Things went from bad to worse when she contracted RSV, which made it difficult for her to breathe and has made her more likely to develop asthma. Her bout with RSV meant 2 over-night trips to the ER, breathing treatments and lots of prodding and poking. A lot of the medical care was emotionally harder on mommy and daddy, but the doctors and nurses at Le Bonheure Children's hospital were fantastic and we all made it out OK.
Receiving a breathing treatment at Le Bonheure East. Her Oxygen saturation level was 83%. It took a few treatments to get it back up to an acceptable 95%. She also has 104 fever and we discovered she was anemic.
This medieval torture device is actually a baby's chest x-ray machine. The nurse told us to expect her to scream but she won't be in any pain. She did not make a peep. What a champ.
Here she is in her tiny hospital gown during a separate visit to the ER.
All these illnesses meant Lexi didn't gain any weight during her 9th month, despite a normally healthy appetite.
STATS
Weight -- 18 pounds 7 ounces (48th percentile)
Height -- 27.5 inches (50th percentile)
TRICKS:
Lexi is the queen of babble. She says "dadda" and also started saying daddy. She calls our dog "Jackie" or something like it. Most days it sounds like she's just saying "Jack."
She usually calls me "Tasha" or "Tata" and out of the blue on Valentine's Day she said the sweetest thing - mamma. She uses it sparingly, which makes it so much sweeter when she does say it. She claps and started waving "bye bye" but only when she's in a good mood. She's cruising, holding on to furniture to walk around the house and has gotten so good a crawling, we have to run to keep up with her.
Lexi's first visit to the aquarium. We made the 5 hour trek to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga.
Her first snow day. We got 6 inches and all the kids went out to play.
