Babies Born March 2007 #12

[Karina]

Aww Cass, poor little Oskar! Claire had croup last week. So sad when theyre sick like that and they get upset about it, then the coughing gets worse. We went to the hospital and they saw us straight away (no one else was waiting, but they said they would have seen us straight away anyway, because its a small child). Of course, once we got to the hospital she just wanted to play. Good to hear Oskars much better now.

Cassblob, hope the op goes well. My mum is getting her gall bladder out in about 2 weeks as its been causing her issues too. I'm sure you'll feel so much better once its gone.

Claire had ner needles. First one she didnt react, the second one she made a little cry and the third one she was NOT HAPPY! But she got over it pretty quickly and was happy by the time we were out of the doctors surgery.

We got our new washing machine delivered today. Its very nice and I can finally wash all claires nappies and our clothes! I just have to store my old washing machine for the next 5 weeks until the council cleanup happens and I can put it out on the side of the road.

We are struggling to get Claire to eat at the moment. Only things she will eat are: yoghurt, cheese (has to be shredded tasty cheese), rice and pasta (has to be plain otherwise she wont touch it) and sometimes apple. Argh driving me insane! She used to love banana but now she wont eat it.

[Alipralli]

Hi all!

Well, we finally had Emy's party today, combined with our house warming party, and it was good! We all had heaps of fun, and now there is waaaaaaaaaay too much food! One of the girls from work came with her 6 weeks old baby, and I haven't seen him since he was 2 days old, and he made me sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo clucky!

Anyway, I am completely knackered now, and maybe a little drunk, so I'm gonna go.

Cass, I hope that Oscar gets better soon!

[richelle_84_2004]

Hi everyone,

Karina, I am having the same thing with Kailee at the moment. She is living on yoghurt, wholemeal bread, peas and rice crackers. Although I'm not too worried since she is still having 3 bottles and getting the vitamins from that.

Cass (blob) good luck with the surgery, I'm sure both you and Izzy will be fine!

Cass (ozzie) poor little Oskar, I hope he is feeling much better soon!

Its official, I hate daylight savings. We now wake up an hour earlier than normal. The worse thing about it is I am picking up extra hours with work and so working later and more often and still having to get up early. Nanna naps are now back in fashion in my house. I had my first Saturday off in so long today and we went out for lunch with plans to go clubbing in Sydney tonight since its been well over 2 years since a good night out, but we are far too tired after our trip out for lunch and so hubby has fallen asleep in recliner and I am on here with toothpicks holding up my eyelids! So speaking of which I had best get to bed. Take care all and hope everything improves!

[Karina]

Richelle, claire LOVES peas too. I'm getting quite frustrated actually as I throw away so much food. Hope you got a nice good sleep last night.

Ali, yay that the party went well! I saw pics of a friends newborn today and just the pictures made me clucky. I love tiny little squishy newborns, and dont they smell sooo nice? lol

DH is going away for the next 3 days for uni. He is taking the car which means I am going to have to walk Claire to Daycare in the morning and catch a bus in to the city for work. Then I have to get my parents to pick up Claire from daycare as I cant get there in time. If I want to leave work early, I have to start early, but if I do that I have to drop her off at daycare early whihc I cant do as it wont be open! Argh! It absolutely poured rain today and I'm just hoping that doesnt happen tomorrow! I wish I had known about DHs uni thing. He only told me at the last minute!

sorry for my whinge.

[Catastrophic]

Thanks. I hope all goes well! I'm quetly shytting myself! But I keep remembering that im going to feel so much better after the op with no more attacks! ! !

I hope Oskar is feeling better!

Shell - I love watching izzy do that too! Shes jsut so facinated with books!

Karina - Izzy's turning fussy with her food also. . . she won't eat in the mornings. no matter what i do. we though it was because we were giving her her milk first, so we tried to give her breaky first wouldnt have a bar of it. so we give her her milk and try feed her while she drinking (taking hte cup away from her mouth and getting a spoonful in) but she won't do it... tried giving her milk then wating half an hour, this rarely works! we've swapped cerel nothing workds! I just dont know what to try... Except give her more for morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner...

heres hoping it doesnt RAIN!

Ali sounds like u had a great party

Richelle - Yea agree day-light savings sucks! When i was living in adelaide i HATED it. Like who wants to get up at 5am and it still be pitch dark, then cant go to sleep till 9-10om at night because its too light! so crappy loL!

Karina i know what you mean! The cluckiness is sooooo bad when you see a new born. I turn to izzy and say cant you go back to that just for one day! lol!

Well Izzy has 8 teeth now! and loves chopping away on things~!

I better go gotta get ready for my pre-op appointment! Going to be so bored for three hours!

Caio~!

[Karina]

Ok, this is a long one.

Just want to say how annoyed I am at daycare and the stupid medical centre doctor I went to when I couldnt get to my normal doctor (my normal GP is a 15 - 20 minute drive away, but I insist on seeing him because he is such an excellent doctor, no nonsense and straight to the point and I have been seeing him forever so I know and trust him. He has been a doctor for like 30 years and I went to school with all his kids) He is also a Paediatrician and Obstretrician so he knows lots of stuff. He is excellent with Claire.

