Things seemed a lot worse these past 10 days especially. He had a very snotty nose to begin. His symptoms escalated with an off and on low grade fever along with extreme fussiness. Poor little guy. You could see he was full of cold with red around his eyes and nose. It was so sad to see him unhappy for that long.
Even the Spongebob balloon didn't bring about any smiles. His symptoms have developed extremely slowly so it was hard to tell that it was actually a cold in the beginning. We thought maybe it was just general fussiness.
He seems to slowly be on the mend as of a couple of days ago now. We started seeing some smiles again. They make me melt! He was finally able to sleep more than 4 hours in a row and not waking up bothered with his nose as much. He's still left with a bit of a sore throat, a hoarse voice and some nasty coughing fits, especially when he goes from lying flat to sitting up. I was a little paranoid about the cough since there's this whole epidemic on whooping cough but the doctor has assured me that his cough is due to the tail end of the cold and more so due to the post nasal drip, as is the sore throat.
We saw his pediatrician earlier today just to double check. Alex now weighs a whopping 12 lbs. My baby is getting so big!
We have one more day officially left to bond with Alex 24/7 and then Matt begins his new job on Thursday. I get one more week until I go back too. I'm really looking forward it actually. As sad as it sounds, I miss work and just the daily interactions I have even if it is just over the telephone. It will be interesting. Hopefully Alex will be a good boy and let Mommy work. I have lots of people pitching in with looking after him so apart from those nursing breaks, I should be up and running right away.
It's been pretty hot here so we've been trying to spend more time outdoors this week. Alex is going through the phase where he loves looking around at everything. Right now he's really into trees when he's in his stroller.
