Poor baby Jarem

Well, it's been a long weekend with lots of cuddles and family time. Yesterday morning we were hanging out at the house and getting ready to go take Jarem to the snow for the first time. Our Target out here was having snow shipped in and we were going to take him to play in it. But as we were getting ready Eric was holding him and mentioned that he thought Jarem felt warm. He said he thought Jarem had a fever. We took his temperature and it was a whopping 101.6! WHOA! Jarem's first fever, and boy was it a fever!

We put him in the bath because I called Brittney and she mentioned that we should wait 20-30 minutes from when he woke up to take his temperature to make sure it's accurate. (Since your body temperature is higher when you're sleeping.) We put him in the bath and I went online to start doing research. We found that above 100.4 is considered a moderate fever for infants. After his bath we fed him and waited about ten minutes so he could regulate his temperature a little and found that it was still 101.5. We called our pediatrician to see what she recommended we do.

She called us back within ten minutes (Saturday, mind you - Dr. Sudha is AMAZING!) and told us to give him 1.5 droppers of Tylenol and wait it out. We gave him meds, took a nap, and cuddled. We took his temperature again four hours later and it had dropped a little. We gave him more Tylenol 4 hours later and that was basically the way our day went. He had a fever all day and either slept, ate or played with mommy and daddy. We gave him another bath before bed and decided to stay home rather than going to the Urgent Care.

He slept pretty well last night even with a fever the entire night. He's such a good boy, even when he's sick! He was somewhat fussy yesterday morning but the rest of the day he was smiles and super cuddly with us. It was kind of nice staying home the entire day as a family and just giving Jarem lots of love. We sang to him and played and he was in a pretty good mood despite his fever.

This morning his fever was down to 99.1. We're continuing with lots of cuddles and Tylenol every four hours. As long as it doesn't go up anymore we're hoping we can stay home again today and have him all better by tonight.

We missed Grammy's birthday dinner, sorry Grammy! But she brought us some of Aunt Stef's yummy brownies last night and they were amazing! Thanks Aunt Stef and Grammy! Please send some love and prayers for Jarem to make a speedy recovery.