Preface: I have like 5 posts that I have started this year but I have all but given up on this blog... sad but true! I used to love blogging and used it as my digital baby book. I have all of Rowan's monthly stats on papers from our pediatrician and I need to put them on here! I guess enjoying our three boys is more important than blogging sometimes.
Oh we are back to the fun of RSV. Corbin had it when he was 10 months old, right before we went on a cruise. It is much more scary now that Rowan has it at only 13 weeks. I don't know where he got it. The only places we go lately are a once a week trip to the grocery store where he is strapped to me in the Ergo and the park and all those times he is in the Ergo. The boys have had what we thought were just allergies but now I am wondering if they gave Rowan the RSV virus. We are pretty diligent about hand washing around here. Corbin got my germa phobia gene!
It started with a runny nose last week but now it is worse! On Sunday night I went and woke Jason up at 2 am because Rowan was coughing so much. (A little back story I am sleeping on the couch and have been for a month, because of a flood from a broken bathroom toilet tank, this happened on Valentine's Day evening, and it flooded our bathroom and saturated our carpet in our bedroom and closet. so we are waiting for home depot to install carpet the day before my birthday, which is March 22nd! Can I just say I miss sleeping next to my husband! I was sleeping on the air mattress in Rowan's room with him but my neck got the worst pain, pinched nerve which I had for 2 weeks and I couldn't even turn my head and would have shooting pains down my neck and shoulder, that I moved to the couch.)
Anyways, we called the nurse on call because Rowan was coughing so much at 2 am and he was kinda gasping. The nurse said to go to the ER because she thought he has croup and to go to the ER. Well we listened to a child with croup on youtube and it sounds like a seal barking and we knew he didn't have croup. We waited it out until morning and called the doctor. We took him to the doctor yesterday and sure enough he has RSV! This is not good because it can cause asthma later in life. Corbin has never shown signs of asthma but I feel much worse that Rowan has it because he is so much younger.
Rowan was weighted at the doctors office and weights 15 lbs 12 oz! He is such a "chunker monk" as Jason calls him! I looked back on our blog for comparison sake and saw that Grayson was 14 lbs 11 oz at 4 months. Keep in mind Grayson was only 6 lbs 15 oz at birth and Rowan was a whopping 8 lbs 5 oz! So Gray was quite a bit smaller! This kid has been in 6 months clothes since probably 2 and a half months old. He is in size two diaper at night when he isn't wearing cloth.
In other news I am almost back to my pre-pregnancy weight! I only have 10 more lbs to go. I gained 40 this pregnancy and started a kinda low carb diet... I have not been following it diligently with all the crap going on in our house. We are living upstairs and our downstairs looks like a bomb went off. Our empty dinning room consist of the contents of our closet floor. Our family room has our bedroom furniture and mattress all over. So we just go downstairs to cook or have meals/snacks then go back upstairs.
We also registered Corbin for kindergarten last week! I am so nervous but excited to see how he will do, As a teacher and knowing how he is... hyperactive I am scared he will be labeled a "troublemaker" when he is not. I tried bringing up ADHD with our pedi at his 5 year appointment but she wasn't really on board since he is so young. I guess we will just wait and see what his kindergaten teacher says.
