I was in the other room when I overheard Jay singing a lullaby to Thane. Only when I went in the room to hear it better did I hear the original lyrics.

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Lullaby
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Thane had a follow up doctor’s appointment yesterday. Dr. Brooks said he looked good and the ear infection had gone down considerably. There was still a trace of fluid, but not enough to keep him on the antibiotics. Jay and I were both relieved to take him off the meds…maybe now the marathon diarrhea can end!

Thane was also weighed and measured: he weighed 12 lbs 4 oz, just an ounce shy of doubling his birth weight, and was 24 inches tall! TWENTY FOUR INCHES!!!! He is definitely his father’s son!

We also got the green light to fly to Canada tomorrow. We received his passport in the mail yesterday. Thane becomes a world traveler tomorrow and will be officially inaugurated into the crazy world of mom and dad traipsing from here to there and back again.

On a side note, the new passports are way cool…they have a microchip and are more colorful than ever before. His photo is terrible, does not look like him at all and he has to have it until he is 5. How will a 5 year old look like an infant???

I have seen the inside of more hospitals this year than I care to see in a lifetime.

After 5 days fighting a fever, Thane was admitted to the hospital. He is doing better. Scary though, for a 9.5 week old.

The first signs of fever showed up early Thursday morning. It was very low, 99.8, so we sent him to school. An hour later they called us because it was 100.6. We went to the Pediatrician and neither he nor we could register that high of a temp. He sent us home and said Thane could go to school the next day (Friday). Friday morning, we were seeing temps in the 100s, so Jay and I stayed at home with him, alternating going to work in the morning or afternoon while the other stayed with the baby.

I was not panicking. When I was a kid, I got ridiculously high temps that caused me to have Febrile Seizures. 100-101 did not alarm me. Saturday he still had a fever but the pediatrician’s nurse still was not concerned, it could still be a result of his 2 month vaccinations. Saturday night he spiked…102.5. We called the on-call pediatrician. She was not alarmed, but said if he still was not feeling well, we should come in tomorrow (Sunday). (more…)