My poor girl! She had a rough night… and thus, so did I. 🙁 🙁 she was shivering, inconsolable, didn’t want to be held, had more of a fever, would drink water from a bottle (thank goodness) and had one full(!) wet diaper (again thank goodness!).
At one point, Emi woke up and when I went to give her water, Abby woke up and started crying. Then, she was absolutely inconsolable. She just cried and tried to roll away from me, then back. I was afraid she was going to hit her head with all the thrashing she was doing. Eventually, I thought maybe it was my presence so I laid her back in her crib, rubbed the Vick’s baby rub on her chest (I call it “smelly stuff” and they like it) and left… she cried for a few minutes and then calmed down.
But then I’d hear her cry out every 5-10 minutes. This was around 5am. I believe I have seen way too much of the wee-early morning hours in the recent days.
According to BabyCenter, the flu is diagnosed (over just a cold) if there is “the sudden onset of fever, typically 101 degrees or higher; muscle aches; fatigue; and chills, followed by respiratory symptoms such as a runny nose and a dry cough.”
It’s so weird because Monday she was fine and Tuesday she was not… starting with the fever. I KNOW she was aching beacause she was just NOT active even with having had Tylenol. Even this morning, I gave her tylenol at 4am and her fever went down, but it was obvious she was just plain exhausted! Our thermometer seems to be on the fritz, but it did register 101.3 before it died yesterday.
I know she also has the chills, because I watched her this morning in her crib shiver and cry out, then thrash her head back and forth, then shiver. And, of course, she has a super-runny nose… but it’s still clear. No big cough (or not much of one yet).
I just feel so bad for her!!!! And, what’s next? Will Emi get this? Joseph? Me? Ron?!?!?!