poor bubba...

is ill! :(

So, the G man started nursery last week, 16th September 2008, 2 days short of his 7 month old birthday...! and he took to it very well. He took to Jade, his key worker (did I mention that already?!) and ate all his food, and played with the toys and other babies..!

He was already slightly poorly with a cold when we got back from Sg, but that got progressively worse as the week went by and by the weekend, he wasn't eating as much and was breathing rather laboriously. His little cold had developed into a bad cold, and a nasty hacking cough with phelgm! Poor little mite. Coincidentally, I was down with diahhrea and food poisoning on Saturday which has sort of just 'stopped' today (tuesday?!), so it didn't help with my milk supply at all!

Took him to the doctor's yesterday, who declared that it was a rota-virus (ie, something 90% of babies will get once they go to nursery) and that it wasn't too bad. Unfortunately, at this age, they can't really get given anything other than paracetamol. His runny nose seems to have dried up but his cough's got worse.

We didn't go to nursery yesterday as I don't work mondays (for now! that's another long story), and today we didn't think we'd take him in but the nursery said it was ok to bring him in. So we did. Which was a bit of a disaster really, coz by 11.30am, they'd rung D and asked if he'd come and get G since he wasn't settling and being his usual cheery self. We got to the nursery. I fed him, he had a bit of a nap, and then tried to feed him some food. He wasn't eating much. We left the room for a little while to have a chat with the manager regarding possible change of days at the nursery and when we got back to his room, he was crying again. Poor bubba.

We took him home, he was much happier although whingey, and now he's sleeping. I hope he gets well soon. It's so sad to see baby suffering like this and not being able to express himself or tell us what's wrong! :(

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