Another First!!! But not a fun one...

Well, add this to this list of firsts...

Saturday morning, McKenley and I, made our way to her first visit to the doctor because she was sick. Casey and I knew it was coming & we are glad we got to wait 6 1/2 months before having a sick baby!!


She woke up Saturday with a nasty cough, much worse than any other cough I've heard from her, so I decided to go ahead and call and make an appointment. We are so lucky to have a doctor that has Saturday hours!!! I'm so glad we decided to go in because the doctor said she had croup cough (or as my mom put it, a bad cough and they don't know what else to call it :) haha). Unfortunately, its a viral infection and absolutely nothing we can do but wait it out! GREAT!! They gave her a steroid shot, which went over FANTASTICALLY, or not, to try and reduce the inflammation in her upper respiratory and sent us on our way.

 Caught in the middle of a cough, so sad!

Waiting for her shot :(

 Luckily, she wasn't showing any other symptoms, no fever, not much congestion, and was in pretty good spirits, so Casey and I were thinkin, "We can totally handle a sick baby!!" and I left that evening to go see a show with my family. POOR CASEY!! That's all I have to say!! McKenley's mood evidently took a turn for the worse and, to put it nicely, wouldn't cooperate with dad. :( I arrived home at about 10:30pm to find our sick baby asleep on her exhausted daddy.

The last few days have been about the same. The cough has gotten remarkably better, but the congestion has gotten a bit worse.  Poor thing has so much trouble breathing when you lay her down that it takes quite a while to get her to sleep. We have tried sitting in a hot steamy bathroom for a while before bed to loosen up the congestion, but as soon as she starts crying when we lay her down, the congestion is back. We have gone 3 days now with very few naps and waking up quite a bit at night.  One of the only ways we have gotten a nice nap out of her is...

on mom or dad. :/

Hopefully we are over the worst of it, I am definitely ready to have my baby back, the one that goes to sleep when I lay her down and takes nice long naps :)