Lillian is officially eight months old now. She is still tiny weighing 12 pounds 10 ounces and around 25 inches long. She is just now getting to where she is outgrowing her 0-3 month clothes and size 1 diapers but can still fit into both. Almost everyone including her doctor and the daycare ladies call her a little peanut. She can sit by herself and is starting to roll around the floor to get to different toys. When she sits she moves her hands in the crawling motion and lifts up her butt but doesn’t get into the crawling position yet. Lillian is so much fun right now. She giggles and squeals a lot and is just very interactive. The two pictures on the left are eight month old and the one on the right is her seven month picture.
The last month or so has been pretty interesting to say the least. Right before Christmas we started Lillian on amoxicillin because she had an ear infection in her right ear. We went back to the doctor on January 20, 2010 for her booster flu shots and for the doctor to recheck her ears. Well, she still had an infection in her right ear so we started her on Augmentin.
The 20th was a Wednesday and that weekend she just wasn’t herself but never had a fever over 100. So on Monday we checked her temp again and it was in the 98’s so we went ahead and took her daycare even though she wasn’t fully acting like herself. Around 1 on Monday I got a call from daycare that she had a fever of 101. So I went to pick her up, we got home and I gave her Tylenol and she was decent the rest of the day.
The next morning, she still was not herself and had a temp in the 99’s so I stayed home with her. She continued to get worse even though she never really had a high temperature. Around early afternoon she was just sleeping and laying on me with no emotion at all. I got really concerned so I called the doctor and they wanted to see her to check her ears. We took her in and she had an ear infection in both ears. She was 6 days into the antibiotic so it obviously wasn’t working. The doctor said that we would need to give her Rocephin shots. So she got one that day and the next two days we had to take her in again to get each shot. She actually handled them really well. She was much happier by the weekend and it was fabulous to see her smile and giggle again.
Wednesday we had to take her back to the doctor to make sure that the ear infection was gone this time. Well, both ears still had fluid in them so the doctor prescribed Omnicef and gave us a referral to an ear, nose, and throat doctor. Her appointment is on February 17. We are pretty sure that we will go and have to schedule an appointment for Lillian to have tubes put in her ears.
At first, the thought of having her go through surgery, yes minor, but still surgery and still put under, was really scary. Now that it has settled in and I know that it will probably be easier and better for her than to continue to get ear infections that don’t go away I’m taking it better.