My little sweet pea is just recovering from a three day fever.  Its her second fever in 3 weeks!  Poor baby!  At first we thought she was just doing her normal teething but the fever spiked up to 103.7.   I kept her home from daycare for a few days to be sure I kept a close eye on her, being that the last time she had a fever at daycare she ended up in the ER!  This is starting to worry me a little bit that the fevers are so high and becoming more frequent.  She had no other symptoms.  I know being in daycare she is exposed to germs and other sicklings but I didnt know it would be this bad!  Dont get me wrong, daycare has a lot of positive things as well, Hailey is very social and doesn’t just cling to “mommy”.  I am anxious to see when Abby is born in August and Hailey is at home, if she will still have these fevers.  

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Poor Baby Hailey!  She had a really rough weekend.  It all started this past Friday when she went to the doctor’s office Friday morning for some vaccine shots.  After the doctors, Jamie dropped her back off at school and we got a phone call an hour or so later saying Hailey had a fever.  At first we thought maybe it’s just a brief thing from the shots and the school gave her some tylenol to help bring the fever down.

A few hours later we got more calls and the fever was getting worse so Jamie rushed over and picked her up to bring her home.   We did the typical things you should do when a baby has a fever, we kept her cool by giving her a bath, which she hated - she normally loves her baths.  We tried putting damp wash cloths on her forehead or back to help cool her down but she’d jump as soon as they touched her skin and cry.  Poor baby was shivering with anything even slightly cold.  We managed to get her to a comfortable level before she went to bed Friday night.  She woke up feeling warm but not bad Saturday morning but now we had a new twist.

Something that was completely alien to Baby Hailey!  She wouldn’t eat!!  Jamie made her a nice breakfast with peaches and little orange slices and a muffin.  She ate some of the muffin but wouldn’t touch the fruit which was a sign right off the bat that something was wrong.  The rest of the day she wouldn’t eat a thing, she totally refused lunch and dinner.  Luckily though she drank lots of juice to keep her fluids up, I felt so sorry for her and wished I could just make it all go away.  She was miserable.  Her temperature at one point peaked at 104 degrees and we called the doctor for advice.  They told us to just keep doing what we were doing, that it was all a reaction to the shots and to increase her dose of Tylenol.

Sunday morning came around and we were blessed that the fever was finally gone - and unlike Saturday it stayed gone the whole day and night.  However Baby Hailey wasn’t totally back to normal just yet.  She refused to eat most of the day and what’s worse she refused to drink most of the day too.  She even turned down milk, which is not like her at all.  We took her outside for awhile to get some fresh air and eventually got her to eat half of a lunch we made for her which was great.  She still refused her juice but when she saw me drinking some fruit punch she wanted some from my glass.  After a few sips and she got the taste of it, I let her watch me poor my glass into her sippy cup and she went to town.  Later last night we got her to eat the rest of her lunch and drink a bottle of milk before she went to bed.  Still no fever but hopefully today her appetite will return - don’t want Baby Hailey to lose to much weight!!

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An afternoon i will never forget, March 18, 2008, my birthday and the day my heart froze with fear.

I received a phone from Baby Hailey’s school that i had better come right away….”her lips are blue, she is shaking and not breathing right” those words played over and over as though they were witten in stone across my soul.  The minute I saw her I knew we were in trouble, she was like a zombie and didnt even recognize me. For the first time in her life she was silent, and looked so helpless, she was breathing as though her lungs were shutting down, her little body shaking , her skin was ghost white and covered with goose bumps. Then it seemed like the world stopped…… i thought i was going to lose her and my heart was crumbling right before me.

At the emergency room , after waiting to see the doctor it was as though she tapped back to reality, the glazed look on her face was now fadding and her color was returning.  My spirit was  filled up with joy as she began her baby babbling!  My baby was back!  I could see the life returning in her eyes.  Her breathing was 90% better and her famous dimpled smile spread across her face!  Then the doctor arrived, her temp was 104 degrees.  They gave her antibiotics, tylenol and fluids.  The doctor says she had the flu? 

We followed up with the pediatrician the following day.  He says its just a cold because she had not had a fever since the incident??  I pray that they are right and it was not something more serious.  The nurse at the doctors thought it sounded like she had a type of baby seizure?

I am thankful she is back to her ornery self and back to making me laugh and not having a mini-stroke!  This is my girl, full of many suprises but she is coated with strength.

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