Pins and Needles

Baby Girl just coughed in her sleep. I was sure she was going to puke. We are in the car, driving back from a great evening with our friends and their new baby. We left at bedtime, thinking the kids would be good to sleep on the way home and then go to bed and sleep well when we get there. 

But, from the back seat came those adrenaline-provoking coughs, and I was sure we were going to have to pull over and change her clothes, clean off her face, hands and car seat as best we could, and bathe her when we get home at 9pm. 

Luckily she is fine, for now. But this is what goes through our minds every time we hear that little toddler cough come from her bedroom. Immediately our brains rewind over everything she's eaten in the last 72 hours to see if anything could have possibly been contaminated. 

Eosinophilic esophagitis builds up gradually, so after she has been corn-clean for awhile it won't be as terrifying. Her esophagus will heal, and future small corn exposures will not have such a dramatic effect - at least in our experience. But until then, we are on pins and needles.