The Baby is 9 Months Old!

I cannot believe he is 9 months old... it just doesn't seem possible!

He went to the doctor for his 9 month check up - sweet boy is in the 10th percentile for weight and 25th percentile for height. Good thing his head is in the 50th! He's got a big noggin on a teeny tiny body... He's so much smaller than the girls were at his age - and that includes a 6 week premature baby! He's just the tiniest thing. Must take after Daddy.

The Baby also thought it would be a fun time for his first ER visit. The week after his check up, he cut his 2 front top teeth. Yes, top teeth! It was so funny to me because the girls got their bottoms first, which I know is more common, but this kid gets his two front teeth first. Silly boy. On Wednesday/Thursday, the girls each ran a really random, yet quick, fever. Pretty low grade, went to bed with Tylenol and woke up feeling fine. On Friday, my parents took me and the kids and my sister and her baby to Tuscola, about 2 1/2 hours away from here, to hit up the Tanger Outlet Malls for some back to school shopping.

The Baby was fine the whole day... he didn't whine or cry too much and he liked being pushed in the stroller. We go home and once Daddy got home, he noticed The Baby felt warm. His temp was almost 102! So we gave him some Tylenol, looked in his mouth and saw 4 more teeth trying to push through. I thought 102 was kinda high for teething, but he had no other symptoms.

We went out to eat and hung out at an arcade for a while and when we got home, The Baby started crying and we noticed he was retracting a bit in his chest. I gave him a breathing treatment and nursed him and once he calmed down, it look a lot less like retractions. We put him to bed and at 1am, he woke us up, crying and really struggling to breathe. Retracting a lot, but no nose flares, no blue tinged fingernails... but I thought he was acting really lethargic and his fever was back. I gave him Tylenol and he puked it up and then a breathing treatment, but he still was not really responding to us and his breathing sounded awful.

This is the point where I started freaking out and my husband had to get me to calm down. I begged him to take him to the ER. He said fine, but he'd go alone and call me if he needed me. I was up the rest of the time until 3:30 when they got home. They gave him more Tylenol, got his fever down and gave him a steroid shot. His pulse ox was 97 when he got there and 97 when he left, so nothing too crazy there but his pulse rate was in the 190s when he got there! Poor little guy... when they left, it was back in the 130s. Well, once he got home, he was hopped up on steroids so he didn't want to sleep and Daddy's alarm went off an hour later. He just stayed home and took him so I could sleep. Our day was all messed up. But The Baby was totally fine the rest of the day!

He does have a cough now and we went to our pediatrician for a follow-up from the ER visit where she ordered a chest X-ray. Thankfully, it came back normal. He's still got a junky cough, but we're hoping that's the end of this nonsense. Oh, yeah, he also started crawling the same week and his 2 bottom teeth popped through. 2 more on the top are close!