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Our trip to England... poorly baby and weird bathtimes!
Hi ladies
I've been a bit inactive recently. We're over in the UK for the first time ever and arrived just over a week ago. We've got 3 weeks left!
C behaved great on the plane once we'd taken off. Before that it was scream-o-rama! You can't believe the dirty looks I was getting too and I actually told one bloke to p*** off as he was complaining behind me about "I hope IT'S not going to do that all the way home". Incredible. She's a tiny baby for god's sake. Once we'd taken off she settled right down and slept all the way here, even on the way down! What an angel. I kind of wished she had kept it up just to bug that rude man! I would have pointed her in his direction hehe
Since we've been here she's been quite distressed (rewind to my colic days!) and I ended up taking her to an NHS drop-in centre. It turns out the poor little mite has tonsilitis :O
She's only allowed calpol unless she's still the same in a week when they'll prescribe anitbiotics. It's so unusual for a little baby to get that they said, and of course the made me feel rubbish saying that she's no immunity because she's not breastfed. So according to them the 3 weeks I battled with her and expressed mean nothing. Great!!
lastly, she loves the bath at our place but since we've been here she screams blue murder in the tub. Weird!! I've tried everything: different rooms, baby bath, big bath, getting in with her....I've no idea why she hates it so much here when she loves it at home. I don't think we'll be coming to england again lol
Anyway, just a bit of a whinge
I hope the rest of our time here goes a bit better than the first week!
xxxx
I've been a bit inactive recently. We're over in the UK for the first time ever and arrived just over a week ago. We've got 3 weeks left!
C behaved great on the plane once we'd taken off. Before that it was scream-o-rama! You can't believe the dirty looks I was getting too and I actually told one bloke to p*** off as he was complaining behind me about "I hope IT'S not going to do that all the way home". Incredible. She's a tiny baby for god's sake. Once we'd taken off she settled right down and slept all the way here, even on the way down! What an angel. I kind of wished she had kept it up just to bug that rude man! I would have pointed her in his direction hehe
Since we've been here she's been quite distressed (rewind to my colic days!) and I ended up taking her to an NHS drop-in centre. It turns out the poor little mite has tonsilitis :O
She's only allowed calpol unless she's still the same in a week when they'll prescribe anitbiotics. It's so unusual for a little baby to get that they said, and of course the made me feel rubbish saying that she's no immunity because she's not breastfed. So according to them the 3 weeks I battled with her and expressed mean nothing. Great!!
lastly, she loves the bath at our place but since we've been here she screams blue murder in the tub. Weird!! I've tried everything: different rooms, baby bath, big bath, getting in with her....I've no idea why she hates it so much here when she loves it at home. I don't think we'll be coming to england again lol
Anyway, just a bit of a whinge
I hope the rest of our time here goes a bit better than the first week!
xxxx
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That man was a compleat plank!!!!!what a moaning miserable git
Hope she gets better soon, it could be making her very sensitive feeling and a bit touchy when it comes to baths!? Xxx
Poo to the NHS drop in centre, I'm not sure you can get immunity to tonsilitis, otherwise how to people get it more than once?! I think bf does increase their immune system, but it wouldn't stop them getting everything, so don't beat yourself up for not carrying on with it, you did a great job getting to three weeks. They just push it so much here that they'll use it as an excuse to anything.
I even had a HV pretty much accuse me of lying about bf when Sophie had a nasty nappy rash. She told me that bf babies don't get nappy rash. Well, I'm afraid that I can prove that statement wrong! I don't ever want to come across her again.
her getting it! So stupid!!
I'll have to remember that one about tr mute button if I ever get to take Ryan off on hols, although oh is known for being outspoken soni doubt I'd get a chance to use it. What's wrong with people, it's not even like it's a long haul flight and might've missed out on sleep!
Do you think it's feeling under the wearer the might be upsetting bath time?
Fingers crossed she's feeling much better soon and hopefully you can enjoy the lovely British summer x
poor little Corynn, i hope she feels better soon and you are getting help looking after her, looking after a poorly baby must take its toll! i agree with the others, i expect its her feeling under the weather which is making her reject the bath. hugs xx
thanks for your kind words, I can always count on you lot! Well, things did get quite tough and they definitely did take their toll, PP! She seems better in herself now but I had days and days of entire sleepless nights as she'd wake up every half hour - hour. She wouldn't eat either but was hungry, the swallowing was obviously painful. Uff, what a week.
Now she seems a lot brighter though, bless her. Hopefully we're over the worst! She still hates the bath though so I've reduced it to every other day as I hate seeing her so terrified and upset. These babies are weird things, aren't they?
Anyway, now I'm feeling slightly more human I'm off to catch up on all the goss on here! xxxxx