It Was Inevitable

So,

The little guy got sick for the first time yesterday. He was a little bit grumpy on Sunday and then a bit more grumpy yesterday. And Jack is not a grumpy boy. He's usually very mellow. My sister, his "nanny", said that he had been pulling at his ears a little bit, but when we got home, he wasn't doing that. We took his temperature and it was 103.3. We called after hours care and they said to bring him in, so we took the first non regular check up visit to the doctor's office. We thought we might dodge this until Jack went back into a daycare center, but not so. Looks like he has the beginnings of an ear infection (one of his ears apparently much worse than the other). Bummer. They gave him a shot of antibiotic and sent us home with some and we gave him some infant Tylenol. At first, when we tried to put him to bed, he was screaming, crying and just not having it. He wouldn't calm down until I picked him up. I know somethings wrong when he's like this because my baby is a sleeper and usually has no problem going down. Well, after a while of him not going to sleep, we decided to put a couple of pillows under his mattress to raise it a little (as I read on the internet this may help with some babies). Well, he was either very confused by it or it worked because he fell asleep after that. I had to go in a couple of times to give him more infant Tylenol and he fussed a couple of other times, but for the most part, not so bad. At the beginning of the night, I thought I wouldn't get any sleep, but he did well. He had no other symptoms, which is good, and this morning his temperature went down to 99.1. So hopefully with the antibiotics, he will get better quickly. It's so very sad to see him in pain. I don't like it at all.