The evening of December 19th, Justin woke up during the night and then the next night (Sunday night/Monday morning) he was up again. Bruce declared that he was coughing too much and told me that I needed to take Justin to the doctor since I had a vacation day for Monday (the 21st) already scheduled. I thought that it was silly to get him into the doctor as he had the cough for some time and other than waking up in the middle of the night, he was fine.
I was able to get in to the doctor for a 10:45 appointment. Imagine my surprise when the doctor says that he has bronchitis and a double ear infection! I felt like a bad mother, again, because I wasn't even going to take him to the doctor. They gave him a breathing treatment in the doctors office and then they sent me to the hospital to have a chest x-ray and have blood drawn. My sister Carla works in the Lab, and when she seen what we were there for, she refused to draw Justin's blood. Luckily he tested negative for RSV and Whooping Cough.
Much to my dismay, Justin has now taken to waking up during the night to eat. I always get up with him so that he doesn't wake his brothers up, but I think that he is healthy enough that I need to stop that bad habit of eating in the middle of the night. I am going to have to let him cry and hopefully if he wakes his older two brothers, they will fall asleep on the couch. Justin is old enough to cry himself to sleep at night, so I need to let him cry.
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