Are you serious?

That was my very first thought when the Doctor told us to head to the hospital on Saturday morning. My poor baby couldn't breathe. She's only a month old, and she already caught a nasty cold! Since she is so tiny, her body just couldn't handle it. We had to hook her up to oxygen and an IV because she was dehydrated. About every two hours the nurses would come in and deep suction her nose. I hope none of you ever have to see that! They thread this long tube down her nose and suction out all the gunk. She did not like that at all. After they'd done it a couple of times, she couldn't really scream anymore because she'd lost her voice! After a bunch of tests they determined that it wasn't RSV, but bronchiolitis. Basically a nasty cold for babies. I've really taken it for granted that I can just blow my nose when I'm sick. The Doctor said that on top of her being so congested she just has tiny little passage ways. So all the suctioning started to make the problem worse because it was making her already tiny passage ways swollen. She got a couple of breathing treatments while we were there as well. We came home Monday afternoon, she is still sick, but she isn't dependent on the oxygen anymore, so there was no reason to stay beyond getting her suctioned every couple of hours. We opted to go home, and can return as an outpatient to get her suctioned when she needs it. Geez, my poor baby! I've been SO careful with her because I've been paranoid about her getting sick. I haven't gone anywhere! Sean and I have been sick though, so it's not like we can't be around her!

Change of subject: we got her pictures back from her first "photo shoot" so I thought I'd share some with you. These are my two favorites. I love the one of her screaming, don't ask me why cause it's not a pleasant sound, but the picture is just too cute!