here's how the last few days have gone. friday & saturday he screamed and refused to sleep longer than 30 minutes at a time. he was up from about midnight to 7am saturday night/sunday morning. i debated saturday on taking him to urgent care, but really wanted to wait to see our pediatrician. luckily, our pediatrician's office is open on sundays, so as soon as i was able, i called to make an appointment. i REALLY thought he had an ear infection.
the result ... "there's nothing wrong with him that i can see". she knew, by looking at his chart, that he was being watched because of an enlarged kidney before he was born, so she wanted to get an ultrasound of his kidney to make sure there were no blockages that could be causing pain. we had to wait from sunday to wednesday though without knowing what or if there was anything wrong.
he seemed better and was sleeping again, but started getting some green gunk in his eyes that was only getting worse. today he had his ultrasound at 8:45 and an appointment with his pediatrician at 2:00. praise the Lord, the ultrasound results showed nothing wrong. i was very happy that his kidneys were perfect and wouldn't need a follow up at all.
my next concern was what else was going on with him that would cause him to stop sleeping & start screaming. he's always been such a peaceful, happy baby. something changed. dr. henderson sent us to another room to have some test done on his ears because "his ears are really tiny". both ears failed the test, which meant double ear infection. eye infection was added onto that diagnosis and an oral antibiotic & an antibiotic eye cream were ordered.
i KNEW something was wrong. i'm so thankful for my mommy intuition and that hopefully my little guy will be feeling better soon. this is what he looked like these last few days ...
he definitely hasn't been his smiley little self and i can't wait till he's back to being himself. having a sick little one is so hard!!
dr. henderson did say that "it's not good that he's not even 4 months yet and he's already getting ear infections". looks like we're already on the road to getting tubes.
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