Drinking slowing way down.

Truman's lack of drinking is really starting to worry us. Today, he took only 5 ounces by bottle, all of which were a real struggle. And, although he nursed three times, all were lackluster nursing sessions. I've read up on the signs of dehydration, and he doesn't seem to be showing them, but that only addresses the issue in the short term. We're really starting to think he's going to need intervention in some way.

We think he might be a little under the weather since Friday, but this decline in drinking has been going on for several weeks now. He had fever somewhere between 101 and 103 on Friday depending on whether we used an electronic ear thermometer on an under the arm one, and his breathing was a little labored. We gave him Tylenol for 24 hours, and he seems to have fully recovered. The fever was high enough that we talked to ones of the nurses at his clinic about when we should take him to the ER. Thinking about returning to a hospital was not fun to consider. Fortunately, the Tylenol worked and the fever came down fairly quickly.