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Dormouse

Poor Jack

My DS1 had a similar thing once - I phoned NHS Direct (this was at night as well - why do they always get worse at night?!) who told me it was croup. He was coughing and wheezing really horribly, and their doc's advice was a steamy bathroom and Medised. Don't know if you've used Medised before, but I find it great compared to normal Calpol etc. It contains paracetamol and an antihistamine, which helps them breathe better and helps them sleep. It certainly helped DS1 loads.

The thing with croup though is that it's supposed to pass really quickly. The worst bit for DS1 lasted just one night.

Good luck - hope tonight will be not too bad.

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Thanks Dormouse, yes I have heard of medised, I might just pop next door again and see if I can borrow some for tonight, he can have another dose of something after 10pm.

Poor chap woke again 10 mins ago, its just cuddles cuddles and more cuddles. He doesn't want to be awake, he is so tired, but he needs comfort as he sounds soo crap!!

I just wish I could take it away from him, he's so tiny and helpless when he's coughing and crying at the same time.

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I'll have to make do until the morning, next door have all gone to bed, they came back from a few days away earlier on and must be knackered. Typical! I should have gone around earlier, I know they wouldn't have minded me borrowing it, they've offered it before and we're are always feeding their cat for them when they go away.

I'll buy some tomorrow, the morning after the storm.

Dormouse

It is horrible when they're poorly, and you do feel like you'd give anything to take their pain and discomfort away. This is the rubbish bit about being a parent, it's not nice at all.

Becles

Sorry to hear Jack is poorly.

Has he got a temperature? If he has, and it's quite high, I would call the doctor out and get him checked again.

I'm sure the doctor would rather be called out and put your mind at rest than have you worrying all night.

If you have any baby nurofen in the house, you can give that as well as the paracetomal. The double dose of painkillers might knock him out for a little while.

Hope he feels better soon.

heather38

kennedy is ill at the moment as well, she has a streaming cold, but she sucks her thumb and can't do it atm as her sinuses are blocked and she can't breathe. i think she is teething again. and she fell over yesterday in the kitchen, and wacked her face on the floor, she cut her eye and gave herself a black eye! she looks like she's been in a fight.
worst thing is it's her birthday on saturday and she will look rough in the pictures!
poor wee thing

SusanCarter

Sorry to hear about all the ill babies. I usually find when I have a cough that it's much worse at night so it doesn't suprise me that Jack's is worse at night. If you are worried, you can always call out of hours as then they can decide whether to see you and in my experience they prefer to see a baby and find there's nothing wrong than the other way round.

I've been making fruit and vegetable purees for the freezer ready for starting to wean Alice next week. I can't believe six months has already gone!

Lu_T

Hi all

Bay - hope Jack is feeling better and you didn't have too bad a night. Have you tried Karvol? It's a kind of liquid Vicks which you put on a flannel by the cot and it helps them breathe. Otherwise I would just go for maximum doses of a paracetamol- and an ibruprofen-based remedy. They can have both at once.

If you are worried, call the docs. When I called the ambulance for Imogen they said they'd rather check out an unwell child and it be something and nothing, than not be called and they deteriorate.

Fingers crossed he's better soon. Let us know how you got on overnight.

L

cha97michelle

evening one and all.

i have had a day off work as it was a teacher training day and they said i could work from home. The work they gave me took about an hour and a half, so i managed a bit of a lie in, some nice time with charlie before dropping him off at nursery around 9:30ish, and then came home to potter and get on.

I had chance to pop to the drs and make my next midwife appointment and get a couple of bits of housework done, and the best of all was opportunity to kill some time on here and then sit and read a whole newspaper.

I am thinking a bit more of the same next week during half term so i can perhaps feel a bit less shattered, although thankfully the sickness seems to be subsiding a bit now.

bailey - hope you haven't had too rough of a time of it with Jack - i swear by a vapour rub for their chest called snuffle babe. I'm assuming you just get it from the chemist as it was in with some stuff my sister got me when charlie was newborn.

i'm just thinking blimey, if alice is nearly 6 months too! where on earth is all the time going?? I was just thinking my maternity leave will fall on the 20th of March, which once we get through this bit up to xmas is not actually that far away. Crazy.

heather38

hello all.
hope that everyone has coped with the time change.
well it's been an exciting weekend for all i think.
kennedy turned 1 on saturday!! i really don't know where the time has gone at all, we had a little party for her and she now has loads of plastic stuff to keep her occupied! :eek: