Amelia has had a cold for a few days now but has caught a cough to go with it. For the past couple of days she has been coughing a fair bit, until she almost chokes and last night she did it again but didnt take a breath straight afterwards. I went into total panic mode (which is surprising as I'm normally the calm one in a crisis) but thankfully James was calm and helped me. We rang NHS Direct for some advice as I was unsure of what the right thing to do was when a baby starts to choke. Anyway they put me through to a nurse who wanted her to be checked over by a doctor (for chest infection etc) so sorted out a call to the out of office doctor for us, who rang us back within 10 minutes. I was feeding Amelia at the time so James spoke to him and then said "Get her dressed, we need to get her checked over at the hospital". I was relieved that somebody was going to check her over (I hate worrying about her when she's poorly) but it reminded me so much of when we had to take her to hospital when she was just 4 days old and refused to feed. I now officially hate hospitals.
Anyway, after a 2 hour wait we were seen and checked over by a lovely nurse and then a very lovely health visitor. We were given cream for the sore bit she has under her neck but her chest, ears and eyes are all okay. She had a whole body check over which was very reassuring.
We got home completely exhausted and went to bed around 11pm. Amelia continued to cough a bit but nothing as bad as before and didnt choke or cough up any nasties but had to have several hugs and cuddles from Mummy through out the night.
Being a Mummy is the most rewarding but the hardest thing I have ever done. I hope the good, rewarding times out weigh the bad and scary moments from now on. xx
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