Ear infections
Ear infections. I don’t get them. They show up out of the blue, and I can’t do anything about them. I have tried my hardest to figure out what causes them, how to prevent them, etc. I know nothing more than I knew when they first started when Kellan was 2 weeks old. Back in January after a pretty hard week or two, I made myself a little cheat sheet. It consisted of: “At the first sign of a runny nose. . . Well, if there is NO RUNNY NOSE what do I do – it shows up out of the blue. Yes, there’s been fluid in the ear for a month or two, but what can I do about it? NOTHING!!! I cannot believe that antibiotics and surgery (i.e. tubes in the ears) are the only way to get rid of them. This not the way nature (or God) intended it to be. As a mother, as an engineer, I have to have a way to fix it. The AAP says these things: keep them out of a group care setting, breastfeed, don’t smoke, and some other things. Kellan had 4 ear infections before he was in a group setting (daycare). Noah, on the other hand, started in a group setting when he was 12 weeks old and was in daycare for longer hours than Kellan has been, and he had his one and only ear infection when he was about 21 months old. ENT – here we come.
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