This weekend has been a sleepless one. Sophie has had a pretty high fever up to about 40C that started Friday. I spent the whole of Friday night sponging her to keep her temperature down. At 5am, I had to start getting ready to leave for my race (Singapore Biathlon). Anyway, thank God I did not drown swimming 1.5km in the sea after a night of close to no sleep.Sophie's temperature seemed in control all Saturday, so it was quite unexpected when I had night #2 of no sleep cos her temperature spiked to about 40C again and refused to go down despite the sponging for literally hours. By the morning, I was exhausted and worried about my poor little baby, so I decided to take her to NUH A&E. NUH was great again. I left NUH with instructions to pretty much do what I had been doing (i.e. keep her temperature down with paracetamol and sponging) but at least I got confirmation that it wasn't UTI or some bacteria infection (after a urine and blood test).
Napping Sunday afternoon was not an option cos we had made plans to take Ems to watch the ballet (Cinderella). Here's Emma with one of her 1st friends ever - Charlotte Chang. Am afraid I can't tell you too much about the ballet,... I was somewhat in and out of sleep for the entire 2.5hrs. Ok, so napping was an option afterall,.... but not SERIOUS napping!I am looking forward to getting reacquainted with my bed and the ZZzzzzzz-Monster tonight ............. Over and out!
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Can understand what you are going through.
My daughter had high fever for an entire week recently and we did the same thing.
Sponging and Nurofen.
Strangely, the high fever only occurs at night.
The fever went away for a week and came again for 3 days the following week.
She is fine now.
Yup, have noticed fevers often get higher at night. Nature's way of keeping us mummies on out toes! High fever for an entire week is crazy though!
With the older kids, alternating between Paracetamol and Nurofen seems to keep things in control but Nurofen was off limits for Soph cos she is under 1yr.
Anyway she seems perfectly fine today so let's hope it stays that way!
Glad to hear that. :)
Can't wait to read your Singapore Biathlon entry. :)
Poor baby! Chloe had fever the week before and I was setting my alarm every 2 hours to check her temperature. It wasn't as high as Sophies but I was still super worried. I can't believe you still made it to the biathlon after a sleepless night! You deserve a round of applause man... *clapclapclap*!
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