With Sickness Comes Sweet Cuddles

I'm sorry we've been a little MIA on our blog this week.  All of our spare time has been spent holding our sweet baby.  She woke up Tuesday morning drenched in sweat and had a fever of 101.6.  Since she still does not have teeth, so we just assumed it was the beginning of teething since anything around 102 is considered low-grade.

Valentine's Day night was rough.  She couldn't get comfortable to sleep on her own, started not wanting to eat very much, and still felt so hot.  We were alternating Motrin and Tylenol, which was working to reduce her fever to around 99 or 100.  This is a picture I snapped of Kyle and Emery that night.  Sleeping in that chair with Kyle was the only way that she would get restful sleep... so sweet.

 

Wednesday morning she still had a fever, but when she woke up from her morning nap it was 104.1.  She cried anytime we put her down, and had her head resting on our shoulders constantly. We immediately called the Pediatrician but since they were out to lunch we went straight to Urgent Care.  Here we are waiting for the doctor.

 

After a flu test came back negative, the doctor said most likely she caught some kind of viral infection and we just have to wait it out, hopefully only 7-10 days.  She slept on and off the rest of the day, drank a lot from her sippy cup, and that night we saw some adorable smiles during a 5 minute energy burst.  Oh man we love her so much.

 

Then the night came and once again she woke up drenched in sweat, and this time throwing up the little bit she had eaten for dinner.  After a bath at 5 am, she fell back asleep again on daddy for a couple hours.

 

We are so blessed to have a healthy baby girl 99% of the time, and so we are enjoying these sweet cuddles from Emery.  Hopefully in a couple days she'll be feeling much better, thank you for your prayers!