First Cold At 5 Months....

Well the time has finally come...unfortunately. :( The time for Braden to get his first cold. BOO!! :( It was not like we were naive enough to think that with it being the dead of winter AND him being in daycare...that it was not a possibility. We knew it was but it still stinks big time. It has also been harder than I thought to care for him with a cold. Maybe one of the reasons is b.c I just hate to hear him coughing. Breaks my heart. :(

He got sick at some point late last week..and it has continued to get a little worse. Along with his coughing, he has been a little snot monster too. HA! :) And he got a little hoarse at one point. His cold also messed with his sleeping some more this month, as well as his eating. I don't think I expected the eating part to be affected so much. He went from transitioning from 5 feedings a day to 4 very quickly and easily....to now being back to 5. He just cannot seem to take those large feedings during this cold, and he needs to eat more frequently with less food. We quickly learned this when the projectile vomiting started a few days after the cold. The doc said that the mucus and the milk mixing together has been upsetting his stomach and causing the vomiting. Makes sense but not fun for us and Braden to be drenched multiple times per day. And I have never done so much laundry in my life!!! :(

The good news is that he has not had a fever or any other issues. His personality is just the same, and he does not seem to be affected by it at all!! I did take him to the doc twice this week just to have him checked out, and to make sure there was also not an ear infection, etc. He tested negative for RSV at one of those appts too, so we were very grateful for that! :)

So we have been using the humidifier and the saline drops..and the showers with Daddy in the morning really seem to be helping too! :) We are hoping that our little man is in tip top shape again VERY soon! :)