Emily and I have recently started the sad task of helping her settle into being with her carer, The One, so she can get used to her and her home etc before I go back to work. Unfortunately it hasn't gone as well as expected. We had a visit last week where I fed her the bottle and lunch and just visited with The One, and Granny came too which was really nice. This particular visit was pretty good but they went downhill from there!
The next day we went back and I had planned to leave Emily with The One for an hour so they could bond, feed her the bottle and lunch etc. I had to go back after 40mins as Emily was soooo upset and wasn't drinking! While I was internally distressed, I think I was quite calm on the outside, and as least I could get Emily to drink and eat with me, and then we came home for her lunchtime sleep - which I might add was 2hours (yay!), whereas it's usually 1.5hours! I think she was very tired from the excitement / stress of it all.
Then 2 days later we went back again for another visit, because the previous one wasn't so great, and oh my goodness, was Emily upset. From the second we arrived till the second we left. She wouldn't take the bottle from The One, and hardly from me, and once she had calmed down enough I could get her to have a little lunch, but she wasn't herself. She just seemed to be so extremely upset, even with me there... It was really hard seeing her so upset when she is usually so happy, all the time! So we decided to do a whole lot more visits this week to help her settle in.
Later that day after Emily's lunchtime sleep (a short hour, this time), she just wasn't herself and seemed very quiet. When I touched her forehead, she was really burning up, and had a temperature of 40 degrees!! Wow, that was a terrifying moment! We hotfooted it to the doctor who reassured us she was fine and had a viral throat thing. She took a bit of medicine and was soon happy and calm again. So I am hoping like mad that she was that upset at the visit as she wasn't feeling well, and not just because she was unhappy.
I have a feeling she may have baby hand, foot and mouth disease! She was in contact with one of her little baby friends recently who had it, and she is definitely showing the symptoms... temperature, spots around mouth, on her hands and legs. Oh dear. The timing is pretty spectacular if it is! We go to the doctor tomorrow to confirm it, and then will have to see what The One will want to do regarding our visits as she looks after another wee baby and of course, wouldn't want her to get sick too. So watch this space on what happens!!
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