Moments in My Life

This morning I woke up and realized that the crying episodes may due to his molars eruption.  So when he woke up, I asked him to open his mouth to let me check.  I saw the white coming out from the gum.  No wonder he has not been sleeping well. 

His symptom when teething are:

1. Crying for no reason at night.
2. On and off fever could be as high as 102F.  But go away once given Children’s Motrin. 
3. Very grouchy and uncooperative during the day time.
4. Not eating well.  Reduction in appetitte.
5. Easier throw up when eating becos can’t chew well (pain?)

On another hand, due to his crying episodes last nite, he has been coughing reallybadly since this morning.  I gave him the Triaminic Thin Strip to ease his coughing and it works but not immediately.  He has to endure a series of coughing before the medicine kicks in. 

It is really hard as a mom to hear him coughing so badly, like until his lungs are almost coming out.  He doesn’t want to go to the doctor.  Even though if I call the doctor, the nurse would have asked me to monitor his condition for a few days then only bring him in.

If he had listened and stopped crying last night, he wouldn’t have hurt his throat and have to go through this coughing episodes. 

It is 12:09am.  For the last few nights, I have not have much sleep and get tired easily during the day time.   

The crying episodes are back.  If you remember reading this and this, it is similar but with a different twist.  This time he woke up crying (for no reason), and because he has been having a slight irritation to his throat I know if he persists crying, he will develop a coughing episodes.  So I ‘tried‘ to calm him down but the more I told him not to cry the more he cried.  And then he would start coughing.  He would continue crying louder and more counghing persisted.  He didn’t know how to stop crying and I don’t know if he understand when I told him to stop crying that he was supposed to stop and not continue crying.  I got so mad at myself not able to stop him from crying that I walked outside the bedroom biting my own teeth. 

I knew that if he starts crying in the middle of the night, he will not stop until something happened (like a vomit).  So I know he has to stop but he just doesn’t listen and don’t get what ’stop’ means.  I tried to find out what is wrong but he wouldn’t tell me, he would just continue crying.  *sigh*  Our travel date is just in a week time and if he continues to be like this the next few days, I don’t think I will be able to finish packing or ready for the flight. 

 It is time like this that makes me think if I want another baby in the house.