What a TERRIBLE night! Jonathan was up with, what we now know to be, croup! We were up from 12-3:30am and again around 6am-on. I managed to get a cold-mist humidifier going around 3:30 (yes, kudos for me for functioning at that hour!). We snuggled a lot; he seemed to do well sitting upright, but that only lasted so long for me. Then I built a nest on his floor, and we rough-ed it...well, I certainly did. He talked about his whole family and how they were sleeping, he sang his version of the ABCs, etc. Around 3:30, he popped up, walked over to his crib, and turned back to me. I put him in and he fell right asleep. Then I snuck back into bed until he woke up again around the time Dave was getting ready for work.
I got him an appointment with the pediatrician for 2, which was her first appt for the day. Then we took a walk to the grocery store, to get some cold air and Vicks. Basically, croup is an inflamation of the airways. not much you can do about it but wait it out. The ped gave him an rx for prednesoline for 3-5 days, depending on how he reacts.
I sent a note to the local moms that we've seen in the last week or so to notify them (not sure what the protocols are for that!?), and I learned that 1) croup is super common, 2) there's often a 7-day cold that follows it, 3) because croup depleates the immune system.
Dave awesomely (is that a word?) brought home dinner and fed and bathed Jonathan, and he cleaned up J's mess. I've tried chicken broth/soup with him in a sippy cup, but he was not interested. I had some eucalypus oil, so I put that in his room. Just poured it into his bath and set up the Vicks vapors along with the humidifier. We'll see how tonight goes. [yawn]
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