Sick baby

[ailbhe]

She's sleeping better and better, but she's getting sicker and sicker. She's still not worryingly ill, but I feel very bad.

On Saturday night she vomited at bedtime and seemed fine afterwards. On Sunday she had a single episode of diarrhoea. On Monday she vomited at bedtime again. And today she had diarrhoea at about noon, and vomited at about one pm.

I feel bad because we were out in town, and I saw her lean forwards to rest her head on the bar of the buggy, and thought she was just tired. It wasn't until much later - at least 10 minutes - that I saw that she'd vomited. It was all over her clothes and the buggy and her shoes. We went into John Lewis for the cleanup, which took about an hour, and she ate. She does feel hungry after these bouts. Unless she's just been sick, she won't even eat biscuits, really.

So I cleaned her up and went to Boots and found a female member of staff to ask for vaginal dilators. They don't stock them and can't order them. I shall have to go mail order. She did offer me a urinary incontinence aid instead, but I declined graciously. I already have one and I can't use it because of the birth injuries.

And then we came home and watched a little video and she went down to sleep. Rob will be home shortly to take us to the doctor. I'm just fragile enough that I can't go alone.

(Remind me later to write about the conversation I overheard and joined in with the librarian today - we covered teenage mothers and the state of education in the nation and I was interested to learn that it's all the brown people's fault).

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Aw, poor tyke! And no fun cleaning up for mum, either :-/

Is this doctor visit for her, or another one for you?

[ailbhe]

It's for her - Rob was more comfortable having her see a doctor than not, so we're going. She's not sick enough yet to seriously worry me; if she was, I'd be able to go alone, as baby-fear outweighs doctor-fear by a Big Lot. I suffered no *personal* anxiety in the hospital with her when she was 11 weeks old and thought it was amusing to stop breathing in her sleep from time to time.

[k425.livejournal.com]

As an ex-member of the medical wossname (ex-Crool Nurse at your service) my general rule of thumb with parents was that if they were worried there was probably something going on. As a first-time mother, my general rule of thumb is that if I am worried I will share my worry with my GP, and sometimes I will ask him whether [x] is something I ought to be worried about (to date there's been nothing I've not been worried about that he thinks I ought to be). So, if your instinct isn't worrying, you're probably right, and she's got a mild bug. But if Rob is worrying, there's no harm in going to the GP, of course.

As for those brown people, well, I am led to understand that they should return whence they came. I'm not sure why Peckham and Bradford have such bad reputations, but there you go.

PS, did the nappies arrive? Or have they got stuck in the university mailing system, never to be seen again (wouldn't be the first time - one of my lecturers got a memo that was five years out of date once...)?

[helenprev.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with k425 about the mother-worry thing. So far, with all of mine, my instinct and the doctor's diagnosis have been pretty much identical!

Tim however, worries far more quickly and would have them at the doctor's about three times as often as me, if it was up to him! Thankfully he has realised that I seem to know what I'm talking about most of the time ;-)

I hope Linnea's bug clears up soon - clearing up child-sick is one of the most horrible jobs there is :-(

And *hugs* for you - just because! :-)

[nitoda]

Good luck with the doctors' visit for Linnea, hope she is soon feeling better.
I sincerely hope it wasn't the librarian (or library assistant?) who thought it was all the fault of the brown people ... we *do* have a professional code of conduct and most of us are quite well educated! ;-)

[ailbhe]

Well, she didn't *say* brown people. She said "people who come over here and their parents don't speak English and they don't help them with their homework" and stuff. More later.

[phantom_wolfboy]

Yeah, damn those Germans, anyway!

I always wonder, when I hear that "People who come over to our country and don't bother learning our ways" spiel, if that applies to our ancestors as well, who after all came over and found the country inhabited but didn't bother learning the ways of the people here.

Come to think of it, if that rule were followed, the English should be speaking Briton.

[richtermom.livejournal.com]

Poor little sick sunshine!

When squeaky gets sick it's a huge dramatic gush with repeated waves of vomit and discombobulated baby whimpers for about 24 hours, and then She's Fine. After a few days of weird digestive things, it probably isn't a bad idea to have her seen... Maybe they have something to make her feel more comfortable or to knock it out of her. Bleah.

Best of luck keeping up with the puke patrol.