ear infection

4/20/22

his behavior in bed changing; i think his teeth coming through are hurting him. he’ll wake up crying and crawling, whining. then just when i think he’s really awake and up for the day, he’ll plop his head down in whatever position he’s in and just instantly fall asleep, on his belly usually.

4/22/22

noticed my hair hasn’t been falling out as much lately, but there is more white now as it’s growing back in.

you can see tops of both his bottom teeth, they’re almost out. he’s been biting down sometimes when he first latches on to breastfeed; really hurts cause they’re sharp.

he got ear infection; he was acting in pain and got a cough the night before, so took him to doc who diagnosed it yesterday. prescrbed him amoxicillin, but im gonna wait 2-3 days to see if it gets better first bc he actually is acting more normal today and last night he didn’t wake up in pain like he did the night before (just ate a lot more than usual). it’s really stressful to go to the doctor, even with another person with me- he usually cries the whole time and yesterday I could hardly hear the doctor’s instructions, and the doctor could hardly hear me.

4/23/22

10 am – he’s s down for a nap and im holding him against my chest and he’s sleeping and his hand is in my hair and i thought, “please, just don’t cough like that again- you can pull all my hair from the root until i’m bald, just don’t cough like that again.” (he has this cough since yesterday, i guess from the ear infection, that sounds so bad, like it hurts and all congested and mucusy and too sharp for a baby’s lungs. every time he does it it breaks my heart)

hunter was being so cute tonight even tho he’s really sick w an ear infection (and subsequent cough and runny nose). we were in bed i thought going to sleep, but after he ate for like ten minutes, he broke away and was just like, “dada.” then he wouldn’t stop saying dada so i texted R who was in the living room (I think he actually heard hunter before he saw my my text and so came) Then the two were conversing together for like 15 minutes straight with Hunter saying nothing but “dada ” in different intonations and accents and stresses, and r just imitating him, it was so funny. Then rodrigo left finally, and I fed him one last time, and he got really sleepy by the end, it was maybe like another 10-15 minute feeding, and when he pulled away, all he said was this really cute, soft “mama” one time, and fell back asleep.