Could we...

Erase this last week??

I'm almost serious.  My sweet hubbie went out of town two days after Christmas and everything fell apart.  I had promised myself that this time I would not aggravate my mom to death, that I would be a big girl and stay at home with the kids and put away Christmas decorations. 

Well, that lasted about 24 hours.

I was up literally all night with Ava, knowing something was not right.  (But part of me did not pay much attention, because both of the kids seem to have a radar for abnormal around our house, and when daddy's not home, it's abnormal.

You know the rest (or if you've read other posts, you do)....double ear infection.  She was put on antibiotics and I'm thinking we'll be back up and running in a couple of days. 

Not so.

She continued to be unlike herself for the next several days, even after her daddy came home.  We even had to let her sleep upright in her swing from 2 am two nights (and probably will tonight).  She was pitiful, yesterday even screaming for 5 hours.  I had taken her back to the doctor Monday and she thought maybe we were dealing with some reflux issues.  Kind of out of nowhere, but okay, I thought that could certainly do it.  I was so concerned she had burst an eardrum that I didn't even think to ask what would have caused it this late (at 5 months). 

Well, after prevacid and mylanta and upright sleeping and eating, still, nothing worked.  She started again this morning, and i decided that was it.  No more sitting around listening to that.  (Because I haven't mentioned this: I may have been just a little crazed the last week or so.  I don't mean just a little, I mean borderline crazy.  No sleep and screeching children and me do not mix, apparently.)

We had to see another doctor this morning, but after checking Ava's color, tummy, and hydration, she felt comfortable nothing serious was wrong.  She decided the augmentin she was on for her ear infection had caused some severe reflux.  Perfect.  Another reason to love antibiotics.  The hope is that after she's been off that for 24 hours and take mylanta for 24 hours, she would start feeling some relief.  We are also supposed to give her some yogurt a couple of times a day.  I was thinking we would have a hard time with that since she's been pretty uninterested in solids lately, but she LOVED the stuff!  She probaby ate 3 ounces total today...which is definitely the most she's eaten.  (I'm sure this means we'll have major spit up sometime this evening :)  She even ate some bananas after I cut off the yogurt...don't want her getting totally addicted to the sugar already, right?

Needless to say, I'm praying tonight is the last of the super crazy nights (until next time) and that we'll get some good sleep.  Despite all the trouble and all my craziness, Grayson, his daddy, and I got to spend some time together outside yesterday.  And even though it was freezing, it was worth all the world to see him smile....and it made the crazy week a little more bearable.