My poor baby girl is sick. She's been running a fever and coughing, is listless/has malaise, and appears to have a slight cough (could be leftovers from a runny nose type cold, but I dunno.) We gave her medicine and a cool/lukewarm bath last night to break a fever, but she ran high until around 5 AM this morning when she got out of bed in a delirium crying in the dark, and calling for "mama". My poor precious beanie! All she wants are bottles and to nurse. I'm all dried up and tired. We're exhausted at the house. This has been going on since roughly Thursday night, with relatively normal behavior during the day for the most part (maybe a little crankier than normal and more assertive/screechy when she wants soemthing, somewhat less interest in eating, but she did just finish a growth spurt during a nose cold.)

Top this new fun with my mom has pneumonia and I haven't called her all week and the fact that we just got our cat's bladder reconfigured again due to a really horrifying bladder infection/(now he's making bladder balls instead of crystals), and I've have a very expensive, sleepless, guilt ridden, miserable weekend. The only thing keeping me going is the PF, who is equally as disturbed and sleep deprived as me, even if he can't nurse the beanie into sleepy hot oblivion.

Weirdly, half the time, you'd never know she was sick. She has just been radiating heat with rosy cheeks and glassy eyes and not eating and listless at night, slightly coughing. Most of the day, she runs around like her normal self, wanting to play.

We seriously don't think it's a panic issue yet seeing as how she hasn't gone past 102 or 103 degrees F (which is really not that bad for a toddler according to the books), but every time I google "fever and cough and toddler" I get RSV and Pneumonia and The Flu. Which all of course scare the bejeezus outta me.

Anyway, PF just called me with an update. Looks like the fever has definitely broken and we are on the mend. Unless there is something going around that I should know about, and then definitely someone email me with news because I'm ready to go to the doctor any minute, but I would hate going all the way there only to be told there is nothing wrong (anymore.)

~Beanie's Worried, Sleepless Mom