I think she's getting better!!! The fever has broken and she's finally interested in food and toys again. Thanks for the warm thoughts, everybody. This was the scariest sick spell we've encountered yet.
We took her to the ped yesterday when she started vomiting (
) and he diagnosed an ear infection. (Ear infection --> vertigo --> vomiting. Who knew? Not me.) She doesn't pull her ears or chew her fingers or do any of the usual things kids do with ear infections, so it's hard for us to know when she has one.
He prescribed antibiotics immediately, so I started asking all sorts of questions about the effectiveness of antibiotics and the side effects and whether it's likely to be viral vs. bacterial and the benefits or harm of waiting a couple of days before giving them to her. He looked shell-shocked for a minute, then reluctantly admitted that yes, we could certainly wait a couple of days to see if her immune system could battle the infection on its own. "It's a newer way of doing things," he said. (I liked him, so I restrained myself from rolling my eyes and saying, "actually, it's an older way of doing things...")
Anyway, so far we haven't given her the abx (though DH insisted we fill the scrip just in case she gets worse in the middle of the night) and she's starting to perk up a lot and the fever has gone away -- so I think her little immune system was up to the challenge after all. Her poor mother, on the other hand, is totally fried.
That is hysterical! Olive doesn't have any words yet. I'm still a little scared about the moment she starts to talk!
Oh, and Kelly, a little boy! That's marvelous!! Congratulations. DH is starting to talk about trying for another little one -- I think he's nearly got me convinced. But AF hasn't come back yet (talk about a marvelous little side effect of extended breastfeeding!), so maybe we'll just stop trying not to get pregnant and see what happens...
And... exciting news of today... I got my new issue of Mothering a few days ago and the article on EC convinced me to start trying to use the potty with Olive. So today, when she woke up from her nap, I put her on the potty and -- whaddaya know? She peed! She was so proud of herself!!! There's one less diaper to wash today!!!
We took her to the ped yesterday when she started vomiting (
) and he diagnosed an ear infection. (Ear infection --> vertigo --> vomiting. Who knew? Not me.) She doesn't pull her ears or chew her fingers or do any of the usual things kids do with ear infections, so it's hard for us to know when she has one.He prescribed antibiotics immediately, so I started asking all sorts of questions about the effectiveness of antibiotics and the side effects and whether it's likely to be viral vs. bacterial and the benefits or harm of waiting a couple of days before giving them to her. He looked shell-shocked for a minute, then reluctantly admitted that yes, we could certainly wait a couple of days to see if her immune system could battle the infection on its own. "It's a newer way of doing things," he said. (I liked him, so I restrained myself from rolling my eyes and saying, "actually, it's an older way of doing things...")
Anyway, so far we haven't given her the abx (though DH insisted we fill the scrip just in case she gets worse in the middle of the night) and she's starting to perk up a lot and the fever has gone away -- so I think her little immune system was up to the challenge after all. Her poor mother, on the other hand, is totally fried.
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Originally Posted by Kelly1101
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"that's a cup" ... "wazzat?" "that's the dirty dishes mama has to wash" "wazzat?" "that's the Ninja cat" "wazzat?" "that's the cup" |
That is hysterical! Olive doesn't have any words yet. I'm still a little scared about the moment she starts to talk!Oh, and Kelly, a little boy! That's marvelous!! Congratulations. DH is starting to talk about trying for another little one -- I think he's nearly got me convinced. But AF hasn't come back yet (talk about a marvelous little side effect of extended breastfeeding!), so maybe we'll just stop trying not to get pregnant and see what happens...
And... exciting news of today... I got my new issue of Mothering a few days ago and the article on EC convinced me to start trying to use the potty with Olive. So today, when she woke up from her nap, I put her on the potty and -- whaddaya know? She peed! She was so proud of herself!!! There's one less diaper to wash today!!!
) The past two or three days she has started saying things that sound like words and are consistent, but I have no idea what they are? I remember reading or hearing something about early walker/late talker and vice versa, so I haven't been very concerned. I think it has to do with using a similar part of the brain for both talking and walking, so developmentally babies tend to do one or the other. And as far as walking goes - there is no crawling any more, Olivia can run now, it's crazy! She is so fast!
She definitely got some of the recalled stuff, for some reason I had the name brand despite generally buying generics.
). Also says nana (for eating/nursing and sometimes specifically for bananas)- I think part of the confusion there is because DH sometimes calls food numnums and calls nursing nana because that's what Raph called it.
