Another trick...

Now this one she just started doing so she is not very good but baby steps, remember baby steps.

Can't keep the girl down for long...

Despite her being sick and still having a hard time breathing, that doesn't keep this girl from learning new tricks. So here's for Grandma and Grandpa so you can see her one of her tricks. Hope everyone else enjoys too.

Fever Finally Broke!

Delilah's fever finally broke for good I'm hoping. She had been down to 99 in am and then spiking again in the afternoons to 100.8. Well this morning she finally stayed down in the normal range and only spiked to 99.0 once! Yeah! I was also finally able to suction her only every four hours right before her treatments. Now the lungs/breathing has a long way to go. She still wheezes all the time. She is still coughing a lot and she still has an occasional crackle in the bases of her lungs which worries me that those haven't improved but the Dr said that it could take almost a month for her lungs to recover and she will always be really sensitive from here on out. She is still really clingy and wants to be close to me all the time.

I am starting to finally feel slightly better. I can actually breathe again through one of my nostrils. The headaches are getting better. Jarrod came home today with the full blown thing too. He can't breathe through his nose at all. Luckily both his and mine is all just in our head not in our lungs. I had spoken with my manager and she didn't want me to work until all my symptoms were gone since RSV is so contagious and so bad to give to the babies, so I think it is good that I already had the weekend off. By Monday I better be ready to go back to work or I am going to go completely stir crazy. I don't know how mom's do it, no being able to go anywhere. I can't risk taking her anywhere and get other people sick so we have been finding things to do here and man I am running out of ideas.

Silliness

We decided that since her treatments wake her up at night that we were going to try to wait until she woke up, and then Jarrod would do last nights treatments. We didn't hold to the every four hours but we figured since she was sleeping she must be okay. So wait until she wakes up. Would you believe it the little girl slept from 8:30pm to 7 this morning. Ah ya aye. So technically I guess tonight will be my shift that means she will wake up every four hours, right?

Need to vent...

So as you can read from the previous post, Delilah is sick with RSV leading to bronchiolitis, and possibly the start of pneumonia, with an ear infection to top it all off. So she gets antibiotics once a day. Then one nebulizer is twice a day and then one every four hours. The frustrating part is the nebulizers don't help with the wheezing much. Since she has an ear infection, and a possibility of the start of pneumonia, we can't risk suppressing her immune system with steroids. However, we discovered that even though she is wheezing and sometimes working really hard to breath she can maintain her oxygen saturation, so the nebulizers are doing something. So I got up with her every four hours and then today she wanted to nurse every two hours, needed suction every two hours on top of all the other stuff. So low an behold what did I wake up with this morning, yep a huge headache, sore throat and runny nose. Imagine that, I am around a very contagious baby and then lack of sleep, yeah RSV! It has made today a very difficult day. I am exhausted, feel horrible, and to make matters worse I have to see and hear just a very sick baby. She struggles so hard sometimes to breathe and cry. She hates her treatments. She HATES having her nose suctioned. I just really do not know how other parents find the strength to get through times like these. Absolutely nothing is getting done around the house, and I admit that some of that is because I sleep or I relax playing Mario Kart but if I didn't do those I think someone would be checking me into the loony bin right now. I guess the good news is that I can't work right now. With me having RSV, probably, I can't risk going in a nd taking care of sick babies. But instead I am not getting a break from a sick cranky baby who doesn't feel good and every time she cries it breaks my heart a little to hear how pathetic and weak she is. If any one has suggestions on how to cope please let me know.

RSV and ear infection

Yep, that's right. Delilah has RSV. She also has an ear infection. She started wheezing really bad. She gets to stay out of the hospital for now. We have to do treatments every four hours. She is on antibiotics for the ear infection. She is pretty miserable. I am being very precise as I need to get going but wanted to update the grandparents here. So she is doing okay. She is still breastfeeding enough that they are not worried about dehydration yet but we shall see. So any questiosn feel free to call.

Love to you all and stay healthy!

Frustration

Okay, so I know I really am lucky. I have a beautiful, healthy baby girl, who is happy, and growing and so adorable. But oh I am so frustrated with her sleeping! Anyone who know me knows that I do not do well on little sleep. I really like a good solid eight hours, or beware. So this not sleeping thing is getting old.

Ten days ago we finally set our foot down, no more nursing from 8 pm until 5:30 am. She is a big girl and should be able to go 9.5 hrs without needing to nurse. So we set our foot down, and it started to work, she slept a good part of the night, well then she got a slight GI bug and was throwing up, got a little dehydrated so OK she can nurse during the night. Okay then she got over the GI bug, no more nursing at night again. We held strong. Monday night she slept through the night. Tuesday night she slept through the night. Wednesday night she cried out twice but put herself back to sleep without us needing to do anything. Well then Thursday night she cried out, was coughing, and needed to be consoled but no feeding. Well Friday morning she woke up coughing and by afternoon she was running a fever. Yep the girl is sick and since the fever is there, they say the push fluids so if she wakes up I guess she can nurse. So yep this am at 4:30 she wakes up and wants to nurse after a not so restful night. Oh my what am I going to do with this girl. Will we ever make head way with no nursing at night?

Future Alumni

Okay, so I graduated from South Dakota State University, The mascot if the Jackrabbit. Here is the picture for Great-Grandpa.