Hey, I’m a first time mum with anxiety and I’m having a bit of a panic attack here!
My baby had his injections today, and I was told to give calpol as a precaution to stop a temperature.
I thought I best attempt to sterilise the calpol syringe as it was going in my baby’s mouth. So I put it in a dish and poured boiling water on it, and sucked some boiling water up inside.
I emptied the water out of the syringe, gave it a few shakes, and then used it to suck up the calpol and give it to my baby a few minutes later. I had assumed it was sufficiently cooled.
He cried whilst I was giving it to him, then kept crying the entire way through a bottle immediately afterward. I’m terrified I could have burnt his mouth on the syringe if it wasn’t cooled properly? Or still had a bit of hot water in it.
I know he could have been crying because he didn’t like the calpol, or felt under the weather from the injections, but I’ve put myself into a panic now in case I’ve burnt his little mouth! He’s asleep now, and so hasn’t had another bottle yet.
Am I being irrational here, or could I have burnt his mouth? And if so, what should I do? Please help! Thank you!