Jenni is feeling better!

Well, we did have another long night last night. Not only is Jenni still on Hong Kong time but everytime she would go to sleep she would only stay asleep for about an hour to two hours and then when awake she would only stay awake for about an 1 hour and start getting very fussy and need to sleep again. On Sunday morning she was refusing to eat or take any formula. She also seemed to really struggle to breathe. So now we were really worried. We called the Dr. and he suggested to take her to the ER. Rich and I struggled with this as she had been through so much already. In the last two weeks she went from a orphanage, 2 hotel rooms, several airplane flights and now a new home. All I could think about was how the poor thing would have to sit in the ER for hours and then have strange people poking and proding her. We decided to wait until she woke up from her nap and see how she was feeling. If still no bottle than we would take her in. When she woke up from her nap her breathing seemed less labored and she took a full bottle so we decided to wait it out until Monday when she could get into the Dr. She did pretty well Sunday afternoon than once again was very sick in the middle of the night. We did two hot steamy showers which seem to help her breathing and used the humidifer. Rich and I took turns staying up with her and finally at 7:00am, I went into the nursery to find daddy and baby sleeping side by side on the double bed sound asleep. It was too cute. I wish I would have taken a picture but after only 2 hours of sleep I couldn't even muster the engery to find the camera to take the picture. We did go to the Dr. this afternoon and yes it is croup and also they think she has an allergy to the new formula that we had to change her to in China. They put her on steriods and antibiotics and had us change her to a soy based formula. She is now sleeping and her breathing is sooooo much better!! We are hopeful that she will have a good sleep tonight without waking up to cough so much. She did really pretty well at the Dr. she is normally so shy about letting other people hold her and she went to one of my favorite nurses, Shannon and even let Shannon take her to the back without me to show her off to all of Dr's and nurses. She even let our family dr and friend, Dr. Woodruff, hold her. It is almost like she knew they were going to try and help her. She got a little fussy when the P.A. tried to listen to her breathing but otherwise did pretty good considering she didn't feel very well. We are hopeful to start getting into a better routine tomorrow and I need to go into to work for a few hours so hopefully her anxiety of me being out of her sight will be less if she is feeling better. She loves her daddy and calls for him in the night but if I am in the room she prefers me to hold her. I truly think some of this is insecurity is from being in a new home again and being sick. Rich has been trying to give her all of her bottles, change her diapers and get her out of the crib when she awakes to help with the bonding between the two of them but she still gets fussy with him. I know she is struggling with the changes in life and is probably grieving for her nannies. She often will say Na Na and we wonder if this is what she called her nanny. The bonding between all three of us is getting better with each day!

Terri