First, we began to see the inking of teeth forming on Xander's bottom gumline, and then sure enough - the first one broke through...then the next one!
But I should back up....
Before the sighting of teeth, Xander had his first ear infection. It was right before his six month check up. I was acting all proud: "He's been in daycare for more than three months, and this is the first time we've had to see the doctor!" Haha...little did I know. On a positive note though - he was still the happy-go-lucky Xander we all know and love all during the infection. No complaints.
Then we had his six month check up. The doc said his ear looked "better" but not completely healed so if he started acting up/differently to bring him back in. Well, hello, has she met him...he's not very good at letting on that he is in pain. Luckily she did mention that if his sleep starts acting up to bring him back in...because that's how we knew something was up. He went from waking up only once a night to waking up twice...and usually pretty miserable at that first wake up.
So back to the doctor...
Yup, this time it was a double ear infection. Great...I got all cocky with the first one, right!? Anywho - the doc prescribed a stronger medicine this time - Augmentin. All seemed to be going well until about day 5 into taking the new medicine....Simon brought him in looking like this:
Luckily I have a baby nurse as a sister and quickly texted her a photo to make sure this wasn't chicken pox. She said it looked more like a reaction...was he taking any medicine or had he eaten anything new/different? BINGO.
So Simon took him to the doctor, and sure enough - textbook penicillin reaction. Doc said it was 'normal' enough and to keep pumping him with Benadryl. So we did. When they looked like this the next day:
we called to ask how long we could give him the Bendryl. Doc said however long we wanted/needed.
So when he looked like this the next day, I called the doctor again....he humored my question and said the spots could be there for up to 10 days!!
But then he woke up the next day, and they were gone...and have been gone since.
It's been a fun week-and-a-half to two weeks in our house! Now we just have to get his sleep back on track! (and await the next tooth breakthrough!)
