I just returned from the doctor's for Ellie's 18 month check-up and shots and we piggy-backed booster shots for Leo onto the appointment. If I was the sort of person who went to the gym I would have not felt bad about skipping today. What a work-out a double doctor appointment is!
Ellie's grown three inches in two months and gained I think 1.5 pounds. She's in the 95 percentile for height and weight and is according to the doctor, "growing beautifully," so that's nice to hear. As for the recent vomiting/snotty nose, she has that virus that everyone in the great state of New Jersey seems to have so there you go.
I mentioned Leo's sleeping problems to the doctor and asked him if kids with Ds have sleeping problems, knowing even as I asked this that I probably know way more about Ds than our very well intentioned pediatrician does. But hey, I was making conversation, and he asked how we were doing and since sleep is pretty much first and foremost on my mind right now...so he suggested Benadryl for a week. See how that goes. The problem with laying down with him to go to sleep is that he's now waking up in the middle of the night, finding us not there and going to us. He even followed Erin to the bathroom last night (cheered after she went). I realized what the doctor said was true but hearing someone else say it made me think hmm. Maybe we should deal with this and not look at it like a "phase." The biggest problem with having him in our bed every night (well there are many problems) is No Break from Kid. But I'm not sure how I feel about Benadryl. He also mentioned valarium, which I have used (hard to believe there was a time when I had no one interfering with sleep and I couldn't sleep--ah, the life) but don't recall it doing much.
Now the question is what to do with the rest of our day. It's warmer than it's been, so we could go outside (Leo's been dying to play in the snow) but Ellie hates the snow (see pics from post a few weeks ago). I was considering taking the kids to an indoor play space that a mom friend of mine told me about, but this same mom friend told me to avoid it on school holidays because the older kids tend to overrun the littler ones.
In the meantime, Ellie's napping. The shots wore her out. Me too.
2 comments:
Glad you're alive and well. "Well," I guess is a relative term with the two demanding hooligans and you
not sleeping, missing work, cleaning up Exorcist puke,
being stuck inside because it's so cold -going outside
for five minutes with kids would constitute child abuse. Hmmmm. Sorry Ellies's under the weather again. We are having an extended weekend. Took
Ryan out for lunch buffet yesterday at your fav NW
Indian restaurant. Guess what: it wasn't great. Sunny and clear here with ferocious tree blowing down east winds. (A guy on Taylor Street had his new Ford pick up crushed by a toppled ornamental plum tree...). Saw a very good movie: "Happy Go Lucky." We're so excited
about the inauguration we might collectively pee our pants.
That's kind of weird about the Benedryl. I thought the company recently put out a statement that it was NOT to be used as sedative. Our developmental pediatrician suggested melatonin for sleep issues.
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