First Fever

Yesterday morning we experienced another first with our sweet girl...but this was a first that I was not looking forward to...her first fever.

It all started around 9:30 when I decided to take Sarah for a walk over to my parent's house. She is so happy and smiley in the mornings and I wanted them to see that since they were both off. Plus I wanted to see if Mom wanted to go walking with us.

We got over there and Poppy loved on her and mom and I hung out with her for a bit. When she started to get a little fussy and show signs of being tired we loaded her up for our walk.

We got back about 30 minutes later and I noticed she felt a little warm when I took her out of her stroller. I chalked it up to being out in the sun for a bit and decided I would check again when we cooled off.

About 20 minutes later Mom was holding her and told me she thought she felt warm. Ugh Oh! I went home and got the thermometer and sure enough she had a low grade fever. She also slept the whole time we were taking our walk (which is not unusual) but fell right back to sleep on Mom after waking up when we got home (that is unusual for her to take two naps back to back like that. I called nurse line to find out what to watch for. She told me to give her Tylenol every 6 hours and watch her temp to make sure it didn't get up to 100.4, if it did we needed to take her to the clinic in Lubbock that is open on the weekends. Sarah was also congested so she told us to take her in the bathroom with the shower running to help with her breathing.

She pretty much slept off and on all morning and into the afternoon. I kept taking her temperature and it was always drastically different (even when we did it back to back) so I no longer trusted my thermometer. Because of that and the fact that it was Friday I decided to go ahead and take her to see the Nurse Practitioner that is on call on Friday afternoons for Sarah's doctor.

When we got to the doctor's office you could tell the Tylenol had kicked in because she was so happy and smiley and did not fuss and even smiled and cooed while the doctor was checking her. However, when she checked her ears everything changed...she freaked. Sure enough she had an ear infection in her right ear. Poor Baby. We left with a prescription for antibiotics in hand.

We went and got a new thermometer (the old fashioned kind that goes under her arm) and headed home. She was pretty content and happy throughout the evening and slept on and off.

I was up with her for part of the night due to congestion and her becoming an expert at breaking out of her swaddle but we managed. :-) At 4am I took her temp and it was normal so that was a relief. And as far as we know she has not had any fever all day! Praise God!

So that was our first fever experience. I am glad we got that out of the way and it was very mild!

Believing for complete healing for our girl and that these ear infections do not become a regular thing for her in Jesus' Name!