So our little Giuliana has been experiencing her first 'under the
weather week'. I say under the weather rather than sick because she
really isn't acting sick, just stuffed up--no fever, no cough, no
vomiting--we think it is directly related to teething. Which, speaking
of, there are still NO teeth. This is a joke. It's as if she has been
teething for friggin ever. Just come already and then leave us alone for
a while! Anyway, she's been extremely stuffed up with the runniest nose
I have ever seen. I wouldn't have believed how much snot could really
come out of a child's nose. Like, whoa. It all started last Sunday when I
went to get her out of her crib in the morning and noticed a giant snot
glob resting below her nose and above her lip...on the verge of making
its way down to her mouth. Oh no! I scurried around the room for a wipe
and cleaned her up just in time. I decided to forgo our morning walk and
keep her inside and she still seemed tired, so we snuggled on the couch
and she fell asleep. Fast forward 5 days, emails to the doctor, saline
spray, snot suctioning and a few long nights, she is still stuffed up.
Breaks my heart to see my baby turned mouth-breather dripping in snot
and drool all day long. This hasn't slowed her down in the playing
department, however. She's mastered holding her bottle and is now
thisclose to crawling! She can scoot around and turn, but she hasn't
quite figured out how to use her arms and legs at the same time.
Although she doesn't seem amused, we certainly are when we see that her
head is buried in the ground because she got her legs to work but not
the arms. You can't help but chuckle a little inside when her butt is up
in the air and she sort of looks like a little snail.
Being that she is super stuffed up, and still drooling ALL over the place, resulting in 6 outfit changes a day and a bazillion bibs, she has a hard time breathing when sleeping or trying to eat. The very day we got our whole house cleaned and she was eating avocado for dinner, a sneeze came on at the worst possible time. What do you get with a mouth full of avocado, mom's face in your face, and a sparkly clean dinner table and floor? You see where I'm going with this...it went ALL OVER me and the table. Why do we even bother?? After the initial shock, we did have a laugh. But still. Not cool.
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| Just a glimpse of the mess that it was |
So,
we're hoping little G gets rid of this runny nose soon and gains some
teeth along the way so we can all have a break from this awesome
milestone.
