Hannah has had a cold for the past couple of days. Not surprising since I have had one as well, and it has been going around. You know, the run-of-the-mill runny-nose kind of cold.
The problem is, like right now as I am writing this and she is lying in her crib next to me, that she is having a harder-than-usual time breathing. She has always had breathing issues due to her laryngomalacia (poor muscle tone in her throat). But now she is lying on her back (even though she started on her side) and breathing pretty heavily. I keep looking at her chest and throat to see if she has having bad retractions, which she isn’t.
I’m trying not to overreact. I woke up my husband two nights ago and almost took her to the ER because of it. But she made it through the night (with me wide-awake watching her the entire time). She is much better during the day. We got a new humidifier and that has helped quite a bit, which goes back to it being just a cold.
We go back to the pediatrician on Wednesday for our every 2-to-3-week checkup. I’ll definitely bring this up to him. We go back to the ENT doctor (otolaryngologist) on the 26th for her laryngomalacia, and I don’t see any improvement in it. But it doesn’t seem to be getting worse either.
Hi! The poor doll has a cold? I can see why you’d be hard pressed to get sleep when it seems as if her breathing is labored. I hope it clears up quickly!
I’m glad it isn’t getting worse and I look forward to hearing how her appointments go.
Bless her heart! I hope she gets to feeling better.
Oh, that is the worst–the poor dear heart! I am a terrible worrier, so I stay up listening to Katie breathe when she is sick… I can even remember laying awake with my hand on her back for hours when she was a baby–making sure she was taking breaths–but my compulsion didn’t make her well any quicker, nor did it help me the next day when I could barely keep my eyes open… Geesh!
I hope that she is doing much better today–the humidifier always helped Katie–or a sitting in the bathroom with a warm shower going. Take care of yourself, too…
thinking of you!
Hope she starts feeling better very very soon.