Blog #5

Being a mommy is hard work.....



I love my baby so very much, and I just don't think we can handle anything else... at least not for a long time! He's been congested pretty much since we brought him home from the hospital. Being the crazy new mommy that I am, I have taken him to the doctor a hundred times. Then he developed a cough, and he has gone through two different antibiotics with NO CHANGE. I finally had enough night before last... well technically yesterday morning. He woke up at midnight coughing his head off and breathing really fast, and I decided to take him into the ER. The ER doctor ended up admitting him with the diagnosis of asthma and bronchitis, but the attending doctor that saw him once he got into a room said no. He said he has been sick too long for it to be bronchitis, and he said he's too little to diagnose asthma. He decided to have a pulmonologist take a look at him. She said that she thinks he has reflux, even though he has never been one to spit up. She said its more like an adult's reflux... where it comes up, but not out.... Make sense? She said that when it comes up, it is irritating his sinus cavity, and the inflamation is causing mucus production, and the mucus production is causing congestion, which is causing the cough. She changed his formula, and put him on Nasonex nose spray to help the inflamation in his nose and sinuses, and Prevacid to help stop the reflux. I pray that this helps!! There is nothing more pathetic than a sick baby!!


Jake and daddy in the emergency room at Cook's
Doesn't he look cute in his little gown?