Hi Michelle. You know that is hard to say. Especially their first year of life. My daughter was the queen of teething. She would run a low grade fever with most of her teeth. And usually a runny nose if it was one of her front teeth. She was awake and fussy most nights when she teethed. I woke up many mornings exhausted with my hands glued to my hair from applying so much Ambesol to her gums to get her to sleep. As a matter of fact she just lost another one of those teeth tonight that kept me awake a good week or two when she was an infant. That stinkin’ Tooth Fairy gets all these teeth after I worked so hard on them! I can remember her getting a good cold when she was 6 months old and a bad fever, but can’t remember how we first noticed it. 8 years has almost past! My brain was fried after all those sleepless nights I swear. I think you just start to know their patterns. I can look at her now and know she is coming down with something. You get to know "the look". Usually with my daughter it has always been pale skin, and dark circles under the eyes. Even today I can tell without her telling me first she isn’t feeling well. I think God built that into us as moms. We just learn to develop it as the years go on. My motto is, you know your child better than anyone. If she isn’t her perky self, then something is going on with her. I have now read so much about reflux in infants. But I would think your ped. would pick up on something like that too. When they are infants the doc. is always checking them. I swear to you it does get easier with every year and every virus that passes. It does.

As far as the med times. Well as I have learned on here in the past, everyone is dosed differently. What works for one does not work for the other and so on and so forth. My daughter’s endo also had us  give meds. when she wakes up in the morning schedule too. It wasn’t until she was like 2 and I read on this board that a lot of people were giving the first dose early in the morning to mimic the body’s natural way of making cortisol that I asked to change it. I asked him why he didn’t have us on that schedule and he told me since she was an infant getting a feeding, and eating, schedule down pat was hard enough so he was more apt to let her get her first dose when she first woke up. I of course at the time I had her changed to this method of first dose early method. Heck I was awake myself anyway. To this day my body automatically wakes up at 5:30 am every day. But she grew fine on the "give meds when she wakes up method". I don’t know if we just got lucky or what. I couldn’t imagine trying to keep that strict med. schedule as an infant that first 6 months. Especially trying to get her to sleep on a schedule when the child rarely slept! And of course I used to give her all the meds. with milk so that really would have thrown off our schedule! So I guess I don’t know what the best answer would be for that. Boy, what help am I? Blessings to you and your babe. It will get better, and easier. I swear.