Sickness?

I think Sterling has caught her first cold. She's been snortly for several days. It's been the worst when she first wakes up (when she's been laying flat for several hours), then it gets better as the day goes on.

Yesterday, she was more congested than usual and she was cranky for most of the day. She refused to be put down for more than a few minutes and she cried more than she usually does.

This morning, she was even more congested. She makes a little snorting sound when she breathes. She woke up about 6:30 and we nursed and she had a bottle, I changed her, then she fell asleep and I took her back into the bed. She slept until about 9:30, then we got up and nursed / bottled / changed again. She fell asleep again and she slept till 11:30, then repeated. Normally she has a good period of awakeness after her first morning nap, but we skipped that this morning. She wasn't awake very long until probably 3:30, but every time I tried to put her down she woke up and cried. I held her the whole morning. I tried taking her axial temperature (underarm) around noon; it was normal.

She had a happy awake time around 3:30 and I put her on her play mat and she had a good wiggle. I'll post about her wiggling prowess next.

Mike brought home some saline nose drops and we dropped some into her tiny, tiny nostrils this evening. She found the experience to be quite disconcerting, which I'm sure I would have thought as well.


Then, we got out our Nosefrida and tried to clear out her sinuses. The way this thing works is you put the blue part up to her nostril and then suck the red mouthpiece. There's a filter to prevent anything from moving all the way up through the tube, but you'd have to suck really hard (and have a lot of snot) for that to happen. We didn't get much out, but it did seem to clear a path and she's not snorting as much as she did before.