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Over the hump
Nov. 12th, 2019 12:45 am I am so ready to stop posting about E's feeding and health stuff! But today is not, quite, that day.
The thrush got worse before it got better. My theory is that the old tube of canesten I was using up had gone off, or didn't work any more. When I used the new tube it got better, when I used the old tube it got worse. So now I've thrown away the old one and am using the fresh one and it's getting steadily better. I had a GP appointment booked for tomorrow morning to ask for stronger meds, but I've cancelled it.
Latch is improved now the tongue tie wound has healed. I reckon it's about half and half shallow latch and deep latch depending on how much else is going on. I'm not fighting E over it, just encouraging them to do the deep latch if they're calm.
Feed times are definitely shorter. Our wonderful new nanny C was here last Weds and I toggled 5 hrs work out of 8. I reckon I spent an hour having breakfast and lunch and helping C get settled, so that means I was probably only feeding 2 hrs out of 8. A vast improvement!
E got a cold, so there's been lots of congestion and snot, poor love. Waking at night unable to breathe, loss of appetite, struggling to latch on. We've been making good use of saline drops, nosefrida and drops of tea tree and olbas oil in hot water to make steam.
Then they had their third set of booster vaccinations, three jabs in one go including the meningitis B, which produces inflammation and a fever. Woe! Baby with cold AND jab reaction is a sad time. There were a couple of days where they wouldn't eat, threw up every feed and every attempt to give them medication, ran a temperature but couldn't keep calpol down, cried a lot and it was all a bit hard. We had E's Oddparents Zoe and Ell here and we all pitched in, which was a real blessing and really helped us weather the storm.
E's been sleeping back in the bed with us while they're ill, so lots of cuddles. This morning they were still asleep after we both woke up, so we set up the baby monitor and came downstairs. We had 45 minutes of drinking tea and eating breakfast baby free like normal humans! Amazing.
The nasty oral thrush medication is over now. We're using daktarin gel once a day until my boobs are totally clear, which is much less stressful.
So I think we're over the worst bit! I'm sure there'll be more viruses and so on, but we won't have to contend with virus+tongue tie division+thrush+vaccinations all at once ever again!
The thrush got worse before it got better. My theory is that the old tube of canesten I was using up had gone off, or didn't work any more. When I used the new tube it got better, when I used the old tube it got worse. So now I've thrown away the old one and am using the fresh one and it's getting steadily better. I had a GP appointment booked for tomorrow morning to ask for stronger meds, but I've cancelled it.
Latch is improved now the tongue tie wound has healed. I reckon it's about half and half shallow latch and deep latch depending on how much else is going on. I'm not fighting E over it, just encouraging them to do the deep latch if they're calm.
Feed times are definitely shorter. Our wonderful new nanny C was here last Weds and I toggled 5 hrs work out of 8. I reckon I spent an hour having breakfast and lunch and helping C get settled, so that means I was probably only feeding 2 hrs out of 8. A vast improvement!
E got a cold, so there's been lots of congestion and snot, poor love. Waking at night unable to breathe, loss of appetite, struggling to latch on. We've been making good use of saline drops, nosefrida and drops of tea tree and olbas oil in hot water to make steam.
Then they had their third set of booster vaccinations, three jabs in one go including the meningitis B, which produces inflammation and a fever. Woe! Baby with cold AND jab reaction is a sad time. There were a couple of days where they wouldn't eat, threw up every feed and every attempt to give them medication, ran a temperature but couldn't keep calpol down, cried a lot and it was all a bit hard. We had E's Oddparents Zoe and Ell here and we all pitched in, which was a real blessing and really helped us weather the storm.
E's been sleeping back in the bed with us while they're ill, so lots of cuddles. This morning they were still asleep after we both woke up, so we set up the baby monitor and came downstairs. We had 45 minutes of drinking tea and eating breakfast baby free like normal humans! Amazing.
The nasty oral thrush medication is over now. We're using daktarin gel once a day until my boobs are totally clear, which is much less stressful.
So I think we're over the worst bit! I'm sure there'll be more viruses and so on, but we won't have to contend with virus+tongue tie division+thrush+vaccinations all at once ever again!