Our first sick day! (or week....)

Kayden has had his first sick visit at the doctor's office this week! Poor baby was soo pitiful! On Sunday we started out fine! We went to church like normal and then went over to Nick's parents house. He took a nap, and when he woke up I tried giving him some green beans. He didn't really eat them and kept acting like he was choking on them. It was kinda odd, but it was just the second day of him having green beans so I thought maybe he just didn't like them. So I decided we would just stop and try a bottle. He drank about 2 ounces of a bottle and then didn't want anymore.

Then, about an hour after his bottle he vomited. It wasn't his normal spit up, it just kept.coming.out! Luckily, we didn't have church that night so we brought him home and I took his temperature. It was 100.7 so we gave him a half a dose of tylenol and put him to bed, where he then vomited again. Around 3 a.m. he woke up, vomited again and I took his temp which was up to 102. I gave him some more tylenol and both of us tried to get some sleep.

On Monday, we called the doctor because he vomited once again. We took him to the sick side :( She decided that it was a viral infection that she couldn't do anything about. She wanted us to let his fever run it's course during the day, not giving any tylenol until night time. We went home and he slept all day long. He would wake up every now and then and take about 2 ounces and go straight back to sleep. He was so pitiful and looked miserable. At around 6:30 his temperature hit 103 and I gave him tylenol. Once the tylenol set in, he was a happy camper. I thought that he had finally gotten over it and was on the up and up.

Kayden really didnt sleep well monday night/tuesday morning, but didn't really get sick again. Tuesday morning around 6, he vomited again and then had diarrhea. The diarrhea was a new symptom so I started getting a little worried about dehydration since he also wasn't eating well. However, his fever had broken for good and hadn't had a fever since we gave him the tylenol the night before. Throughout the day he still had diarrhea but no more vomiting, and he wouldn't have it every time he ate so that was also good. That night was rough though. He would sleep for 2 hours and then just wake up screaming. He didn't have a fever so I didn't want to give him tylenol but it was obvious he still wasn't feeling well and he still wasn't eating very well. He also started coughing a dry cough which made me nervous. We went in and out of sleep with only getting maybe 2 hours of solid sleep that night. Around 4 wednesday morning I emailed our pediatrician about his new symptoms and she wanted me to call and make an appointment when they opened. She felt more comfortable seeing him again and making sure everything was alright rather than not seeing him and something really be wrong.

We went in wednesday morning and they weighed him again. Monday he was 15.1 pounds and Wednesday he had dropped to 14.11. :( We talked about his new symptoms and she said that they seem to be pretty common with other kids she has seen but she wanted to check his ears, throat, and lungs again just to make sure, but they were all fine. She gave us some instructions to give him some pedialyte and gave us samples of some probiotics to help the lining in his stomach. He was suppose to have his 6 month check up on Friday, but we decided to reschedule that as to make sure he was well for his shots.

So here we are. He's still coughing but seems to be in better spirits. Hopefully we are on the up and up for good this time! It was so hard to see my poor baby not feeling well! At one point I remember hoping that he would end up with an ear infection or something like that to where they could give him medicine and he would get better quickly rather than it just dragging on and on!! But, I'm glad we have a doctor that doesn't just give an antibiotic for every little thing and only gives it to them if she really thinks they need it.