The croup

It was just a typical day when all of a sudden Noah woke up from his nap coughing. At first I thought, that's just a cough he's okay. Better thought said I should go check on him. As I ran up the stairs to his room I found him in his crib trying to cough and trying to cry and not being able to. PANIC!!! I picked him up and patted him on the back. I knew he wasn't choking on anything since he was the only thing in the crib. He was still breathing, but having a hard time. So I called Matt and work and told him he had to come home NOW, then I called the doctors office. After a few directions the comment was if it doesn't look better in 20 to 30 minutes take him to the emergency room. By this time, Matt arrived home and the suggestions were starting to work. Matt goes back to work and Noah takes a nap on my lap. When he wakes up the same thing happens again. Call Matt again and tell him he needs to leave now to come home (it was 5:00 by this time) because it was happening again. I take Noah and run across the street to my neighbors to get another "mommy" opinion and she said we needed to take him to the emergency room. He was too little to be struggling for air like that. At soon as Matt pulls in were off. We got to the back fairly quick and then got all the, is this your first child? is this the first time he has been sick? questions. Of course, we had to answer yes and he is still looking at us saying well, he doesn't have a temp, his temperament seems fine, etc, and then Noah starts to cry and cough and can't get a lot of air. The man looks at Noah and said that's the croup hold on a minute. Within 3 minutes we were put in a room. After hours of waiting and two x-rays later we were told he had the croup and to wait it out. The x-rays were to check that his air way wasn't swollen and at risk for closing. They sent us home with a few directions and now we have Noah sleeping in our room so we can get him up if the cough gets to bad. Yesterday he spent the whole day sleeping on the couch only getting up to eat. He sounds much better today, but is still trying to recover. Definitely an experience.