Bron - Not good about Will getting sick from his needles. Caitlin did too. How cool with the walking - we are still waiting for that milestone and Caitlin is in noooo hurry!
We have had a rough 2 weeks but fingers crossed we are over the worst of it. To start with Caitlin got this really bad chesty cough where should would keep coughing until she vomited mucous but it was a different cough to the one she had with the croup. She would cough at night and wake herself up and then be beside herself because she couldn't get back to sleep with all the coughing so our sleep would end for the night when this happened which was usually between 1.15am & 2am.
We used the vapouriser which helped a little and I rupped baby vicks onto her chest. I ended up taking her to the doctor on the Monday (why do they always get sick on a weekend?) and he told me it was asthma which I was unsure about because I had been told that they don't diagnose asthma under 2?! Anyway I am asthmatic and she didn't sound like I usually do when I have an attack so I decided not to give her the ventolin. I just helped calm her down by sitting cuddling her to level out her breathing. The cough got a little better over the week but she was still waking up nightly for hours at a time and she was very clingy during the day to the point of getting hysterical if she was put down at all
So the first week was a killer! We were all dead tired. On the next Saturday night (Saturday week ago) her temperature went up to 39.5, the cough got worse and we were giving her panadol but it was wearing off a couple of hours before we could give her more and the temp was going right back up into the 39's. We rode out the weekend and got her back to the doctor on the Monday (different doctor) and he checked her out and she had tonsillitis so they put her on penicillin. Doc told me that yes she did have asthma and to give her the ventolin. Woke up Thursday and she was covered in a rash so back to the doctor again (3rd doctor!) and he said she was having a reaction to the penicillin. He checked her throat and the tonsillitis had cleared so he took her off the penicillan and she is now classified as having a penicillan allergy. The cough was being helped a little by the ventolin but we ended up having to give her predi-mix for 2 days which bought it back under control and now she is just having ventolin as needed. So finally after 2 weeks she has slept through 2 nights in a row and we are starting to feel a bit human again! I really hope we get through this winter unscathed!!
Caitlin has her pediatrician appointment on Wednesday, I assume that so long as he give
s her the all clear for her first 12 months (no adverse effects from being prem) then we will not have to see him again unless something major crops up.
Anyway enough of my essay typing! Hope all is well with everyone.
Prama hope your birthday was fantastic!
Jo
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