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Well, it’s happened. The thing that every mother dreads but knows is inevitable. Claire is going through her first cold – or, I should say, the cold is going through her.<\/p>\n
It started on the weekend. I think it was Saturday night that she sounded congested while drinking her bottle, and she was pretty cranky. It’s been downhill since then. Yesterday was worse than the day before, and today it’s worse than it was yesterday. Although she’s obviously pretty tired and rundown, her mood is pretty good, considering. She still plays with her toys, she still laughs. But her nose is running almost constantly (I am thankful that it’s at least running and therefore the crap is coming out of her, but I know it’s still not pleasant), and today she is not interested in any food at all. She normally has a piece of buttered toast cut up into small pieces for breakfast followed by a little bit of cereal with fruit mixed in. Like most kids, Claire LOVES toast. Except for today. She ate a few small pieces, then swept the rest to the floor. I understand – she’s congested and toast involves a little bit more chewing\/mashing up. So I decided to try her with just the cereal – she just needs to swallow that down. But after a few spoonfuls, she started trying to hit the spoon. She’s just not interested. I tried her with a bottle a couple of times, but of course, that’s not going over well because it’s just too hard for her to suck on the bottle with her nose all blocked up. She did drink a bunch of water this morning, so I tried putting some formula in a sippy cup, but she only drank a small amount and gave up.<\/p>\n
The only thing she ate were a bunch of those Gerber Graduates Puffs. She’ll eat that stuff any time. She may very well end up subsisting on those crackers for the next day or two. At least it’s something, and they are made with real fruit\/veggies.<\/p>\n
The plan is to have some of my homemade broccoli soup for lunch today. Again, it’s something easy for her to eat because it’s pureed and therefore does not involve any kind of chewing. But given how she reacted to the cereal, I’m not holding out for too much.<\/p>\n
I’ve been spraying a saline mist in her nose a couple of times and she screams bloody murder. She normally doesn’t mind the aspirator, but now she hates it. She doesn’t have a fever – yet – but I’m checking two or three times a day. I’m very happy we saw the sale on ear thermometers that time because it’s much faster than the armpit method.<\/p>\n
She’s coughing and much more restless at night. We heard her make a few whimpering sounds last night while we were sleeping, but thankfully she managed to put herself back to sleep. As it was, we ended up having to let her put herself back to sleep last night during the evening; she had fallen asleep while having her bottle, but only five minutes later she woke up screaming. She wasn’t screaming when we put her in her crib to let her fall asleep on her own, but she wasn’t happy either. But she wasn’t happy in my arms or Neal’s arms either.<\/p>\n
It is AWFUL. I have never felt more helpless in my life. I called my sister this morning to make sure I don’t need to worry about the lack of eating, and honestly, I was choking back tears at the beginning. Claire is a generally happy baby with a good appetite.<\/p>\n
The Update:<\/b> She did, in fact, eat all of the soup I gave to her at lunch, plus a couple of extra spoonfuls from my own bowl. She also drank 10 oz of her formula down, fairly quickly, when I put her down for a nap a few minutes ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Updated Well, it’s happened. The thing that every mother dreads but knows is inevitable. Claire is going through her first cold – or, I should say, the cold is going through her. It started on the weekend. I think it … Continue reading