Finally an update

I am finally getting around to updating. It has been a fairly stressful month because Abby has been sick since the middle of September. At first it started out as a cold, which turned into a double ear infection. She was also checked for pneumonia and RSV. The contraption that she was put in for the chest x-ray was terrible. She was given antibiotics for the ear infection.

At a check-up two weeks later, she was diagnosed with an upper respiratory infection and bronchiolitis. She was given more antibiotics and told to do breathing treatments three times a day for the next four days. Unfortunately, she did not handle the antibiotics well and it gave her terrible red diarrhea (she pooped about 15 times in one day) along with horrible diaper rash. That meant we were back to the doctor. The doctor thinks that she may have a touch of a stomach bug as well. We were told to stop the antibiotics and they gave her a shot of them instead. She is doing much better and we were able to stop the breathing treatments. She is still having diarrhea about twice a day, so she is on soy formula until it disappears. Yuck.

The good news is that Abby is growing like a weed. Despite being sick for a month, she was up to 15 lb 10 oz at the doctor on Friday. She is still gaining nearly a pound a week. She is finally starting to enjoy her tummy time a little more. She is able to push up with her arms. She hasn't rolled over yet and she seems to have given up on trying for now. Instead she tries to scoot around on her belly. She can kind of move around in a circle, but she can't make it more than about 6 inches moving forward.

For Halloween we are going to take her around to the houses of a few co-workers. Hopefully she will cooperate and not throw a fit in her costume again.