Last weekend we had noticed that Kai had a pretty runny nose and was starting to cough. We thought nothing of it until Sunday afternoon/night when his cough started getting worse. He wasn't running a fever, but his breathing was really raspy and labored when he was sleeping. We picked up some baby chest rub from Walgreen's, hoping that would help a little. By later on Sunday evening, his cough was sounding really bad. I was pretty sure he had croup. We let daycare know that he was going to the doctor in the morning and probably wouldn't be coming.
When we woke up Monday morning, his cough sounded painful! Tyson was able to get him in to see Dr. Smith right after they opened at 9:00am. It wasn't croup, but just a really bad cold. Ugh. That means nothing but time was going to cure this.
Tyson and Kai spent the rest of the day at home. We used the humidifier constantly, applied baby chest rub at every diaper change, propped up his crib mattress, and offered more water than usual.
I decided on Monday night that I wanted Kai to stay home another day, just to relax and get in some good naps before heading back to daycare. Tyson couldn't take another day off and we have an extreme shortage of substitute teachers right now, so I asked my dad to come and spend the day with Kai. Of course Papa was willing to come!
Now, a week later, Kai still has a little bit of a cough and a stuffy and/or runny nose, but he is definitely sounding better than he was a week ago!
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