Anyway, my poor little girl! She has had tonsilitis this week! She went to daycare on monday, I rang in the middle of the day to tell them what time my sister was going to pick her up, and also asked how Claire was. I was told she was fine - had morning tea and a nap and was happy. My sister picked her up from daycare at 4pm (I couldnt pick her up as DH had the car and he was 2 hours away). The kids were all sitting outside in the freezing cold and Claire was not happy. My sister took Claire home and found that she had a high temperature. Daycare told my sister Claire had been not well all day (why didnt they tell me this when I called at like 12pm??). My sister gave Claire some panadol and she had a nap. Woke up clingy, grumpy and wouldnt eat. I stayed at home with her next day. She just wasnt well enough to go to daycare.

I took her to the doctor on wednesday as there was no improvement. I just went to some random medical centre doctor, I couldnt get to our usual doctor as DH still had the car and was 2 hours away. I told Random doctor all Claires symptoms and she didnt even check Claire - she just told me that there must just be something going around, just give her some panadol and nurofen and she'll be right. I just sat there teling the doctor "um sorry, thats unacceptable. She is 13 months old and its fairly obvious she isnt well - she has a temp of 39.1, she wont eat, wont drink, is very clingy, has diarrhea.. and look at all the snot coming out of her nose. I want you to check her properly. You havent even touched her". So the doctor has a quick look in her ears and throat, checks her temperature, feels her neck. Claire coughs on the doctor. The doctor goes 'euwwwww' and runs back to her desk and gets out an antiseptic stuff and starts cleaning herself like crazy (gosh if you're that scared of germs why are you a doctor??). Sends me on my merry way telling me just give her panadol and nurofen (she was telling me to give her Panadol every 4 hours and Nurofen every 4 hours, but to time them so she is getting something every 2 hours) I was slightly disturbed by that as it doesnt sound healthy to me.

I was walking out of the doctors and the receptionist tells me 'oh thats $50' WTF??? Why didnt you tell me that when I came in? If I had known you dont bulk bill, I would have walked the extra 15 minutes to the other doctor who does bulk bill. So I paid the $50 because I couldnt be bothered standing there and arguing and I just wanted to take Claire back home. Took her home, gave panadol. Temp still 38.8 after Panadol.

DH came home.Went to our usual GP. He looked at her throat, straight away said that it was definately tonsilitis. Gave us a script for Amoxil. 6 hours later, we could already see a huge improvement. I'm just annoyed that even after telling the other doctor Claires symptoms, I still had to prompt her to even look at Claire. She was just looking at me like I was a total idiot and trying to tell me to just fill her up on panadol and nurofen. Just because I am a mum, doesnt mean I'm stupid. I know when my daughter is not well. I am glad I got a second opinion from my GP. Wont be going to the medical centre ever again. And OMG, if Claire was not well during the day (she seemed fine in the morning) why wouldnt Daycare call me? She had conjunctivitis last week, and daycare didnt even call me and when DH went to pick Claire up, he got told off because she has conjunctivitis. WTF didnt you call one of us?? You have all our numbers. ARGH these are CHILDREN we're talking about.

So, thats my rant. BUT I am happy now because Claire is much much better. She is actually eating now, sleeping, not constantly crying or clingy, no more diarrhea, and her temperature is back to normal. My GP also told me not to worry too much about Claire being on the small side. The ECHN keeps telling me "oh she is very underweight and small. " and she keeps on trying to scare me into thinking it is because Claire is 'sick'. She is just small like her mummy. I was the same as a baby.


Cassblob, I hope all is ok now after your surgery.

umm well its time to go eat. Hope you all had a better week than I did.

[richelle_84_2004]

cass, i've been told that so long as the bubs are drinking their milk/formula whatever they are on, not to stress too much when they won't eat because they are still getting nutrients etc. Kailee refuses to eat breakfast at the moment also, I am just giving her some bread sticks and cheese or yoghurt and she seems happy with that.

Karina, you poor thing! What a stressful week! its lucky you did get the second opinion. I don't understand why more doctors don't listen to mums, they know their bubs! the one time I had to take Kailee to hospital the doc actually said, you're her mum and you know what she is like, and i understand this isn;t normal for her but on assessment she really is ok. it was nice to not bet treated like a paranoid first time mother!

I'm having similar problems with not being able to get a straight answer out of the doc at the moment. Kailee is still always getting constipated, she is off cows milk, has plenty of fibre and water, the last 2 days i have had to give her a suppository the poor thing has been so upset. And she is having this lactulose stuff that is meant to soften the poo, yeah right its done nothing. I'm going to get a referral to go see the paediatrician and see if maybe she might listen to me. I can't put her thru that for much longer. do you think its worthwhile taking a video of when she is trying to poo etc so they see what I am talking about??

Sorry for the long post!! Hope the surgery went well Cass and you feel ok!