It started off with Lilly the first week of February. She missed an entire week of day care because her fever kept coming back. We went to the doctor twice, confirming our suspiscions it was viral. The second trip she had an ear infection, but we were going to wait before treating it with antibiotics. By the end of the weekend, she seemed pretty much back to normal, so no antibiotic. The week following, she seemed pretty good and then crashed again the following Saturday. A trip to urgent care on Sunday happened and a prescription for amoxicillinfilled and delivered, about 24 hours and Lilly was back to normal.
So tired at dinner she couldn't even keep her head up!
Then it was Greta's turn, not wanting to be left out, got herself an ear infection and you know how that turned out.
The weekend after the hives adventure, Lilly woke up on Saturday not feeling well. Not awful, just kind of meh. Sunday she claimed to be well enough to go to the aquarium in Duluth and a boring grown up errand to the Menards in Superior. About two miles before Menards, she turned into Mt St Helens. Huge vomit, which in attempts to stop, she put her hands over her mouth, causing some to shoot upwards hitting her eyebrows. Two fortunate things during this: we had extra clothes packed for Lilly in case she got wet playing with the boats at the Aquarium and Greta slept through most of the puking and clean up.
We're not sure if it was an actual stomach bug, or if she wasn't feeling well and it was motion sickness that caused the vomit but she only puked the once and seemed to be in decent spirits, just really tired and worn out. We kept her home on Monday just in case. She did go with Nick to work and hung out in his office while he taught from 11-1. A student played with her and Nick checked in on her while his students worked on a review packet. (Side note, we did pick out new ceiling fans, not the pink one with jeweled lampshades that Lilly really wanted, however.)
All seemed well, we went to Eau Claire for the weekend but Saturday night it started up again. True to their style, it was Greta's turn. Saturday night she woke up, coughing and just pretty miserable. All of us were sleeping in one room, Lilly woke up to say, "It's okay Greta, it's okay," and then went back to sleep (unfortunately to have two or three bad dreams that night too).
Sunday it was hard to tell if Greta was really sick or not, or just a bit of a cold. Then she got a fever. When Greta awakes with a fever in the middle of the night, she is hyper. It is like she is on caffeine and just cannot stop moving. Nick was up with her for a few hours until she wore herself out. I stayed home on Monday. She has a bad cough, an incredibly runny nose, and is drooling (this is unrelated to illness but her molars appear to be coming in). Tuesday it seemed like she had turned the corner. She was fever free all day and just was coughing a bit and had the runny nose. Tuesday night while I was feeding her, she stopped to have a coughing fit, which resulted in her vomiting all over me, the chair, the pillow, the floor. We still thought maybe she could go to day care, the puke was a result of a coughing fit. But then at 12:45 she woke up and had a fever again. Nick took the hyper stage and then I fed her and she fell asleep quickly, going to sleep from about 3:30-8:30. I stayed home for a third day (and next week is spring break, so I will work two days this week and then have all of next week off!).
Greta and I did go and see the doctor Wednesday and she has bronchiolitis. No day care for her the rest of the week. We need to watch her fever and keep her hydrated. If she stops eating/drinking or fever persists we bring her back, which could end up needing a chest X-Ray. Here is hoping it doesn't get to that.
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We're not sure if it was an actual stomach bug, or if she wasn't feeling well and it was motion sickness that caused the vomit but she only puked the once and seemed to be in decent spirits, just really tired and worn out. We kept her home on Monday just in case. She did go with Nick to work and hung out in his office while he taught from 11-1. A student played with her and Nick checked in on her while his students worked on a review packet. (Side note, we did pick out new ceiling fans, not the pink one with jeweled lampshades that Lilly really wanted, however.)
All seemed well, we went to Eau Claire for the weekend but Saturday night it started up again. True to their style, it was Greta's turn. Saturday night she woke up, coughing and just pretty miserable. All of us were sleeping in one room, Lilly woke up to say, "It's okay Greta, it's okay," and then went back to sleep (unfortunately to have two or three bad dreams that night too).
Sunday it was hard to tell if Greta was really sick or not, or just a bit of a cold. Then she got a fever. When Greta awakes with a fever in the middle of the night, she is hyper. It is like she is on caffeine and just cannot stop moving. Nick was up with her for a few hours until she wore herself out. I stayed home on Monday. She has a bad cough, an incredibly runny nose, and is drooling (this is unrelated to illness but her molars appear to be coming in). Tuesday it seemed like she had turned the corner. She was fever free all day and just was coughing a bit and had the runny nose. Tuesday night while I was feeding her, she stopped to have a coughing fit, which resulted in her vomiting all over me, the chair, the pillow, the floor. We still thought maybe she could go to day care, the puke was a result of a coughing fit. But then at 12:45 she woke up and had a fever again. Nick took the hyper stage and then I fed her and she fell asleep quickly, going to sleep from about 3:30-8:30. I stayed home for a third day (and next week is spring break, so I will work two days this week and then have all of next week off!).
Greta and I did go and see the doctor Wednesday and she has bronchiolitis. No day care for her the rest of the week. We need to watch her fever and keep her hydrated. If she stops eating/drinking or fever persists we bring her back, which could end up needing a chest X-Ray. Here is hoping it doesn't get to that.
The afternoon resulted in her cough puking her lunch, then cough puking after nursing. No nap happened, just the perfectly timed morning nap. Bedtime was another cough projectile vomit feeding. We decided to try a bottle so she was more upright eating, which was a fail attempt number one but after lots of screaming and a walk outside, more fussing, bouncing on the exercise ball, attempt number two was successful. She slept very restlessly in Nick's arms for over an hour. She woke up at 11:30, I fed her, no vomiting! And the biggest blessing of all, she slept from 12:30-7 in her crib!
Today was Nick's day with her, my students were glad to have me back. She had a pretty decent day but didn't eat much of anything, including a bottle. Here is hoping exhaustion trumps hunger and she sleeps a long stretch again tonight!
Ugh!!! No fun at all!!!! Hopefully all will be well again soon! And luckily neither your nor Nick have caught a bug to go with the girls...and hopefully you won't.
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