Monday afternoon Little Bug felt like she was on fire. I took her temp and it was 104.4! So I called the doctor immediately and the nurse told me to give her motrin and call back if her temp continued to spike after being on motrin.

Over the next two days she continued to get a high fever, I’d give her motrin and the fever would come down only to spike again once the motrin wore off.

With Thanksgiving this week and since her temp was still getting to 105 last night (without motrin), I took her in first time this morning.

Everything was clear – except a tiny bit of redness in her throat. She has had no other symptoms except the high fevers.

The checked her for strep and that was negative. Her urine sample (that was fun trying to get) showed she is a little dehydrated.

So, now we are to give the fever 3-5 days and if she is still having high fevers on Friday, I have to take her in for blood work.

Today is day 3 of fevers so hopefully today or tomorrow this fever will break and blood work won’t be necessary.

It’s a good thing we are staying the week at my parents’ house since all the family is here for Thanksgiving or else I probably would have gone insane (I kinda have anyways) without extra help this week.

Sweet Pea isn’t sleeping too well at night. I am still trying to pin point the problem so we can find a solution.

I’ve narrowed it down to two possible problems: not eating enough formula during the day so she is needing a feed during the night and/or a paci dependency that is interfering with continuous sleep.

I’m thinking it is probably more of an issue with needing to eat more during the day so she can go longer at night between feedings. However, the problem here is that because of her stomach issues, she can’t really consume a lot of formula at one feed. She is still eating 3 to 3.5 ounces each feed, so yesterday we decided to try getting her to eat 3.5 ounces every feed. She did well and didn’t spit up at all yesterday!

But then she was still up at 3am, my mom gave her the paci (My mom took her last night to give me a break. Yes, my mom is awesome.) but then she was up again at 4am, so she fed her at 3 and she went back to sleep after that until 7:50. Not bad.

The only reason she hesitated to feed her at 3am is because we aren’t sure if she really needs to eat when she wakes up because she wakes every night but some nights she eats like she is really hungry and then other nights she sips and I have to keep nudging her to continue eating.

So, tonight I am just going to feed her right away first time she wakes up and we will go from there. If she could just get to where she was eating six 4 ounce bottles (24 ounces/day), I think she would finally be able to drop that 4am (ish) feed.

So hopefully in a matter of just a little more time, she will get there. I am soooooo ready to be sleeping through the night again. Those couple of weeks here and there that she has dropped that 4am (ish) feed made such a huge difference in my overall ability to handle both girls during the day.

Sleep is so vital for us – no matter our age – which is why I work so hard at the very beginning to establish good sleeping (and eating) patterns in my children.

I’m very tired this week with both girls getting up in the night, but I am very thankful to have my family’s help and support. And I am very thankful that sleepless nights are not my norm and will eventually be a season of my life that have passed hopefully by the end of this year or the very beginning of next year!

- Elaine