Happy New Year

Jayson and I spent our New Years Eve at home with two sick little boys. Connor had actually been fighting a cold for a month which ended up with an ear infection,and three trips to the doctor and three different antibiotics later, he finally started feeling like himself New Years Day. Then Luke got the crud on Wednesday before New Years, with the awful cough, congestion, runny nose, and decreased appetite. I took him into the doctor on Wednesday, and she said his chest and ears looked good, but not much I could do, except for him to sleep with a humidifier and spray saline solution in his nose and suction it out. I have become quite the pro with that little suction! Friday night was rough with Luke. Jayson and I took turns sleeping in the recliner with him to keep him up so he could breathe, and waking him up every 3 hours to make him eat something. So we cooked us some fish New Years Eve night and had a glass of wine, but we were asleep by 10:00, thinking we were going to have another night like the one before. We put Luke in his bouncer chair to sleep and I woke up around 3:00 needing to pump and realized that Luke had just slept 6 hours. Man did that feel good, but I was worried about him getting dehydrated, that I woke him up to feed and he ate a little, but really had no interest. So I put him back down and he slept another 6 hours before  I woke up again and realized how long he slept without eating.

As of last night, I think he is starting to feel better, he is not congested anymore, but still has that awful cough with all the mucus in his chest. Today was the first day he actually woke up on his own wanting to eat and the first time I have been able to nurse him since last Wednesday. I choose to feed him out of a bottle while he was so congested and so I could see how much he was eating. We are going back to the doctor tomorrow just to check out his lungs to make sure everything is ok.  Sorry no pics in this post, will update soon with Luke's 6 weeks post.