after work and she was pretty congested, and had gunky eyes- poor baby. she never fussed, still her smiley self, but she just could not breath. we gave her a nice warm bath, bottle, and put her to bed. we turned on her humidifier for the first time hoping it would help. NORMALLY she sleeps through the night, but joey heard her over the monitor kinda choking so he got up to check on her. then he woke me up cause he said he felt like her breathing was really shallow- i agreed. normally you can see her chest rise/fall and hear her breathing clearly. so we called a 24 hours nurse line and chatted with them for a while, they suggested we call an ambulance and get her to the ER. we decided to jump in the car and take her ourselves, we made it in RECORD time. thankfully they weren't busy we we went right back to a room and waited on the doctor. she saw the doctor on call along with a respiratory doctor. they both said she was definitley congested, but it was something we just needed to let it run its course. they said she was probably choking on mucus. poor baby! so 4 hours later we finally headed home, it was just turning day light and we all crawled back in to bed at 6:45am and slept till about 10. we were WIPED out. but worth it, we'd much rather be safe than sorry.
they told us to keep an eye on it, and try to keep her nose as clear as possible, suctioning out everything we can.
when we got up later Saturday, she seemed a lot better. So we decided to keep our plans and head out to Marietta to see EE. We had an awesome time :) .... until later that evening. she started screaming and crying like never before, and nothing we were doing was calming her down. i got so upset that i started crying! it was breaking my heart seeing her like that, cause when we say she never cries...SHE.NEVER.CRIES. and usually i can figure out what the problem is and calm her down- nothing was working. thank god joey was calm, he told me to leave the room and calm down lol...so i walked outside called my SIL and just cried! i know that sounds so silly, but it was breaking my heart. i walk back inside and shes calm and quiet, joey just looks at me and says "shes fine babe. and you're NOT a bad mommy!" i kept saying over and over "i feel like the worst mommy right now cause i cant make her feel better!"
i think (looking back) she got over stimulated from being passed around all day and being outside all afternoon. i think between shots on thursday, being sick, ER on friday night, being passed around/outside saturday... this little girl had just had enough! i dont blame her!
Today we were planning on going to Brittany's college graduation, and i feel like the worst friend ever but i made the call to stay home. i felt like adelynn just needed a very CHILL day, and i didnt want to leave her. we stayed home all day long-- we did leave for about 2 hours for our weekly family dinner- but we didn't stay long, pretty much ate and ran! i didnt want her getting over stimulated again so we just made it quick and headed home.
i'm hoping tonight goes okay- she didn't finish her last bottle of the night so i'm wondering if that means night feeding tonight, we'll see. CRAZY weekend.
Speaking of the doctor- at exactly 10 weeks old she weighed 12 ibs 2 oz and 24 inches, she is consistently gaining 2 ibs and 2 inches between each doctor's visit! growing girl! the doctor said shes perfect and kept commenting on what a good baby she was. the nurse said the same thing and kept telling me how pretty she is! i mean, i of course agree ;) but it was cool hearing it from strangers- made me feel very proud!
it was so sad when they gave her the shots (one in each leg!) she cried, the type of cry where it was so hard no sound was coming out! i hugged and kissed on her for a bit and she calmed down, she was asleep in her car seat before i even checked out! she is amazing.
i love her so much. i can't say it enough. i just hope my baby girl feels better soon. and i hope this week FLIES so we can enjoy next weekend with her!
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