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

[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...)?