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ailbheSince we last met them, they have been hurting themselves, sleeping all night, having earache, and going to the doctor.
Linnea went to bed early, thank all the little fishes, and just after I'd settled her down Astrid fell off the bench in the dining room and bashed her mouth. She cut her lip mildly and bashed her gum quite a lot, but the bleeding stopped and she moved around cheerfully climbing on Emer's head and stuff, so I tried not to worry. Rob was extra super late home so I did Emer's bedtime except for the bed part, and we watched Maisy Mouse in Dutch until he got here.
BED. Everyone slept ok until Linnea was crying and shouting in her sleep about midnight; we woke her up and it was earache, so we did fluids and hot compresses and painkillers and she got back to sleep with a hot water bottle eventually. Then everyone slept all night.
Then this morning I got a look inside Astrid's mouth and saw her blackened gums and made a GP appointment for her. The first appointment was at 3:40 pm but the receptionist spoke to the GP who agreed to squeeze her in earlier and we got an appt at 11:55 am, which actually happened at 12:25 because the thing about GPs who squeeze babies in just "before" their lunchbreak and give everyone all the time they need for appointments is that they often run late. The GP was lovely and used her fingers instead of a stick to get a look in Astrid's mouth, though even that reopened some of the cuts and made her bleed again, and said that it's nasty but needs no treatment; if we're worried over the weekend we can take her to the out of hours service but it's probably going to be fine, and since she's on breastmilk we don't need to worry about feeding her solid food unless she feels up to eating it.
Then we visited a friend, where I started up a nice migraine and had to demand short-notice coffee. And then we came home.
Also, the power supply for this laptop no longer works at all, so I need to do something about it. It's about to die.
Linnea went to bed early, thank all the little fishes, and just after I'd settled her down Astrid fell off the bench in the dining room and bashed her mouth. She cut her lip mildly and bashed her gum quite a lot, but the bleeding stopped and she moved around cheerfully climbing on Emer's head and stuff, so I tried not to worry. Rob was extra super late home so I did Emer's bedtime except for the bed part, and we watched Maisy Mouse in Dutch until he got here.
BED. Everyone slept ok until Linnea was crying and shouting in her sleep about midnight; we woke her up and it was earache, so we did fluids and hot compresses and painkillers and she got back to sleep with a hot water bottle eventually. Then everyone slept all night.
Then this morning I got a look inside Astrid's mouth and saw her blackened gums and made a GP appointment for her. The first appointment was at 3:40 pm but the receptionist spoke to the GP who agreed to squeeze her in earlier and we got an appt at 11:55 am, which actually happened at 12:25 because the thing about GPs who squeeze babies in just "before" their lunchbreak and give everyone all the time they need for appointments is that they often run late. The GP was lovely and used her fingers instead of a stick to get a look in Astrid's mouth, though even that reopened some of the cuts and made her bleed again, and said that it's nasty but needs no treatment; if we're worried over the weekend we can take her to the out of hours service but it's probably going to be fine, and since she's on breastmilk we don't need to worry about feeding her solid food unless she feels up to eating it.
Then we visited a friend, where I started up a nice migraine and had to demand short-notice coffee. And then we came home.
Also, the power supply for this laptop no longer works at all, so I need to do something about it. It's about to die.
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