A Sick Punkin'

We are 34 weeks!!

Riley has been fighting a cough for about 3 weeks. I called the advice nurse a few weeks back and she advised that we raise one side of her mattress (check), use a humidifier (check), give her saline if there is congestion (check) and call if the cough gets worse....check!! Thursday night Joe and I were up all night with a sick baby girl. She was coughing all night and her cough had become "wet". Friday morning I went to work and left Joe a note to let me know how she was doing when he got her up. He called me and said that we should probably bring her in. We just didn't want it to get worse over the weekend and end up in the ER.

So Friday afternoon we headed to the doctor, only to find out that she has croup. Basically a wet cough. So, Riley now gets 2 nebulizer treatments a day (one in the morning and one at night). She handles it pretty well. We find that it works best to give it to her after she eats and while she is just sitting in her highchair enjoying some "stars" (her finger foods that she feeds herself). We are getting the hang of it, although it is not fun. Last night she was really not feeling well and was running a fever. We couldn't put her down without her getting really upset. She just wanted to be held and just hugged us.....so sweet!! I knew she was REALLY not feeling when she freaked out during bath time. Today was a better day, but she is still coughing pretty badly. Hopefully it doesn't last too much longer. It is just hard to know that something is bothering her but she can't tell us what it is.

Neb. treatments

Still smiling

However, she did start out happy yesterday morning. We went to Eggspectations for breakfast and she sat in a highchair for the first time. She loved it and felt so grown up!!

All grown up!!

She had a number of visitors too. On Friday night Aunt Kerry and UNCLE Brian stopped by. She loved visiting with them and hearing all about their honeymoon. Then on Sunday Tommy and Tara stopped by and loved on her all afternoon. Although, since was was not 100% she kinda napped a lot. But when she was awake, she was really happy to be with them.

I added a few photos for your viewing pleasure!! Enjoy!!

Sleeping Beauty

Crazy hair after bath time!