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[liralen]

So I'm not having to take pain killers to eat anything today. Which is definitely progress. The toothguard is really helping, now that it's actually adjusted correctly and I didn't have any problems with it during the night, last night. Jet had a bad night, too, so it wasn't without it's own stressors. If anything I probably was grinding pretty good last night.

Jet caught an Instant Cold. Haley got it from a girl that was sick on Sunday, Haley got sick Sunday night, and she saw Jet yesterday, after his doctor's appointment, so last night, right on cue, Jet was stuffy, coughing, and unhappy.

Haley's better today, and the girl that was sick on Sunday was much better just a day or two later, so I have hope that Jet won't be completely crabby when he gets on a jet on Thursday. I can hope, can't I? Of course, with that hope is the hope that John and I don't just come down with it tonight. Bam...

Jet was really miserable last night, though, and we had him propped up in his Nest again, and John or I slept next to him and just listened to him breath. John was hearing bad wheezing things happening, which is why he was worried enough to have me take the second shift. Jet woke up at 5:30 and ate off me and then played like crazy with John. He as happy as happy could be, though his nose was running like a river.

Babies are pretty amazing. Or maybe it's just Jet, but he's cheerful in situations that would have had me really grumpy really quickly.

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[silkiemom.livejournal.com]

I don't remember how old Jet is, but is he old enough for infant cold medicine, and do you believe in using that stuff? The reason I ask is because if he's congested and flying, it might hurt his ears more. Cold medicine (like a decongestant thing) might clear him up and will also make him sleepy. I have even heard of people who give their kids cold medicine when flying, just to keep them quiet, but that seems evil. Eating and drinking can also help with pressurizing his ears. (When Bobby was almost two, Al gave him his sippy bottle full of water while the plane was descending, and told him "This will help your ears." Bobby looked at him dubiously, then tried to stick the straw in his ear.) And make sure you have extra stuff in your carry-ons. ( I don't know how many you get to bring, post 9/11.) I was once stuck in an airport with cancelled flights for so long that Bobby drank all his rice milk substitute hours before we left the airport.

Okay, that ran on for a bit. Don't mind me, I'm just Paranoid Traveller Mom. :) Have a good trip!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

So in the three other times Jet's flown, I've nursed him during take off and landing and that's kept his ears just fine. It helps that DIA is already at 5000 feet, so the 6000 ft of altitude pressure that planes are kept at make it so that the drop in pressure isn't so big on this end of the trip.

I agree about cold medicine when the kid isn't sick being kind of... well... more for the parents' convenience than the kid's comfort. We'll see what there is and probably find some tonight or tomorrow night. We have to go vote anyway, so we'll be out anyway, and it would probably help his ears. I just hadn't even thought of it because with the dry air here, if we give Jet a decongestant when he's sick here he dries up so badly that for the next week he's trying to hack up nastiness. But in Portland, he'll probably have a much easier time of it with the humidity there.

So that's a good call. thanks!!