Tuesday, February 24, 2009

micah gave me a scare last night. she had a cold and a cough, and her breathing started to be affected. her chest was retracting just the tiniest bit, and her abdomen and chest looked like rowan's did when he had epiglottitis last year. normally when you breathe, your chest rises and falls. when you're having trouble getting air in, though, with every breath the abdomen protrudes and the chest retracts in an effort to suck more air into the lungs. that's what micah was doing last night, in her sleep. she had a runny nose the past couple of days, and started coughing last night, but right before bed i really noticed her wheezing, and josh pointed out that her chest and abdomen looked funny. needless to say, this made me panic, and i sat up watching and listening to her breath for a while. this morning, she seemed fine, and i put a little dap of vic's vapo-rub in a bowl and poured hot water over it, and had her breathe in the vapors (my dad and grandfather made me do this countless times growing up; i had a little trouble with asthma as a child). immediately afterward, she coughed up and blew a ton of mucus through her nose, so i think it helped. i haven't had her do it again since this morning, because she complained about the "minty taste" in her mouth and her eyes burning from the vic's... but i'm going to have her do it again before bed tonight. i'm also going to have her sleep propped up as much as possible; this is hard because she likes to sleep on her tummy with her arms tucked underneath her body, laying flat on the bed.

rowan's nose is runny today, too. we didn't get to go to the toddler la leche league meeting this morning, which i was looking forward to, since there hasn't been a meeting since november. i also had to reschedule micah's first dental appointment. now i'm stressed out about rowan's teeth. when i took him last week because he tore his gum, the dentist said he had calcification spots on his top two front teeth, which are the beginnings of cavities. now i can see the spots myself... ugh, i just know he's going to have my dental problems, and micah got josh's perfect teeth. he never had a cavity until he was an adult, and i think half my baby teeth were capped.

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