Val is doing better. we're doing the breathing treatments & steroids thru the end of the week, but he seems to be on the mend!
i hate watching him not being able to get his breath. i don't know that there's much scarier than watching your child struggle to breathe. my little brother had terrible asthma as a child, & the nebulizer brings back all kinds of awful memories of R being rushed to the hospital not able to breathe bc his airways just closed up. sigh... all i can do is hope that we aren't headed the same route, & be thankful that our little dude is breathing easier.
in other news, we got our proofs from the boys photo shoot this morning!! they came out soooooo cute :) we're placing an order ASAP so we can get our prints in time for christmas presents for the granparents. (our photographer is a one woman operation & does everything old school, 35mil film, by hand, so it takes a while, but they come out absolutely amazing-- well worth the wait!) i'll post pics when i get a chance. :)
at the doc's office this morning, they basically put the fear of God in me about getting the H1N1 shot for the boys now.... i think i'll have to stake out some clinics next week in hopes of getting it for them. with N coming into contact with so much of the public, & val having breathing issues, they pretty much told me to do whatever i could to get it for them, since they have no idea when they'll have it at the pedi's office 9the county public health dept is in charge of distributing, & if you ask me, they're doing a really crap job.) where we live they're even rationing the seasonal vaccine (which thankfully the boys DO qualify for, so we're getting it nov.14, the earliest they offer it.) this just sucks. apparently the only reason i was able to get it is bc pregnant women are considered super high risk, so they got the vaccines out to the hospital OBs. i just wish i could find it for my guys. we've had enough sicky scares the past couple weeks to last this flu season.
Glad to hear your little man is doing much better. Let's hope that he gets even better by the end of the week.
ReplyDeleteAs for the "baby boot camp". It kind of depends on what kind of sleep training you are comfortable with. Ours consists largely of letting the boys cry it out. My littlest man sleeps like an angel and he usually only wakes if there is a problem (teething, sick, wet jammies due to full diaper...). But my older son can wake for no reason and wants for us to come in and help him back to sleep. There is usually never anything else wrong since his cry is more of a temper tantrum if we don't go in. If we enter their room, he expects us to pick him up and we cannot put him back down until he is fully asleep. Doing anything else just causes more crying. So, it's much easier to not go in at all and just let him cry. Usually it doesn't last for more than 5 minutes and he's back to sleep. However, after they've been sick and we've been going in to them, it takes us 2-3 nights to get them back on track. Those nights involve more crying than 5 minutes. And that's why I call it baby boot camp. They are always smiley little boys in the morning even after nights when they had to cry it out. We all need good night's sleep around here and that is what works for us...
Good luck!
I hope they get the vaccine! you'd think it would be easy for them since they are in the high risk category. I know, i've been putting off getting it for my daughter.
ReplyDeleteUGH! When I was at the pulmy I was asking about the flu shot h1n1 or seasonal. She was pretty upset that they didn't have it yet. This is a clinic that handles 80%+ of the preemies in this area. You know the high risk babies. As soon as it comes in C has his name on it. I have to agree I have had enough of the sickies.
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