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It’s hard to really write this post at the moment as I’ve got so much going through my head I just don’t know what to put down first but I’ll try. It’s been a pretty rough few days in the Brown household but I’ve finally got 5 minutes to sit down and blog about it.

I guess it started on Thursday with nursery phoning to say Zara had been sick, since then my life has been a constant battle with sick, poo, snot, tears, calpol, nurofen, dirty washing and a broken washing machine but I think we are finally starting to improve.

After barely keeping anything down for days, we finally decided the doctors was in order on Monday (yesterday) after Zara’s temperature reaching 40.4 degrees on Sunday night and yet another night of going in to check on her, to find her lying in a pool of sick and poo. The doctors sent us over to the childrens ward at our local hospital yesterday where she was thoroughly checked out and having diagnosed a nasty bout of gastroenteritis we were finally sent home at about 9pm after we’d managed to get some fluid into her. Her temperature was still 39.6 when we left the hospital but we’ve been told to expect a few more days of it and to keep doing what we’ve been doing and ride it out. At least it’s reassuring that they were happy to send her home.

A peaceful moment in hospital exploring some new toys

I left home at 10am yesterday and finally got home at gone 9pm so to say it was exhausting was an understatement, Zara did pretty much nothing but scream for most of the day and having been up since 3am with a catnap on the sofa I was at my wits end. Daddy was at work and though he offered to come over to the hospital to help out I told him to just come along after work as there really wasn’t a lot happening except crying. I forget sometimes how exhausting it is trying to cope with a poorly baby at the best of times but add in the fact that I’m 8 months pregnant now I think it all just proved a bit too much yesterday.

I’m feeling much better about everything today as hubby slept with the monitor in the spare room and got up to see to Zara overnight allowing me to have a full nights sleep so I’m a bit more prepared with the daily ritual of poo soaked baby, baths, washing and of course calpol. Luckily her temperature is down today and despite the explosive nappies we at least haven’t had any more sick yet.

I know it’s just a case of Zara’s immune system developing since she started nursery but it seems like we’ve just had one bug after another since November and it can’t help but get you down after a while. It’s not very often I get to tweet about how she’s taken some steps today or learnt a new word, my life just seems to be a constant twitter stream of poo and sick. It will get better I keep telling myself!

Right well it sounds like Zara is stirring from her nap so I’d better go see what disasters await me in her cot this time, it really doesn’t help that our washing machine has broken and I haven’t had chance to order a new one yet.