Starting around 6 days old, he started sleeping at night. And not just short little bursts. Like 7-8 hours at a time. It was HEAVEN. As my mom said, it was making my transition to having another infant in the house much easier. I was honestly afraid to tell anyone how he was sleeping for fear that it would stop. He kept it up until last Friday, at which point he started getting snotty. I expected this would happen, but it just kept getting worse and worse. I took him in to the doctor on Monday afternoon, at which point the pediatrician told me he had RSV. I vaguely knew what this was, then did what you shouldn't do and googled it and within minutes was convinced my child was going to get pneumonia and die. I kept having horrible flashbacks of watching Anna get a spinal tap at his age when she got sick as a baby. I spent the next 48 hours a complete basketcase, which wasn't made any better when I had to take him back on Tuesday and was sent home with a nebulizer and two different medicines we had to give him every 2-3 hours. Jerry and I took him back to the pediatrician Wednesday morning, where it was determined Jacob had improved, but not as much as they would have liked, so we were told we needed to take him to the children's hospital in Savannah and we'd be spending 2-3 days there. I packed a bag for the both of us and we headed in. When we arrived one of the first things they did was the actually RSV test...which came back negative. Really?!? And we didn't do this at the pediatrician's office WHY? Moral of the story - if the pediatrician wants to have your child admitted to a hospital because of some virus or something, ask if there's a test that they need to run first to determine whether or not your child actually has that virus. It will save you a lot of stress.
So here's the little man on his one month birthday:
Like I said, I still have a hard time believing we are a family of five. It's no secret that Jacob wasn't exactly a planned baby. Now I think of him as the baby I never realized I wanted until I had him. I cannot imagine life without him. I am convinced that there is a larger reason as to why I had this little man brought into my life. We thought we were done after Anna, but we ended up with a surprise. He fought through adversity while he was in the womb to make it out healthy, and he keeps fighting. Before I thought our family was complete; now I know we are complete. It's freaking hard with three kids, there's no doubt about that. And I get totally frustrated sometimes when I think about how close we were to being out of diapers and the girls being a tad more self-sufficient. But having Jacob in our lives makes all of us better I think, and I can't wait to see what life has in store for him.
