Sick Baby

A couple of days ago Nolan's appetite wasn't what it usually is and each feeding for those couple of days was a pretty poor showing.  I chalked it up to teething because he has done this in the past but on Friday morning (2 a.m.) he woke up crying and in a major sweat.  He fell back to sleep easily that night but on Friday morning it was obvious something was wrong.  He was all sweaty again, raspy, and had a barking cough.  I made an appointment with the pediatrician just in case it got worse over the weekend and sure enough Nolan had a fever, spots on his throat, and croup.  

He was so sad on Friday.  He wouldn't play with his toys, all he wanted to do was curl up on the couch with me and watch his Baby Einstein safari video (so we watched it 4 times throughout the day).  His hoarse cough would make him so upset because of his sore throat that he was just sit up, look at me and cry, lay back down to cuddle and have his back rubbed, and repeat.  Luckily he was able to sleep through the night last night (just a few coughs here and there) but nothing that kept him, or us, awake and out of bed :)

Today he is doing better.  He is more interested in his toys and will crawl around and pull himself up on things like the Nolan we know.  He had a small fever this morning but nothing since.  Just really congested with a bad cough.  Hopefully he will be feeling much better tomorrow!

Why am I blogging about this sad turn of events?  Nolan has never been sick before.  I figured I should document it all, the good and the bad.  It took the little guy 9.5 months to come down with something but he made sure to get a few things at once.  Building up an immune system with one cold almost out of the way :)

Falling asleep watching his safari video...