Problem Solving

This is what my sweet baby Lena looked like the past two days. Big ol' tears and lots and lots of crying. She had cut 2 teeth since last weekend and appears to be working on a couple more. So, I just assumed that all the crying was from teething. But then it got worse. She basically cried from 9pm Wednesday until 10am Friday. She would stop to drink a bottle, but then start crying again. I finally decided that something else was going on. Since Dylan had strep throat last week, I thought that maybe she'd caught those germs. Rather than wait out the weekend to see if she got better, I took her to the pediatrician.

While getting ready to leave for the Dr, I started to think back on the previous 24 hours a bit. First I thought back to around 12pm when I picked Dylan up from preschool. While getting Lena out of her carseat, she screamed bloody murder. She didn't quit crying the whole time we were packing Dylan up. She continued crying through her lunch and then her nap. Upon waking, she did some more crying. Last night, she would not crawl. When I changed her into her pajamas, she screamed. Overnight, she would not roll over in bed. Instead she would just get stuck on her side and scream. This morning, she screamed while trying to push herself into a sitting position. Then screamed again while getting dressed and into the carseat. So, I decided to mention it to the Dr kind of as a side note. Not really thinking it would be at all related.

Well, after some observation and manipulation of Lena's arm, the Dr confirmed what was in the back of my head. You know...those thoughts that try to form, but you can't really complete them. Lena had a dislocated elbow! The Dr gave her some Advil and then popped that arm back in it's place. Lena cried while she was touching her arm and then stopped as soon as it was back to normal. Me? Yeah, I sobbed for about 10 minutes. It killed me to see my baby in so much pain! I'm just so glad I had the side note thought. Poor little thing.