It has been a week now. Kallie has been breathing roughly. It is not alarming yet though I wonder what is causing it.
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I see infants from poor families enduring pollution in the city. They are carried around in dirty streets, exposed to a lot of people, and subjected to the sun, the wind, and other conditions. They sleep soundly through it. They seem a bit malnourished, but these kids are hardly sickly. Their parents will not rush to the pedia at the first sign of a cough.
So why should I?
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I think there are things that everyone just has to go through. I know Kallie is still a baby hence needs all the assistance she can get. But there are things she will really have to overcome on her own. If I force things, like by letting medication overcome the phlegm for her, how will her body develop the necessary mechanisms to overcome it in the future?
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I have been reading around. The congested breathing (minus colds, cough, fever, and other symptoms) tends to be normal to infants. It can be the cool weather that affected her. Or a myriad other reasons. Even if it is a virus, we really have no choice except to wait it out.
