Ear Infection and RSV

Last Monday Bailey had her 4 month wellness checkup. Things went great. She weighed 15# 11 oz. (90th percentile!), measured at 25 inches (75th percentile) and her head circumference was 16 1/4 cm (50th percentile). Quite a change from her 2 month appointment when her weight had her in the 25th percentile. Ahhh....formula does wonders! Everything else looked great! She got her vacinations, we talked about starting food and then we were out the door.

Two days later, we were back. When I picked Bailey up from day care, Fran (our day care provider) said that she was extremely fussy and didn't really eat well. She was also sounding really congested and had a pretty bad cough. I had noticed that since Monday she seemed to be a little more irritable, but I thought maybe that was just a reaction to her shots. Then I picked her up to get ready to leave as she started coughing so hard, it lead her to vomit. That kind of freaked me out (I know...first time mother syndrome) but Fran agreed that I should probably call my doctor. We were able to get Bailey in that evening. I had Andy meet me there, just so the doctor could get his input on things too. Bailey had her first chest x-ray (which was quite the expereince) and was tested for RSV (a respiratory virus). The RSV test came back positive. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do for RSV except wait it out.

I took Thursday and Friday off so I could stay home with Bailey and just love and cuddle with her (doctor's orders - seriously, it was!). I continued to observe her appetite decrease and her fussiness increase. Friday afternoon, Andy and I decided that it would be a good idea to see if we could get her back into the doctor. What do you know - she now had an ear infection! Thankfully we could get her started on Amoxicillin right away. That has definitely made a big difference.

Today she is finally acting her self again : super smiley, very talkative, playing a lot and has her appetite back (we wouldn't want her to get out of the 90th percentile for weight now would we?!?). I'll be going back to work tomorrow which means Bailey will be heading back to day care. We think she'll be just fine and are hoping that she doesn't catch any other bugs soon. She still has a pretty nasty cough, but hopefully the RSV will clear up soon.