Sick Chick

This last week Julia has been a sick little girl.  I have never had a baby get sick this young (@7.5 weeks old) and I have to say it is quite scary.  She has had a mean cold with a yucky nose, lots of coughing and even a fever.   I tend to not be a hypochondriac with my kids and definitely don’t over worry about their ailments but this one had me nervous – especially during the night.  Many times she was gasping for air, turning blue around the mouth and coughing so hard she would throw up.  yup, scary stuff.  I have gotten little to no sleep this week but I’m happy to say she is on the mend and is feeling much better after 7 full days/nights of the crud.  Since she is so tiny there was no medicine I could give her… I just prayed hard and cared for her around the clock.

Here is Julia at the doctor’s office last Thursday:

Here she is getting some loving from some borrowed grandparents… (Nancy’s grandmother-in-law and mother-in-law were visiting from Texas)

 

Here she is today feeling better (still has a cough though).

  I haven’t gotten a smile out of her in a week… it feels so good to see her grin again. Praise God!