We are on day… (think: Wednesday night, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun, do the math)… day five of Daphne’s cold. She’s less “clear snot running down the nose” and more “hack, snorg, gack”. This has become our new work: snorgy. And if you’ve ever had a head cold, you know exactly what I mean. It’s frustrating, because she breaths better if she’s upright (duh!), and would sleep with me holding her in the glider the first two days of her cold, but now pitches a fit if I sit down with her in the glider when it’s bed/naptime. My butt doesn’t even have to touch the seatpan and she’s off. And, of course, with a baby cold, she starts crying, then she gets snorgier, then she starts coughing, then she starts doing that gasping coughing thing because she’s so worked up. (This occurs both quickly, and is something she normally doesn’t do. So I have little built in tolerance for it.)
I’m so thankful it took six months for her to get her first real cold; she at least as figured out mouth breathing. And I’m thankful she’s still nursing pretty much exclusively (outside of an apple slice here and a sweet potato fry there) so that she’s getting antibodies from me. But I’m not so thankful that now Jason and I are sick as well. Or that, apparently, baby colds can last two weeks. Two weeks?! TWO weeks?!!! I’m getting pretty crappy sleep here and it’s going to go on for two weeks?!?! And the two weeks when I have three days of teacher training, four days off, and four days of teacher training back to back? Bleh.
Fortunately, in the time between her waking up and trying to start putting her down to sleep, she’s generally pretty darn happy. She’s loving going for walks (in the stroller, due to the rain and not yet figuring out our full rain system in the backpack); I imagine the cold air is helping her breath better. She’s loving her baths (started splashing with her hands yesterday). She’s nursing like crazy (more medicine, please). And her diaper rash is improving. Now if only we can teach her to not compulsively rub her eyes when she’s tired and unswaddled!