After the holiday feasting some family members
decided to lighten their diet - unfortunately including our little angel. For
over a week now, she has basically cut all her meals into half. Bottles
of milk are left half-drunken and meal times have become a real arena of mind
games and will power. My husband mindfully suggested to return the apple
crumble into his diet, just to see if it would make any difference. I said I
appreciate his sacrifice, but doubt our daughter would be so easily played
around.
Then came fever, and coughing, and non-stop
running nose..One would think we had a 110 year old veteran chain-smoker
sleeping in the baby bed =( We became worried: Child with all those symptoms
AND loosing appetite is definitely not OK. Finally yesterday we took her to see
our wonderful, kind and competent Madame Doctor. She carefully examined her
ears, eyes, lungs, throat and announced our little daughter is perfectly
fine. AND has her very first tooth out! JIPPIII! The itchy gums had been
causing the fever, excess drooling and coughing. Such a relief! And on the same
breath we felt silly - we had been waiting for the little teeth since five
months ago and yet they managed to arrive sneaking behind..
P.S. I gave my baby a bath this evening and
couldn't help myself, but stuck my finger in her mouth, rolled it over and
around her gums just to admire the new little white tooth..5 minutes later I
sit down to give her the bottle, when I suddenly feel a tiny sharp thingy
entering my mouth, rolling with determination over my gums..Maybe the apple
crumbre would have made a difference after all?
