Sickness

It really annoys me when people take their sick kids out and it makes others sick. Tyler doesn't have that much physical contact with other kids other than my friends kids and mummies groups.

He had his 12month needles last Wednesday and on Friday I noticed he was off and had a slight temp. By Sunday this had escalated he was off all solid food and by about 2pm his fever was getting really bad. I monitored him over night and gave him panadol. I simply figured it was from his needles.

He had a very restless night waking frequently and crying but managed to get himself back to sleep quickly. I knew he had a fever but I didn't want to go in and wake him up if he was still mostly asleep as this just makes him very disorientated and he gets really upset. I usually give him 5 mins if he doesn't resettle I go in and settle him.

Anyway in the morning as he was off his solids I was giving him a bottle and noticed a light rash. Started on his hands and feet but by 7am it was from head to toe. I know rashes can be bad but I also know when it's viral they can't do much about it so I did some googling and it seemed to be either hand foot and mouth or possibly mild measles from the MMR vaccine.

Being pregnant i decided to take him to the dr. She said she thought it was hand foot and mouth and to give panadol and neurofen and keep up fluids. No problems with me being pregnant.

I really wasn't sure that's what he had as his rash really was bad all over and not blistery. He got worse that day though, refusing to sleep even on me, he fever was bad and it was so hot due to the building storm. We did our normal bed routine and he slept for about 20mins but woke up crying and nothing I did could settle him :( we decided to bring him into our bed but he simply wouldn't stop crying. It was a really distressed cry too so heart breaking. I was so close to taking him to hospital as I honestly didn't know what else to do. Neither panaol or neuofen was helping :( finally at 10pm he crawled to the edge of the bed and passed out. Unfortunately he wasn't sleeping as he was thrashing around the bed and I wondered if it was because it wasn't he normal bed and we were there moving and waking him up. So at midnight I gave him some more panadol, a bottle and popped him into his cot. He went down straight away but woke crying every 20mins but again put himself back to sleep quickly. At 2:30am he finally fell into a deeper sleep and didn't stir till 5:30am and even I managed a couple of hours sleep.

I noticed in the morning that the rash on his head and body were now smaller white raised dots some still red but tiny but the ones on his hands and feet were big and red and blistery. Very nasty looking. He was also having trouble swallowing and the saliva was just pouring out of his mouth so it was likely he had this nasty blistery ones in his mouth. Yep hand foot and mouth. Where in the hell did he get it from?

His fever had finally broken and Yesterday he managed 2 hour then 3 hour nap and last night he slept through without stirring once. This morning he ate some breakfast. It was hard for him he was still struggling to swallow but he was trying so it seems he is on the mend.

So unfortunately this means we are under house arrest until the spots clear up, which is fine as I don't want to make any other babies sick, perhaps if someone else had done the same Tyler wouldn't have gotten sick :(

This also meant I couldn't make CJ's farewell on Monday :( this was very sad for me but I needed to looks after my sick little man. I have seen the pics though and it looked beautiful. I was hoping to release some balloons from here at home but as Tyler hadn't stopped crying all day I never got a chance and now I can't get out of the house to get any :( A knows I would have been there if I could. She seems ok but she has a very long road ahead of her :(

Bubba boy seems all good. Nothing to report there really. Have my 3D/4D scan next wednesday. Will be 30+5 exactly the same as what i was with Tyler. Wonder what he will look like!
Can't believe i will be 30weeks on Friday. Home stretch! Should start getting my butt into gear. I am not even remotely ready for this bub.