Up yours, as it were...

[ailbhe]

I inserted a suppository and was treated to a violent fountain of green poo with the suppository surfing the crest of the wave. So I inserted another one, pinched the buttocks together, and got the fountain without the surfer. The victim was heartbreakingly tolerant of it all, and I will recover someday.

I can't believe I did that to my daughter. To anyone's daughter. To anyone at all, in fact.

The good news is, Emer is now sleeping sweetly with a temperature of about 37.5C, and I have had a bath which relieved my congestion and earache. We have all eaten (sausages, eggs, beans, rashers of bacon, toast, orange juice, and tea - quick and nourishing) and Emer has started keeping down more feeds than not.

I've done a load of coloured laundry, a load of whites, and a load of nappies, and folded all the clean, dry nappies ready for use. Rob has set another load of nappies to soak, and emptied all the landfill and recycling bins in the house. He's also sent his mother a message not to phone at midnight and reassembled the floor-covering foam alphabet jigsaw. Next up is undecorating the tree, which was pulled down by Linnea in the night, and dumping it outside the door; we can take it to be mulched on Tuesday.

I wish you all a restful 2007 with as much excitement as you will enjoy and as much sleep as you need. And I strongly recommend that those of you with babies beg, borrow or steal an ear thermometer.

Comments

[k425.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad it's done the trick - suppositories aren't much fun, but they work, often far quicker than oral drugs. That's why in a lot of countries they're the route of choice. I prefer the choice, myself, though, since, as you've discovered, they're not the easiest to administer!

I hope 2007 dawns less frenetically for you and stays that way throughout.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Oh my.

Poor Emer. Poor Ailbhe.

Surfers are teh bad!

But I'm glad to read that her fever is broken :)

That makes it worth it. Right? :/

N.

PS:

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year. May your year be free of surfers on green poo!

N.

Re: PS:

[ailbhe]

It's the invasion of her body that bothers me, not the poo. I'm USED to poo. I just make sure to sleep on the bits of sheet it didn't reach, until daylight when I can launder.

But yes, that's a good New Year Wish :)

[tafagirl.livejournal.com]

That's why in a lot of countries they're the route of choice.

Like in Germany - the vast majority of meds administered to kids are in suppository form!

[nwhyte]

Yeah, it's not easy to do the suppository thing, but it turns out to be easier than the alternatives...

[ailbhe]

How on earth do parents cope with it? I only did it because oral medication wasn't an option, and I can't imagine inflicting that on her again if she was able to swallow oral meds.

[ailbhe]

Oral medication has never made me feel like a rapist.

[mssociallyinept.livejournal.com]

Eep, sounds nasty!

Ty's been really bad with the cold recently, wont sleep either. But there's nowt I can do about it really 'cept suffer the sleepless nights with him, as he's only a month old and apparently there's nothing you can give them that young.

Wishing you all the best for 2007 too!

[k425.livejournal.com]

The same way parents and doctors in many countries do rectal temps rather than forehead/underarm/ear. It may be more accurate but I don't like the effect it has on the child.

[ailbhe]

I didn't like sticking something up someone's arse nonconsensually. The fountains of poo were just a bonus.

[ailbhe]

If a baby that young is sick, there's not much one can do without medical advice, no - but then, the suppositories are prescription only here anyway.

Happy New Year :)

[alison.hemuk.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Poor all of you. Hope you ended up having a pleasant evening after all that.

Don't know whether you've seen my email, but there's no ERAPA on Friday so I've invited people round here - be good to see you :)