Scary Week

We're glad to see February gone. The month started with Fiona getting a cold that she couldn't shake; by the time we finally took her to the doctor she had fluid in her ears and we had to put her on decongestants. We had a week of healthy Fiona (during which time I wound up getting sick, naturally), and then the next bug hit.

Fiona stopped holding food down on Friday evening. On Saturday we took her to the doctor and were told to put her on lots of fluids until she could hold food down. Fiona did great on Pedialyte on Saturday, but starting Sunday she decided she'd had enough of fluids and stopped drinking much of anything. In our ignorance, we thought maybe her body was telling her not to drink right then, but when she wouldn't take any fluids on Monday we found ourselves with a dehydrated baby.

In order to get her back to health, we had to basically hold Fiona down on Monday while forcing a couple of teaspoons at a time down her throat with a dropper. All the while we were monitoring the coming snowstorm in the NY area, because we knew that if she didn't respond to the fluids we were going to have to take her to the pediatric ER.

Thankfully, the fluids did their trick. It took another couple of days for Fiona to build her strength back up (not eating for three days will sap an infant's energy), but this morning (for the first time since last Friday) she greeted me in her crib by standing up, and when I picked her up to take her to her room to get dressed she screamed bloody murder because I was taking her away from her toys. It's good to have the real Fiona back.