fever

wednesday afternoon ella woke from her afternoon nap with a low-grade fever. later at night she woke up and her fever was up to 102.9 degrees. we were up pretty much all night with her crying. thursday i stayed home from work to bring her to the doctor. j. was already gettting a sore throat, but elenora had no fever by the end of the day.

yesterday i worked six hours to make up for some of the time. i, too, could feel my throat getting hot, and thick. last night i made some homemade chicken soup. mmmm. here' s the recipe i made up:

3 cloves of garlic and half an onion, finely chopped.

4 carrots, four celery stalks, one fennel bulb, three large yellow potatoes, a can of diced tomatoes (with the juice) and a package of chicken breast that i diced.

2 large boxes of chicken stock.

saute the garlic and onion, then add the chicken and cook the outside.

add the chopped veggies.

add the chicken stock and potatoes.

add the can of tomatoes.

salt and pepper to taste.

cook until the potatoes and veggies are the desired temperature.

(this makes a huge pot... i think it's safe for luke to eat.)

today j. and i are pretty sick. it's a day i'd like to just stay in bed for, but i have to take care of elenora still.

elenora has been such a good little trooper. she's still been taking good naps and going to bed well and sleeping well at night. the only thing she really hates is the nasal aspirator. but if i don't use it she can't breathe while i nurse her. that girl sure can squirm when i get out the nasal aspirator!

i'm still getting up with her around one in the morning and rocking and feeding her, but she always accepts being put back in her crib after. early in the morning, like at five or six, she always wakes up and i go get her and bring her in with us. that way we all get to sleep some more.

but should i be feeding her at night still? other babies her age are sleeping through the night. should i not go to her and let her cry for however long it takes? i only go to her when she cries for more than a few minutes and when the cries are getting louder instead of softer. but am i reinforcing a night waking habit? should i not go get her in the morning and instead let her figure out how to get back to sleep?