Let me tell you… having a cotton swab stuffed up your nose hurts… bad. Yes I now know this from experience… and to make matters worse I have seen it done to my 4 month old daughter. We both have a virus that just makes you run a fever. It comes and goes and as soon as you think you are doing better, it hits you harder. Seeing Kennedy tested for the flu, RSV, blood count, and a UTI was the most painful thing I have ever had to watch, but I am so greatful for the thourough examination by our pediatician. Acutally it was our pediatricians partner because our pediatrician just had a baby! (Congrats Dr. D and family!) After all of the tests were negative (for both of us) we came home with Tylenol for her and Motrin for me. The other odd symptom? Green poop (for her not me). I mean this girls poop is Crayola Green. They said this is proof of a virus in breast fed babies. We are hoping that we are now on the road to recovery. Kennedy hasn’t had tylenol since this morning and I am planning on returning to work tomorrow. I am a little concerned that Kennedy isn’t wanting to eat today, but she is smiling and even giggled once. I love my little girl so much and I can’t stand to see her sick.
I have a few thank yous I need to say here. A HUGE thank you to the Thompson family for finding a new Giraffee! We have started alternativing them so Kennedy will have a back up in case something happens to one of them. I am sure it wont take long for new giraffee to have a matching chewed horn (yes I looked it up… they aren’t antler they are horns.)
Also a huge than you to Mrs. Dottie for taking care of Kennedy and me yesterday. I couldn’t have done it without her and having someone go to the pediatrician with me was a HUGE help.
We did get some new Kennedy stats out of our trips to the doctors:
Weight: 12 lbs 6 oz 23rd percentile
Length: 23 1/4 inches 16th percentile
Head circumferance 15 3/4 inches 24th percentile
Kennedy enjoys:
- tutus
- Giraffee
- ugly newborn paci
- newborn size nipples on her bottles
- laughing at Deedee and Daddy
- talking, talking, talking
- sitting up like a big girl
- she DOES NOT like being held like a baby
- She LOVES the rattle her daddy bought her
- she can grab things with her hands (rattles, Giraffee, Mom’s glasses, etc)
- And biggest news yet…. as soon as she is well we can introduce cereal!
#1 by Ally at February 3rd, 2010
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i remember being scared of getting infected by H1N1 during the height of the pandemic. at least two of my classmates got infected by H1N1.
#2 by Berry Bodon at May 3rd, 2010
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At least a hundred persons in our city have been infected with the H1N1 virus. I was very scared to get infected with this disease during the pandemic*::