A Week of Firsts

This has been one heck of a week of firsts. First cold, first battle with the bulb syringe, first medicine, first battle with the medicine, first diaper leak (not my favorite), and first time to not quite be done using a diaper before mama took it off, (not the first time for this but the first time she did it twice in one day!) Chesley was snuffling like a little piglet Friday morning and had a tiny little heartbreaking cough so we were at the pediatrician by 9:15 am-I am a first time mama after all, waiting a day to call the doctor was not an option. She has what the doctor described as an itty, bitty, tenny, tiny, little, baby, cold. Call it what you want-my baby is sick and I don't care how small it is! Anyway, she is fine-no fever and acting just like her precious self but there is a bit of congestion, hence the need for the bulb syringe. She was ok with it the first day or two-it brought tears to her eyes but she didn't fuss- then she realized she didn't so much just have to lay still and take this abuse from her mother and that's when she began to fight back- it is a nightmare. No mother should ever have to wrestle with her 4 month old or put her in a headlock to do anything and yet I do. But she is getting better so after our first ever diaper leak- (and man let me tell you this was no trivial thing, her playmat is in the wash along with the second outfit of the day and the changing pad cover and the little pad that lays on top of it so that you might not have to wash the actual cover too often-she took out all three on three seperate occasions today), I decided to take some pics of my girl in her birthday suit-nothing like a necked baby!