Heather has already posted on this so rather than rehash the whole story, I’ll just link to her account:
- Don’t promise an ambulance sighting or you will get 8 hours of hospital fun
- Thanksgiving after Turkey day
The only thing I think I would disagree with was that my phone call to her was “frantic”. I actually thought it was calm especially given the fact that I had been in an urgent care for 2-3 hours waiting and then calming a toddler as they drew blood, took x-rays, forced oxygen treatments, etc. I didn’t have the luxury of freaking out as I had to be calm for Ben. Oh well, minor quibble.
He’s doing much better, but he is violently opposing any medicine we try to give him, so the next several days are going to continue to be fun
I’m just glad he’s doing so much better. Thanks for the kind thoughts!
So glad to hear Ben is doing better.
On the medicine front, we use a method my friend Kaylyn taught us. Nate had to take Zantac from 6 weeks to a year old and he became awesome at spitting stuff out.
Lay child down in between your legs, face up. Place their head so you can squeeze their head with your thighs to immobilize the head. Tuck one arm under each of your legs. Kid is now fully immobilizzed except for legs.
Use a syringe to squirt in their mouth. If they refuse, you can pinch their nose and cover their mouth to force them to swallow. With practice, this only takes about 5 seconds for the entire thing.
After doing this 1 or 2 times, they will gladly take medicine the easy way
Also I’ve been known to bribe with M&Ms to get them to take medicine the easy way.