It's been fairly smooth sailing on the teething front -- nothing more than excessive drool to deal with. But with the arrival of the tip of her first little tooth, we are now in the midst of drool rash (ouch) and diaper rash (owwwey) and also her first ear infection (oh dear....). She was pretty clingy and fussy for several days, and there was a tiny little purple blister on her gum that you could occassionaly get a glimpse of (she wouldn't let us near it, especially not to probe with a finger tip - it was very tender of course). She ran a slight fever at the same time, which is common, so we assumed that the fever was purely teething driven. I stayed home with her that morning (she can't go to daycare with a fever greater than 100.1 F). She seemed fine that afternoon and the next morning, but daycare called when her fever cranked back up and hit 102...and climbed to 103 when Tag took her to the doctor. Sinusitis and a double ear infection. We apparently caught it early, thank goodness. She's on (awful nasty terrible) antibiotics twice a day for ten days... will finish up right before we head off to Europe. I pray that her ears are fully healed by then....I hate to think what a plane flight would feel like with a remnant ear infection.
So now we're dealing with antibiotics and the resulting gastro complications....and her mouth is broken out in a rash that I keep ointment on....and her poor bum is bright and painfully red so that also gets slathered in various ointments (one for the rash and one for what the doctor thinks is a spot of yeast infection). But overall she seems to be feeling much better. Her little tooth (lower left front) is just barely peeking out... I wonder how close behind the next one will be....
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