Growing Pains

Ah the pains a growing family goes through. I just didn't expect to feel them so fast. On Wednesday Aprill 22nd our daughter was born, by Friday the 24th her older brother had a consistent fever. He has a history of ear infections and since the fever wasn't spiking we thought it would pass. We were fairly germ disciplined, but nothing crazy. He was around his sister and touched her a few times as well as a couple kisses on her head. Well his fever didn't go away and finally on Monday we got him into the doctor....

They said he had croup, an upper respitory infection and shouldn't be in the same room as his sister. Now this put us in a real situation, we had only a few options in order to avoid any further exposure for our precious newborn daughter.

So at just after 5:30 p.m. yesterday night we packed a bag for him and me to stay at my wife's parents house. Only 5 days into our daughter's life and I was already going to be spending the night away. This was a very difficult situation for us, but we knew that it is far better to place it to safe than to risky. As my wife and I realized the only choice we could make, our hearts dropped. So far she is showing no signs of having caught anything, thank God.

Meanwhile my son has developed that awful croup cough.

More to come, as well as the story of the amazing journey that brought her to us.