I have a few moments, so I thought I'd do a quick update... At the moment we are on "Griffin Sick Watch." Two days ago Regan spent the day hugging, kissing, and breathing all over her baby brother, as she usually does. That evening she started coughing and was then up all night coughing, crying, and saying "I need to swallow, but it hurts to swallow, but I need to swallow..." Her temperature was up to 103 and she felt miserable. I never realized until I was a mother how it is really true that you can look at your child's face and know instantly if something is not right. Regan just LOOKED sick. It was also a definite introduction to the 'now I have 2 kids' mentality. Normally, I would be hugging her, babying her, and worrying myself sick over her with worst case scenarios (call it the curse of the pediatrician mommy), but, in addition to doing all those things, I found myself panic-striken over my OTHER little one. Griffin is barely 5 weeks old, and only 3 weeks out of the NICU, so obviously another illness would be very bad. We are keeping them separated (which makes Regan FURIOUS) but, as my friend Marnie who's youngest son is a heart transplant recipient, says (she is also a pediatrician, and someone who lives with the fear of one child infecting the other but on a much greater scale) "if she was going to pass it on to him, she probably already did." So we are just watching and waiting. I have so many other happy things to blog about, and I'm hoping I will have some time later to write about them because in the grand scheme, things are going really well. I also want to post pictures so everyone can see how big Griffin is getting. He is absolutely adorable!
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