Day 7 brings a trip to Urgent Care for Caleb :(

Poor baby Caleb woke up this morning with more-than-usual gunk in his left eye.  See, baby boy's had a clogged tear duct since, well, he was born. We've done warm washcloths and massage, and when he was admitted to the hospital about a month ago (wow, that was a montha ago???) they had us do a week's worth of antibiotic eye ointment because the gunk turned green when he got sick. It went back to the normal color gunk until this morning.  And it was accompanied by red puffiness all over that side of his little sweet face. :(

Nana and Papa came over this afternoon, took one look at him and pretty much told us it was infected. So I went ahead and called the on-call pediatrician rather than wait for Monday like I was planning.  He felt we should get Caleb seen right away and started on treatment. 

So that means we spent our afternoon waiting at urgent care while my parents watched Grace (thank you!!!). Then, we had the pleasure (sarcasm) of administering his first dose of eye drops this evening.  Please tell me how to get a screaming baby to hold still long enough to pry his sore eye open and drop just one tiny drop directly into it...then proceed to ensure his eye stays shut for 60 seconds.  Yeah, it hasn't gone well thus far.

I'm taking him in to see our pediatrician on Monday cuz I hated the urgent care doc we saw.  She obviously didn't have pediatric experience, at least not much of it.  She couldn't hold him still to even look in his eye.  Both Ben and I had to help her hold him and she still couldn't get it open.  Then she tried to look in his mouth- ha. Not gonna happen, lady.

She diagnosed conjuctivitis merely because the .5second glance she got at his eyeball seemed to show it was red.  It's definitely a little red, but not totally blood shot or anything.  I'm just worried that it might be something else with the fact that his face was red and swollen, too. 

Oh poor little Caleb.  He's been screaming most of the night- if he's not sleeping.  I feel awful for him and just want to make it all better.  No such luck right now. We'll see how tonight goes- I think we're in for a long one.

BUT- before we took him into urgent care, he had some good moments and was able to play on his mat with Nana and Papa and show them his awesome head lifting skills!

You can sorta see the swelling in this pic- but it looks much worse in person :(

Well hey there Nana! Nice to see you down here! :)

We can't leave Gracie out of this post.  Little lady did a great job of letting us take care of the little dude when he wasn't feeling good.  She slept really well today (she is OBSESSED with her binky now. I remember when she wouldn't take it- now she wants it all the time. Uh oh).  She got a bit fussy tonight and we had some double fussy moments that are just no fun. But she's actually asleep in her crib right now (9:45pm) which is pretty good. Rockstar, Grace, rockstar!