• No dairy or applesauce, give vegetables and prune for constipation.
• Give pedialite drink, or frozen, if won’t take, give water and saltine crackers. Give 1 tbsp every 10 mins, increasing gradually
• Tylenol 2.25 droppers (infant) for 25-27 lbs
• 29 lbs can have 2 ML

Motherhood is a lot of different experiences. It’s the mundane of changing diapers and preparing meals, it’s the ultimate joy of having your little arms thrown around my neck in the most loving and exhuberant kind of embrace, it’s the worry about what you’re going to grab from the floor to put in your mouth or where you might fall.

There are countless joys, and there are many stresses. But nothing is as gut-wrenchingly painful as watching you suffer through injections, IV drip implantation, xrays, nose suctioning, nebulizer treatments and oxygen tubes attached to your cheeks at the hospital. It doesn’t seem fair, that this is your second hospitalization this winter. You were admitted through ER again on Sunday at 4am, with xrays confirming pneumonia. You’ve had colds for about 3 weeks or a month now, and it is down in your lungs so you have a wheezing cough and rattling chest..

“What was THAT all about???”
Tonight you are home, resting peacefully in your crib as I tap away on the keyboard here. We’re all exhausted after this brief stay in hospital. You recovered more quickly than anticipated, our Warrior Princess
– very motivated you were to get far from the needles, suctioning tubes and all that horrible stuff. But aren’t we lucky to have such great care. You had a big long 2 hour or so nap on Grandma’s lap this afternoon, right after you got up from a nap. “I was reading to her, and I looked down and she was out!” You woke up and you were so animated and in such a good mood. It’s great to have our sweet Taite back!