Buzz is out.

Finally, we have rest.  Day five of this latest teething episode has proved to be most miserable for Mr. Reagan.  He does not want to sleep and the past few nights he woke up about every half hour screaming.  You can only give a little guy so much tylenol and ibprofin.  After trying on four separate occasions to get my yawning son to nap today, I gave in to his cries and screams.  But about 8:45 this evening, he was three sheets to the wind and is snoring rather loudly next to me.  Unfortunately next to me means in my bed so Ben might have to endure the twin bed that I have slept in the past few nights as I have no intentions of disturbing this little chain saw.  

On a good note his fever did not return today and we saw those feisty little teeth popping through on the top (eye teeth and molars) so we are praying an end is in sight.  With this many days of goopy noses, fevers, no sleep and extreme crankiness, my first instinct is to run to the doctor.  But when you take a step back and look at him, nothing is wrong.  When I talked to Reagan's chiropractor today, he said that teething can take much longer than we think and can lead to goopy noses, no sleep, cold/flu like symptoms, sore bottoms, fluid in the ear and all the other things that a mom's instinct says go to the clinic.  But thankfully we have been able to hold out and are squinting at a little light in the way end of the tunnel.  Moral of the story is (don't keep a very ill child from the doctor) but think twice before running to the clinic because there is more than likely nothing they can do when the underlying culprit is teeth.  Thank you Dr. Brandan for saving me a co-pay and an antibiotic that Reagan didn't need.  And thank you Dr. Darrin for having to listen to me and telling me I'm not crazy!  Chiropractors do way more than yank your back into place, believe me, if you don't have one, get one.  

Please don't misunderstand me.  If my child is truly sick, we go to the doctor.  If I don't know, I call our moms and I call our chiropractors.  I am learning that we are all prescription happy in our society of needing a quick fix to a problem and many times medications do no good or can do more harm than good.  But there are times when they are absolutely necessary and we have been in that boat too.  They key is to understand what time it is.  No one said being a mommy was easy!