Blueberries...

make George's poo really black!! :) We were in town on the weekend and came across a market stall which was selling fruit - so we bought a punnet of blueberries. George had never had blueberries (not that we know anyway). So we thought we'd try him on some.

He had some on saturday, practically half the punnet on sunday and finished them all today (Monday). Today, he went to nursery, and this evening when we picked him up, his key worker Jade said (in panicked voice), 'I've kept a sample of his nappy to show you - it's black! He might have an iron deficiency!!'

We looked at her confused, then said 'ah... he had a whole load of blueberries!!' - her face relaxed....... considerably. It was funny.

Tonight when we changed him for his bath, his nappy was poo-ey again...and it was black. like tar! gross.

His fever (previous blog entry) turned out to be an ear infection. I took him to the dr's on friday who diagnosed an ear infection (red right ear, pink left ear) and promptly dispensed antibiotics, again. sigh. But he seems to have bounced back quite quickly. He's still on antibiotics - will keep him on it for a week, but he appears pretty normal now.

The dr who rang me back on friday was really nice. Usually over here, our surgery's quite good anyway, by giving us an appointment on the day itself (compared to other surgeries around the country which might give you an appointment within the week!). On friday though, after I'd described his symptoms of being very feverish and lethargic (very much not himself), she suggested I took him in to the surgery. However he was sleeping when she called, and so I didn't really want to commit to a time and miss the appointment. She then said, 'bring him in when he wakes up - hopefully before 12noon and we'll squeeze him in!'... and lo and behold, that's what I did, and that's what happened!

Most impressed....

p x