You may have noticed that there have been no updates since my late night posts last Thursday. The reason is that, well, we've gotten very little sleep since that fateful night. Noah started not feeling well Wednesday around 10 PM and didn't sleep well Wed. Night. Thursday seemed like he was doing OK as he just had the diarrhea. Thursday night, though, was the start of a long weekend. Noah decided that his best routine would be to sleep for 45 minutes to an hour, then wake-up and scream for an hour and half to two hours. This cycle went on all night. However, he just still had the diarrhea.
Erin and I continued our normal routine on Friday. Then, around 11:00 AM on Friday morning, the day care provider called Erin because Noah had a 102 degree fever. Erin rushed home and took him to the doctor who diagnosed him with a virus. She didn't tell us which virus (if she even knows), just a virus. There was nothing we could really do except wait it out and give him Tylenol for the fever. Friday night continued the same scenario as Thursday night. Nobody in the house was getting any sleep.
On Saturday, Mihaela woke up with a fever and congestion and coughing (no diarrhea, yet). Noah continued his cycle. Two sick babies and two exhausted parents...what a combination. We canceled our Small Group on Sunday night and I found someone to run the sound board at church on Sunday, knowing that, even if the babies were feeling better, we would need some recoop time. Saturday night continued with the sleep 1 hour, scream for 2 hour cycle.
Sunday, things started to improve (a little bit). We took some naps. Coughing and hacking from Mihaela (but no fever) and diarrhea and less fussiness from Noah. Even though the babies were improving, we were fairly certain that they would not be better on Monday, so Erin called in sick. Sunday night, knowing that Erin was to be all alone with two sick babies, I stayed up most of the night with Noah and let her sleep. His routine shifted a little and he started sleeping about 2 hours before waking up and crying for an hour. I got a whole 5 hours of sleep total, however, it was not uninterrupted sleep.
Yesterday was a little better and we decided to keep the babies home one more day. So, I am home today with them. Erin stayed up with Noah last night so I got six hours of uninterrupted sleep last night. That is the longest and most sleep I've gotten five days. It was like heaven.
Noah still has the diarrhea. Mihaela still has a cold. Noah isn't' screaming for hours anymore. He gets fussy when he is tired and right before he fills his diaper. Anyway, you can see we've been busy...
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