Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Back Soon!

We're here. We're alive. We're fumbling through Fifth's disease. And people, it's ugly. Mary Louise topped out with a fever of 104.5 this afternoon but it has since come down (to normal actually) and she seems to be doing much better now (at 2am). Everett has a nasty cough and has had some trouble nursing - he nurses very very frequently for shorter periods - presumably because of his very irritated throat. David has had a few low fevers, coughs often and has a runny nose but is still playing and eating relatively well. Thankfully, a visit from Mommom coincided with our worst few days so far.

Fact: at the weigh in at the pedi office this morning, Mary Louise was 27 pounds and Everett was 17 pounds!

So, we are quarantined completely for about 2 weeks in an effort to keep our germs to ourselves - this can be very dangerous for a woman in early pregnancy and can (obviously) hit a young child very hard. I'll get a proper post out soon...right now, we're definitely in survival mode.

xo,
Heather

3 comments:

  1. Praying for you guys! Hollyn had fifth's. It's the pitts.

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  2. Praying the germs leave quickly and the kiddos feel better soon!

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  3. I am a new follower and love hearing about your littles and how you all make it work with love and grace :) you are an inspiration to me. I have 2 littles, my daughter sharon is 2 and 1/2yrs and my son John is 7 months. He is recovering from RSV, he was a full term baby, but I think his sissy brought him RSV as a present :) do you have any advice for making brething treatments go better? He cries and screams unless he is asleep. We have has sucess a couple time in his bouncer doing "blow by" but usually it is horrible. Any advice with a little who is mobile and hating to be contained, he is crawling and pulling up on furniture, so happy except when he is being tortured by a breathing treatment. Thanks for any pointers. Hope everyone gets better quickly, 5ths seeems to be going around. Ann. Annmariamidden at gmail dot com

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