Iris's First Cold

Should we consider ourselves lucky to have gone this long, or does the consequence outweigh, that her immune system is now less likely to fend off an illness than another baby's who started this whole 'getting colds' thing months ago?

Two days after her 3rd day of "Mother's Day Out" (see Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes post), Iris came down with the sniffles. Waking up from a nap, she sniffled her nose and made a gurgily sound, followed shortly by a very productive sneeze. "Oh boy". But she managed a good humor and happily got up to play with her toys and continue sneezing.

It wasn't really until that night when we could hear her sleep that we got concerned. A cycle began with her breathing loudly through one available nostril, breathing nasally out of her mouth, then waking up to shift around and clear things out. Rinse and repeat.

We made some calls, acquired and administered some 'drugs', and called a night.

Sunday was not better- although she slept well the rest of the night, she skipped her afternoon despite how tired she was leading up to the time... Her demeanor was pleasant, but mummified. A sun-baked mummy, she was, for her temperature rose sharply. A sun-baked walking mummy, as she took a good percentage of her first steps today, too!

We made some calls, administered some 'drugs', and hoped for the best.

By bedtime her temperature had dropped off and she ate OK. She had a good night with little ado and woke up like a Spring Daisy this morning, all smiles and I could hear her laughing at Baggie as they went outside for the morning biscuits...

We got lucky this time, for all day today she's seemed much better, with no fever and basically no congestion. I'm sure we won't always be this lucky, but this is the kind of thing we're willing to take in small 'doses' (I kill myself!).

HAPPY 11th MONTH BIRTHDAY, LITTLE BEAR!!!