Sick babies make my heart hurt...

There are so many sick babies in our area right now and unfortunately Riley is one of them. She had a mild cough early in the week and we thought nothing of it until I realized Tuesday that there was an RSV breakout at her daycare. I quickly pulled her out and got her tested and luckily she tested negative but we decided to keep her out of daycare the rest of the week just to be on the safe side. Wednesday her cough and breathing got worse and she started running a fever...Thursday she got even worse and I took her back into the doctor and they didn't hear anything in her lungs but decided to do a chest xray just to be on the safe side. Riley did so well with the xray and just let me hold her still so she didn't have to be strapped down in this horrific contraption. They even had a tiny little lead mat to cover up her reproductive organs...it was kinda cute! We were expecting to get the results Thursday afternoon as any parent would and apparently the radiologist had more important things to do and left before reading the results. Thursday evening was rough...her temperature spiked and she was breathing very rapidly. We were very close to taking her to the ER but managed to get her temp down and her breathing more manageable. She woke every hour last night as she is very uncomfortable between coughing, sneezing, and running a fever. We found out this morning that she has viral pneumonia...poor thing. She is doing much better this morning as she watched some cartoons while I tried to get a few moments of sleep in. Her fever is coming down and staying down without motrin/tylenol for now and she is taking fluids well. She is not eating and if you know Riley she LOVES to eat...a true sign that she is sick if she passes on food. We are hoping that last night was the worst but we are keeping a close eye on her. Please pray for all the sick babies out there...RSV is like an epedemic in Little Rock right now among other things.

Here's some pics we took while were staying home with her before she got really sick...we had a lot of fun!

Reading books...

Putting on a show...

Cleaning out the cabinets...

I'll keep you updated on our little Riley!