man alive, it's been HOT! fortunately my parents have an air conditioned home, so gabe and i have been spending our days over there, plus we have a portable aircon unit in gabe's room to keep it cool at night. yippee!
having said that, one would think our week's been a "breeze". nope, gabe chose this week to have a slow and total meltdown. at first i blamed it on the heat, since our place is like a sauna 24/7 and nursing him was torture. but then the rash appeared...under his chin, behind his ears, under his armpits, and today it's just all over his little body. after the rash came the tantrums...for no reason! crying because he wasn't being held, crying because he didn't want to be held, crying because mama wasn't holding him. then came the "body flinging". we called him the human pretzel because on more than one occasion, my mom was tangled with gabe and had to be "rescued" :P
after the worst day yesterday, we took gabe to the doctor and indeed he's suffering from a virus. unfortunately there's nothing we can do except keep him comfortable and cool, and perhaps the occasional dose of baby tylenol :-) thank goodness for my parents! we've been passing gabe like a hot potato trying to keep him calm...poor chach...he's been crying so much he's gotten hoarse!
despite all the misery, this has been a great "practice" week for my return to work. gabe's been very cooperative and taken all his naps in the pack & play at my parents' house. granted, they vary from 15 minutes to 3 hours in length, but we take whatever he'll give us!
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oh no...poor Gabe...geez sounds like Sofia this week too...except I don't think she has a virus...just hates the heat and has heat rash all over. We weren't too prepared for the heat so just have ONE fan for the whole damn house...by the time we get others, the heat will have dissipated..hehe We gave Sofia Tylenol too for the first time and she slept for 3 hours..she had a slight fever during those hot nights. hang in there...the cool weather is coming...who knew summer could be so tough on the babies?
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