I cannot tell you how many times I have thought, said, googled, worried, discussed with my wife, that exact phrase. From babies first fever, which naturally happened when we were out of town, to baby’s first cough, to first ear ache, to first cut….and it goes on and on. I think the coughing is the worst. I don’t know what it is with this kid, but every time he coughs, and I do mean EVERY TIME, it sounds like its coming from the bottom of his lungs and I always think he is coming down with pneumonia. And then we take him to the doctor, very frequently at first, and then only when he has a temperature, and the doctor says – nope, lungs sound great. Man, we are really trying not to be those freak out about everything kind of parents, but, when you think there’s something wrong with your kid, it’s just really hard to be relaxed about it. But, we have tried to turn to more objective things like, what’s his temperature? It’s 100.4F. Well, Dr. Google says if the baby is less than 6 weeks old, you should go to the emergency room if his rectal temperature is 100.4 or greater (or something like that – check for yourself don’t take my word for it). Well, holy #$%^, what do we do now? Oh, and from 6 weeks to whenever, then he can have a 101.2 fever before you have to take him to the ER. Well, hmmm, he turns 6 weeks tomorrow. In 2 days, he’ll be more than 6 weeks. Great timing son! Man, I don’t want to sit in the emergency room, just so they can tell us he’s fine, which is what there gonna say anyways. Right. RIGHT? But maybe he’s not fine. Well, let’s wait for 2 hours and check him at his next feeding / diaper change. Mind you, now its 2 am, and we’re both lying sleeplessly in bed for 2 more hours waiting to stick a thermometer where the sun don’t shine to see what the magic number is. By the way, what’s the accuracy of this thing. And, well, there’s no calibration sticker on it, who freakin’ knows what his temperature is anyways! And on and on and on….Can’t wait until the real problems start. Hopefully he goes easy on us. !! 🙂
Until next time…..