A little scare...

Wednesday morning, I woke up to feed Caden and he had a red ring on his upper lip. It looked kind of like a kool-aid mustache. At first I thought that he'd scratched his upper lip. I went on our 5AM routine of making his bottle, changing his diaper, then heading downstairs to watch the news while he eats.

When he was done, I took a better look at his lip. It didn't look like a scratch mark now that I was awake.

Then I remembered that one of Holly's daycare kids had had thrush, so that got me a little worried. I took him to bed, then went back downstairs to do some research.

I had found out that redness around the mouth was not a symptom of thrush, so I was a little relieved. But, I still didn't know what it was.

NOTE: It's not too common, but thrush can be a sign of HIV in infants.

About this time, Holly appeared at the top of the stairs with her usual morning question. "How much did he take?" I told her, then I proceeded to tell her about the redness on his top lip. She told me that it couldn't be thrush because that was not a sign. I told her that I had just found that out when she called down the stairs.

She wasn't thinking anything of it at first, then she went to look for herself. She thought it looked like a rash or something, but wanted me to take him to the doctor to get it checked out. So, I agreed to not go into work so that I could take him in when the doctor's office had an opening.

This is sometime between 6:30 and 7 AM that this is being decided. So, Holly decides that she wants to be there too. She called the parents of the kids that were supposed to show up and said that Caden was going to see the doctor.

Holly called the doctor around 8:30 AM; when they opened; and they had an appointment at 10:10 AM.

By now, Caden was awake. We looked at the redness and it had lightened up a bit, but we were going to take him in just to be safe.

When we got to the doctor's office, we waited a short while before they called us back. The nurse asked the usual, "Why are you here? What are his allergies? Do we want him weighed?"

And of course we weighed him! He now weights 17 lbs. 14 1/2 oz.

When Dr. Krenzer came in, she asked us what our concern was. She then looked at Caden and said that it looks like he was sucking on his lips. She said that's all that it appears to be.

Boy did we feel stupid.

We also asked her about thrush since the other baby had had it, if she could look since we were there. She said his mouth looks fine. The whiteness on Caden's tongue just seems to be formula and nothing else.

We were relieved about that as well.




Until Next time, I continue to ask for and thank you for your prayers.