Our Journey Through Parenthood!: Sick Baby

Well, we knew the day would come eventually, but never thought our little guy would get sick within his first month at daycare! Last Tuesday morning Jack woke up coughing and had a really stuffy nose. I took him straight to the pediatrician because I know a coughing baby is nothing to mess around with! Turns out, little man has RSV, which is a respiratory virus. To us adults, it would just be a cold, but it is much worse for babies. The doctor told us that we needed to keep him out of daycare for at least a week and let him get lots of rest. Luckily, I have an amazing job that allows me to work from home, and a sleepy baby means that I had a lot of quiet time to get things done while he slept next to me. It has been a long week of little sleep at night (partially because I was listening to him breathe and also because he has been waking up congested and coughing). We ended up at St. Mary's on Thursday because his breathing was scaring me a bit. Turns out he was just extremely stopped up and once he got a breathing treatment he was fine. Little man smiled through the whole thing. He is the sweetest. He is definitely still feeling sick but getting better each day. His smile has not left him at all. I just can't wait for him to feel 100% again. It has to be so confusing to be sick as a baby and not understand what is happening.

Here are some pictures of our week.

Sleeping next to me on the couch while I got some work done on the day he was diagnosed.

Cuddly boy in the swing

Had to take him to work with me one of the days to get some things done. He slept in my lap for a few hours while I had a very productive afternoon of calls and emails.