Can you say "no fun"?

Well, as the title of my post states...this is no fun...Beau officially has his first cold. :( A few days ago, he started having a very dry little cough. He only coughed every once in a while, and at first I couldn't even tell it was a cough. Then the next day it became more frequent and more likea true cough. I watched it for the day, and of course it continued. That night while I was getting Beau into his pajamas, he let out a huge sneeze. I looked up to see that he had sneezed out a whole lot of green snot everywhere. Once we were facing both the cough and the snot, I wanted to go ahead and take Beau to his pediatrician.

So Saturday morning (really early!) we headed up to the pedi to be there for his walk-in hours. When we got there, of course Beau was asleep, so I figured he wouldn't "perform" for the Dr. so he could hear Beau's cough. Thankfully once we got back to the room, Beau woke up and let the Dr. check him out. He listened to his lungs and they were clear, Good! He looked in his ears, clear, Good! He did the poor little tongue depresser to look in his throat and he said that it looked good too. Official diagnosis: a cold in his nose. He said that it can sometimes cause ear infections, but that it looked alright for now. We are now using saline nose drops at every diaper change, sleeping with the humidifier, and he gave us a prescription for a baby version of Nyquil. We don't have to use it if we don't want to, it's just for if it starts making it hard for Beau to sleep, which thankfully hasn't been the case as of yet.

Also, while the Dr. was trying to look in Beau's ears, Beau really faught him to turn his head to the right. I have noticed that he favors turning his head to the left, he can turn it to the right he simply chooses not to. The Dr. made reference to him fighting him to turn to the right so I just went ahead and asked about it. Dr. M felt over Beau's neck and sure enough, he said that Mr. Beau has torticollis...insert sad face here! You can read more about it here. Apparently it's very common, and Dr. M wants us to go see a physical therapist this next week so we can learn some exercises that we will do to correct it. I'm sad about it, but I'm glad that we caught it early and it's totally correctable with exercises.

So mostly we are just being lazy and trying to kick this cough and snotty nose! Kolby's back to work this week/weekend and so it's just Mr. Beau and me at the house all day. Getting some extra loving on my little man. Oh, and we are trying to start putting Beau in his crib for all of his naps, it's going okay, sometimes he does great, and sometimes not...We'll just keep working on it!