Kylie has been real fussy lately; she has been crying a lot when we try to put her down for naps, waking up in the middle of the night and crying a lot, things like that. For the most part we were chalking it up to her teething and the fact that she also has a slight cold, in addition to these things she also had a pretty bad diaper rash which we also contributed to the teething and her cold.

However, the other day Tiffany noticed that Kylie was playing with her ear a little more than usual so she decided to call the doctor and see what they thought. They suggested that it might be an ear infection and that we should bring her in, so that’s what we did. I brought her into the doctor’s today and it turns out that at that time she had a 103 degree fever (we had been aware of the fever as well and thought it was also due to the teething, we were also giving her Baby Tylenol for that) and, as it turns out, an infection in her right ear. So we now have some amoxicillin to help take car of that.

Other than the ear infection and the slight cold though, Kylie is doing very well. She is slightly under 19 pounds and still a very happy baby (she was not happy when the Nurse Practitioner checked in her ears). Her next doctor’s appointment, coincidentally, is on next Tuesday, so maybe I will have an even more detailed status report after that.

I had mentioned earlier that we were aware of Kylie’s fever and were giving her Baby Tylenol for it, well it turns out that we were not giving her enough. We had been giving her .4 ml and as it turns out, based on her weight she can have literally 3 times that amount (1.2 ml), so that would explain why it never really seemed to help her all that much. Also, when we took her temperature using a digital thermometer and checking under her arm (axillary method) her temperature was never higher than 100 degrees, the nurse had taken a core reading (taken rectally). In addition to this we have been giving her PediaCare for her cold, and the nurse practitioner said that at Kylie’s age that stuff really doesn’t do much for their symptoms (runny nose and such), I thought that was kind of interesting.