Then Wed morning at 4:43..I experienced the scariest moment of my life. It's hard for me to even type this...but I woke up to my bed shaking. I turned on the light and I saw my baby boy having a seizure...It will be forever burned in my mind. I snatched him up and he was lifeless. I was scared to death. I ran to my security system panel and was pressing the emergency buttons and all it was doing was setting off the alarm when I thought it was supposed to call someone. I finally realized to just use my phone and the ambulance was here not too long after I made the call. Luckily while waiting on them, James woke up and it wasn't until they got here that I realized how hot he was. His temperature was almost 104 by the time they checked it. It was a febrile seizure...which is apparently pretty common and most of the time harmless...it is still the scariest thing to see your child in that condition. I will be paranoid about fevers now.. so we spent hours at the hospital waiting on test results while they tried to figure out what was causing the fever. We left with no answers and just directions to watch him and keep him on advil. Well I did and the next morning we woke up and his fever was pretty high again, so I headed straight to his pediatrician and she gave him a prescription for Amoxicillin to knock out whatever was trying to hurt his little body. He took it for 8 days and he seemed to feel tons better...then he woke me up yesterday morning irritable because he was covered in an itchy rash.Turns out he is allergic..like his momma. So we were back at the doc yesterday to get a steroid and a big NO PENICILLIN on his chart. lol my poor baby has had a rough couple of weeks.
These were taken the night before it happened. His little cheeks were so red. He had a slight fever then and I had given him advil and it was going down at bedtime so I thought we were in the clear.
Luckily all of my teachers have been extremely understanding and let me have as much time as I needed to get my work done. I went to campus yesterday after James was fed and had the steroid in his system and in the loving arms at his daycare. I worked for about 4-5 hours straight and got not only caught up but 2 weeks ahead because James and I are heading home to Alabama a week from today! :) We really need it. I cannot wait to see my family and let them spend time with James. My mom and aunt haven't seen him since September. They are thrilled!
Valentines day was spent with my baby boy at a Mexican restaurant. He was a pretty good date. :)
James turned 8 months yesterday At his doc yesterday he weighed in at 21 lbs 3 ounces. I'm not sure how long he is. He is wearing 12 and 18 month clothes and size 4 diapers. He is crawling everywhere and pulls up on anything he can. He can feed himself little puffs and drinks out of a sippy cup. He got his two bottom front teeth the past two weeks and I'll start introducing finger foods this week probably. He is still breast feeding before naps and bedtime.
