Dipped soft spot and where to take baby?

[Meowstro]

Is the soft spot at the top of the head near the front always a little dipped? I've never noticed due to LO's hair but it's currently pulsating and appears to be slightly dipped.

Can't get a GP appointment for love nor money for her cough and sneezing that's lasted a couple of weeks, with a rash as well now (bumps/pimples, looked like heat rash in a small area at first) that has spread up her tummy, I want her to be seen but I also don't know where on earth to take her as the walk in centre won't see her due to age - she's 6 weeks old.

Plenty of wet nappies although she has been quiet in the last 24 hours, crying much less than usual and slept 7 hours last night, although breast fed in between. When she's awake she's alert just quiet.

Does your GP surgery not offer emergency appointments? It takes me around three weeks to be seen by my GP for anything to do with myself but my children have always been seen on the same day I have called (by either a doctor or a nurse) when I have been worried about them.

Otherwise at six weeks, you'll be able to see a health visitor nearby and speak to them.

Ring your GP, ask for an appointment today. At our surgery the GP will call back and run through symptoms, and get you to come in if necessary.

If you say sunken fontanelle, slight rash and not as responsive as usual.

It's likely just a virus, and a bit of dehydration. Does she have a temp?

My dc always had it slightly dipped to the touch. The only time it was dehydrated it was clearly pulled in.

But the pimples-does it look like sandpaper? I would wonder about scarlet fever. You need to be seen, I think with that.

Just got through, no appointments for emergency. They run a telephone triage in the mornings and all get booked up, explained her age but still no. Told to ring 111 which I will do, just want to check, I don't know it's sunken per se, more so like when you've conked yourself on the head and there's a little dent if that makes sense. Are they always like that?

No fever or raised temperature. The spots are raised like sandpaper but not all close together, they're quite spread out.

Call 111

It is probably fine, but nobody on here is going to tell you not to get it checked out. If no health visitor, try a drop-in centre or 111.

I would have said that the fontanelle on its own was fine - all three of mine has ones that were dipped at random times.

With the rash etc I'm not so sure though. TBH I would think a spreading rash (whilst probably not worth being alarmed at in this case) is worth being seen by a doctor.

That's outrageous that they won't see a 6 week old with a rash. My Dr's is a nightmare for appointments but DD has always been seen same day with no fuss at all.

Ring 111 - if they send you to hospital take some spare pants and any medication for you, just in case they want to keep her in for ABs. In my experince they give ABs to babies very readily, in case of sepsis. (not saying this is sepsis at all, just hospitals are very cautious with tiny babies ime)

Sorry, meant to say DDs fontanelle was always visible - not properly sunken, but i could see where it was, always. That might just have been her though.

I cannot believe they didn't fit your baby in! Disgraceful. She's probably ok but with a 6 week old you do not take chances. My GP surgery are hot on giving an appointment no matter how busy same day for any child under two let alone a newborn!

Sorry to say, and it's a very inappropriate and unnecessary use of NHS resources but if there's no walkin clinic to go to id pop to A&E.

Is she eating and drinking somewhat?

It's most likely normal if she is having a normal amount if wet nappies. Just go to your GP

With regards to the soft spot, if it is dipped your baby is slight dehydrated, the pulsating isn't anything to worry about, it's just your babies pulse. I'd get the other things checked out though.

Hope she's ok.
The soft spot wouldn't worry me but the spots and cough would.
Babies that young often don't get temperatures
Does the rash fade if you press on it?
If 111 doesn't give you an app tonight please take her to children's a and e.

Ps please take her straight to a and e If you just feel she's not right - don't even wait for a 111 appointment. She's so little and I'm concerned about her. I think the focus on the soft spot has made people overlook she's 6 weeks old with a nasty cough and now a rash.

Spoke to 111 and they called an ambulance. In the end the hospital said newborns get rashes like that sometimes, even with the other symptoms they weren't concerned. She cried lots when stripped and weighed so said she was alert and not lethargic, showed me to be a fool after sleeping though nappy change at home, which is unheard of!

She's not feeding very well and keeps unlatching so I have no idea what's going on, she's meant to be going through a developmental leap but today has just felt like we're back to when she had jaundice. I'm hoping today was just a quiet day.

Can't believe the GP surgery though This is the second time I've had to go to A&E when a GP should have seen her.

Your doctors sound spelling
Mine will give an appointment to any baby with a rash

Have you got a drop in centre close by?
Go to a&e if not. Better to be safe than sorry with any rash.

Sorry meant to say appalling

Please take her back if you feel she's not right - if they didn't do any blood tests they can't of ruled out any nasty things.

Hopefully she is completely
Fine and it's good you are reassured - absolutely not a fool. It's just it's all so familiar to sent home and then to need to go back and then they actually diagnose. Just go straight back if you have any concerns. Better to look a bit foolish than to risk her. I speak as someone whose baby stopped feeding and wasn't quite right and turned out to have sepsis and had to go on life support for a week. You just never know when they are so little they can't tell you they are ill.

m.kidshealth.org/en/parents/sepsis.html?WT.ac=

She does have a few of the sepsis symptoms so please be careful

I truly hope she's just got a cold!

Don't be afraid to take her back if she worsens. When my DD was a student she got terrible cystitis with kidney pains and blood in urine and a raging temperature. It was a Sunday so her bf took her to A&E where, after waiting for hours, she was sent home and told to see GP for antibiotics.

Her BF called me several hours later and put her on. She was delirious and shaking (rigours) so I told him to get a taxi at my expense and take her back. This time they took one look and admitted her. Straight onto IV antibiotics and when I arrived the next morning she was sitting up in AAU looking much better. They found pus around one kidney on a scan and Dr said they just got the antibiotics in in time to avoid sepsis.

Never be afraid to go back.

Thank you for all of your help, she seems fine now. No idea what caused her to be so sleepy and not waking up properly when doing checks for consciousness but apart from being quiet and sleepy, she responded normally in hospital. I definitely wouldn't ignore any signs if I felt she needed to go back.

I kept the signs of Sepsis on our fridge after the HV gave it to us. Very useful info and can see how they would be overlooked.

Great news - glad she is better

Very good news.

It is probably with complaining about the GP appointment or at least asking what the alternative is. They really should be trying to see tiny babies.