Hello. Had a really bad day today. Poor Ds is just 10 weeks, he had first set of jabs on Wednesday and has been poorly since. I think he has caught a nasty cold from dd (who is nearly 2) and the poor lamb is really suffering. I took him to see GP yesterday who listened to his chest, said his chest was ok but she could hear a heart murmur Having given me this information she then said it could be related to his cold and if I get him checked out in a week or so it might well have disappeared? Being a complete worry guts this has completely freaked me out, even though I know it's probably nothing too much to worry about. Today, longest day, is the anniversary of when my lovely mum died 11 years ago and poor old ds was even more poorly today and I ended up taking him to local Casualty dept. to get him checked over again, because his breathing was rapid and he was so miserable. Doctor at Casualty was ok, but I didn't feel he was particularly thorough, didn't even take ds's temperature, just said that chest sounded ok and put him in a steamy bathroom. I don't regret taking him but dh hinted that I may have gone a bit over the top. I thought with ds being child no.2 I would be so much more laid back but I'm not. It's so hard when they're tiny because you can't even give them calpol or Karvol. Ds is in GF routine and thankfully, despite snoozing on and off most of the afternoon he settled not too bad at 7.15 pm.
Sorry, just wanted to get this off my chest, I'm feeling very tearful and overwhelmed with the responsibility of looking after two children under 2 yrs.