It's 2am and my stomach is clenched and I can't sleep.
Last night, I was watching a news item about whooping cough. There's an epidemic at the moment, and dh and I both had our boosters recently to make sure Tom is protected. The news item was just awful - this lovely little baby girl died, as have three other babies over the last year, and they also showed lots of other babies who were ill with it.
Well, Tom has had a cold the last few days, and yesterday developed a cough. Overnight it has developed into a horrible catarrhal cough that had him waking up and vomiting about fifteen minutes ago. It's not constant, it just comes in spurts. And he sounded just like those poor little babies on the news item, and now I'm freaking out that he's got whooping cough. He has started going to daycare for a couple of hours a week so I could do a freelance job, and I'm pretty sure he picked up the 'cold' there.
He's only had one lot of vaccinations (due for his next lot this week) and I read that the vaccination doesn't offer any protection until after the second dose, not even to mitigate the infection.
Tomorrow I'm taking him to the doctor to get him some antibiotics and a swab to see if it is pertussis. And I'm cancelling his daycare booking. And I'm holding him close to me in bed tonight and crying because what if I've killed him by sending him to daycare?
So tomorrow I'm going to insist on the specified antibiotic, even if they aren't sure that's what it is, since the coughing sounds so much like whooping cough, with the vomiting afterwards, and hopefully that will spare him the worst of it. The doctor's is open in six hours and i'll just go straight in.
Terrified my baby might have whooping cough
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I hope it's just a cold. Whatever it is at least you've picked it up early.
Sending you all my love and warmth at this time and wishing your little boy a speedy recovery.
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