This week my littlest little man, Mr B,
turned one. On 29th September 2015 at 5.52am my chunky baby entered
the world. Mr B is both the smilest and teariest baby I have ever known, and I
love him for that.
Mr S was given a prescription last week
which the doctor informed me was his first prescription ever. Whereas Mr B has
had quite a medicine filled 1st year, poor little monkey.
When he was just over a month old he
had bronchiolitis and was a wheezy, coughy ball of cuteness for around 3 weeks.
His cries became really horse and strained. He still has a sound of Rod Stewart
which I blame on the lasting effects of bronchiolitis.
When he was around 5 months old I took
him in pets at home to look at the rabbits. He was really enjoying it cooing
and reaching out to touch them. I leaned him over the edge of the rabbit
enclosure to have a closer look which is when a virus struck his stomach. He
vomited on the poor little rabbits and all over the floor as I pulled him away.
Considering the staff in there work with animals and animals shit all day, you
should have seen the disgust on their faces. I felt like saying “hi, I brought
him in here to vomit and ruin your day on purpose”, I wanted the ground to
swallow me. This was the start of 2 weeks of diarrhoea and vomiting.
Wonderful.
When he was 6 months old he contracted
an eye infection. My poor little chunk could barely open his eye and spent the
days till the drops started worked crying and rubbing it. You haven't started a
day right till you've started it pinning down a baby, who suddenly develops
super human strength, to put drops in.
At around 10 months he had his 1st trip
to children's A&E. He had a non-blanching rash and was very floppy
and tired. I was terrified. It was like that moment at the top of a
roller coaster where your waiting to drop. He had to have blood taken while I
held him down, which resulted in him crying, me crying and a very comforting
nurse promising me it was for his benefit. It turned out the rash was
viral, not meningitis though. I can't explain to you the relief when I knew my
boy wasn't as bad as my crazy, over active imagination had decided.
His worst illness has been this week.
Ending in his 1st birthday afternoon being spent in hospital with dehydration.
While we were on a family holiday last week we noticed something similar to a
small graze on his chin. We presumed that his newly walking feet had lost their
balance and he must have bumped his chin. A plausible excuse for the
mark. However, the day we got home these 'marks' started appearing on his
nappy area. They looked quite sore, and I didn't make the link between these
and his chin so I applied nappy cream and went on with my day. Within an hour
they were spreading down his legs and looked more like blisters.
My first thought was chicken pox but as
he seemed quite unwell, being irritable and off his food, off we went to the
docs. By the time we arrived it was on his face, where suddenly the original
'mark' faded in, his hands and feet.
My poor little man had hand foot and
mouth. I had never heard of it and instantly started questioning when my
little boy had been near a farm animal. The doctor reassured me that hand foot
and mouth is different to the foot and mouth animals get. It is a virus which
just has to run its course. It causes blister type spots on the mouth, hands,
feet and nappy area. It gives ulcers inside your mouth which obviously make
eating and drinking quite painful. It can also cause
- high temperature (fever),
usually around 38-39C (100.4-102.2F)
-a general sense of feeling unwell
-loss of appetite
-coughing
-abdominal (tummy) pain
-a sore throat and mouth
My poor littlest man had all of these.
Which led to not eating and drinking which led to the dehydration. It
also didn't help that he was put on strong antibiotics as some of the blisters
became infected, which made him feel even worse.
So my boys first birthday was his worst
birthday so far, but I have everything crossed that he will be getting better
very soon. Then it will be cake and cuddles all round.
Good day to you x
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