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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What is an appropriate bed time for a 16 month old? Hailey used to go to bed at 7:00, but latley we have been letting her stay up to 9:00. It is nice because we get to spend more time with her. But when its time to finally put her to be she puts up a bigger fight and cries for much longer in her crib. In the morning i have to rub her back to wake her up, while normally she would already be awake playing. She also seems to be more cranky when i pick her up from  school, she is also teething so its hard to tell if its sleep or just agony from her teeth. Tonight brad put her down at her old bed time and she was asleep with out a big fuss. i miss the exta time with her playing and chasing her around the house, her little laugh is to die for! We’ll see if her mood is better when i pick her up tomorrow!

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Last night Baby Hailey just couldn’t sleep!  Jamie and I went up to peak in on her and she was still churning around at about 9:30.  Usually she’s out by then.  We got her up and changed her diaper then I tried to rock her back to sleep.  That didn’t last long as she started screaming again in agony!!

She kept grabbing at her mouth so we figured it was her teeth hurting, she’s got two coming in at the same time now which can’t feel good.  We gave her some teething tablets but they just didn’t seem to do it this time.  She kept grabbing and grabbing at her mouth, always on one particular side.  I peeked in while she was screaming at full throttle and noticed she has some teeth coming in where she was grabbing, so Jamie grabbed some baby orajel and put a little bit right on the spot of each incoming tooth.  Before you know it we had our bouncy, giggly Baby Hailey back!  She was so much fun we kept her up for about an hour before finally putting her back to bed.  Normally she’d complain, at least a little when going to bed.  But this time she was so exhausted and so releived she just grabbed her blanky and rolled over to dream land.

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