Allergies?

Lydia has had a dry cough and (recently improved) runny nose ever since Sophie came home. She first had these symptoms a couple weeks before my due date as some of you may recall, and I was almost certain that I would get sick, but strangely and thankfully enough, I didn't. Well, Lydia stopped coughing and the nose stopped running soon before I delivered, but came back again about a week later. I honestly didn't think much of it because I used to have a lingering cough, so thus the stalling of the doctor's visit. When we finally went, the doctor said that even though it was allergy season, it didn't seem that Lydia had allergies and she really couldn't determine what was bothering the kid.

Regardless, per the doctor, we tried Claritin for a week, but since that didn't seem to help much, we are on to prescription medicine now. I really hope it helps because Lydia has been waking up at least a couple times every night coughing or upset, plus, she's been waking up at 6:30 AM now. For now, it's not too bad with my mother-in-law in town and is helping watch Lydia in the mornings, but when she leaves next week, Trung will be suffering since he usually has the morning shift with Lydia. Hopefully Lydia's sleeping schedule will return back to normal very soon and we can be one big happy family once again.