RSV

Holy cow blogging is hard!!! Somewhere between week two of working Mama and the current week five, we've had about 7 snow days and a week of RSV. It's been cray-cray my friends! 

Good news though, RSV got its butt kicked, after it kicked our butt - but who's keeping track. That virus was NO JOKE!!! It was our first official sickness with baby and it took him a whopping one week of full time daycare to catch something. It was so sad to see my little struggling to breathe and Mama was a big fat mess. Two trips to the doctor and none to the hospital though so I'd say I made it through ok. Baby boy never ran a fever and was still smiling at everybody and anybody. We are so blessed with a happy little guy!! I was out on snow days the entire time he was sick so I took advantage of giving out snuggles. 

Day four and five were the worst and we wouldn't have made it through without our friends..... 

Nose Frida!!!!! Oh my god this thing literally saved us. Once you get passed the whole sucking boogies thing it is a gift from God himself. Those bulb syringes don't touch this thing. I can see why people would be grossed out by this thing but not once did snot come anywhere near the foot long tube I sucked through. Even if it did there is an inch thick filter that would catch it before it got anywhere near your mouth. The only problem we ran into was after I caught RSV, I had a hard time snot sucking so that's when the hubby had to man up. 

Our second BFF was our saline nose drops. I'm pretty sure Kyle would disagree because he would cry when I used this stuff but it allowed Frida to do her job so it was A-Ok in my book!

This can be used as a spray too but it said just drops for little noses. 

I read the old wivestale about vicks on babys feet covered with socks will help a cough. I wasn't really buying it but we got pretty desperate. 

So after asking my doctor if baby vicks was safe to use, I was assured it was in small amounts, we gave it a go. Guess what? It worked! I don't know if it was a coincidence or not but I don't care. His coughing slowed enough for him to get a good nights rest. And Mommy too!!

I also tried some generic saline wipes for baby's poor red nose. I'm not sure we'll call these guys our friends. I don't know if it would have been better if I tried them before it became raw or not, but these hurt a raw nose. I felt awful because he would cry when I used them, but he cries when I wipe his nose anyway. Then I used one on my own nose and - HOLY BURN! It says alcohol and fragrance free but something stings! Maybe the name brand would have been better. I don't know. My sister in law swears by them. 

We breathed the steam in the bathroom and he slept in his rock n' play, like always.  We cuddled. We played. We laughed. Yes, my friends, we laughed. You see nothing, not anything, gets this kid down. Despite being sick we had lots of these moments....

..... and these......

..... and then there was this.....

...... and this......

This kid is hilarious. Oh, and here's how much I suck at blogging. I wrote this post a month ago. I need to get better at this.