Sami the Seal

As a Mom, if there's one thing that I've learned is that when your baby is hurting, it hurts your heart to know that they aren't feeling well. You would do anything to make them feel better and make the hurt go away. Zoey has been sick for about 2 and a half weeks. It first started as a cough that happened every once in a while, then one morning she woke up and was watching Cat in the Hat on t.v. like she does every morning when she's waking up, and she started coughing every 5 mins. I decided that was enough of that and took her to the Dr. to get checked out. He said that it was just Croup and couldn't give her everything for it because she was so young. Great! Not exactly what you want to hear as a Mom when someone says they can;t help your baby girl feeling better. He said that it would have to run its course and would get better after 10 days. So about 5 days later she wakes up and she is all congested and can't breathe through her nose and sounds worse and of course the cough is still there. I decide to take her back to the Dr. to get her checked out again. This time her 6 month birthday was just 2 days away and he said she could take Dimetapp for the cough and congestion and it should get better in time. Also that if she started wheezing or running a fever to come back in. Zoey has always had a temperature of about 97 degrees and that is normal for her. That was on Monday and by Thursday Ryan noticed that Zoey had some wheezing in her chest. Not what you really want to hear. The Dr. was already closed for the day so on Friday morning I took her in to the Dr. again, for the 3rd time now. He listened to her and she sounded horrible with wheezing in her right side of her chest. She was also burning up and running a temperature of 99.7. My baby was just getting worse and I just wanted her to get feeling better. I was then given 3 prescriptions for her and a new friend that's coming to live at our house for the next year.  One was an antibiotic, and the other 2 were for her breathing treatments that we are now having to do every day for the next year. Sami the Seal is the name of her breathing machine because its in the shape of a seal. I don't care what you call it, kids don't like the thing! We have to give her a breathing treatment twice a day for the next year and then every time she is wheezing and congested every 2 to 4 hours. Try getting a 6 month old baby to sit still for 10 mins. every time for a treatment, not any easy task!!! It has taken both Ryan and I both to accomplish this task each time. Ryan holds her and her breathing machine to her mouth and I sing and dance and distract her from getting upset and moving the mask away. It has not been a fun task and we've only being doing it, for 2 days. Being so congested has made Zoey not able to eat her bottle, yet has no problem with her baby food. This weekend it has been so bad, that we've had to give her pedialyte to drink so she is still getting some liquids in her, especially since she has been running a fever all weekend. The only good thing about her not feeling well has been that she has been very cuddly and letting us hold her and not want to get down and go everywhere.