Vinnie Story Number I don't know

[callistra]

He managed to eat a felt dot. The dot was about a centimetre, and yellow. I thought I had managed to get to the peices before he'd eaten them all, but I was just wrong apparently.

He was upset and crying and obviously in distress for an hour or so, and John came home and was holding him when he puked, and that was when we discovered the dot. He was a little better for about ten minutes, and then went all wobbly again, so we bundled ourselves up and headed out for the After hours doctor. Just before we left he had an even bigger puke, no dots this time. By the time we were seated and the forms filled out, he was looking around and trying to stand up. By the time we saw the nurse he was smiling at ladies and babies. By the time we saw the dr he was trying to get at things so he could play with them.

All in all, a sucky, stress filled couple of hours with one bright thing in them - he's OK, and John's here now.

Thank fuck.

Comments

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

i ive in fear of what mine will swallow. glad to hear all is okay though.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

Your little one seems to have a knack for this - I'm so glad he's alright!!!

*hugs*

[chaosmanor.livejournal.com]

Children should stop choking on things. New house rule: no Stuff in the mouth.

I've now Heimliched two out of four of my kids. So completely over children who are Old Enough to Know Better putting weird Bits in their mouths and coming to grief with them.

Then there was the friend of mine who found out her toddler had eaten a large amount of alfoil when it come through in the nappy. The same child ate a nappy liner too, also later found in a nappy.

[chaosmanor.livejournal.com]

and having vented...

I'm really glad Vinnie is alright, and that John is home with you.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

LOL
I liked Lyn's saying: That is NOT a mouth toy!
But only if you catch them at it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

I'm glad he's OK.

Kids survive swallowing all sorts of crap. As long as it's not a button battery, or medications, they tend to do just fine.

Even marbles are OK. If they make it out of the oesophagus and into the stomach, there's no problem. It'll come out the other end.

Inhaling things, and inserting things up the nose are different matters.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Thank you.
:-)

[prk.livejournal.com]

Ug.

I'm glad he's okay.

Is this kind of thing normal/expected when it comes to child raising?

prk.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it doesn't stop the stress, irrational fears, endless heartbreaking sobbing or exhausted baby and us from having all of the above.

And besides, would you have known that he'd swallowed something? What it it had been a pin? Or a wasp? How could you tell? What if it had been a button battery? Poison?

So I'm not quite sure what you mean by asking if this is normal/expected. If you think, because it's normal or expected, that this means it shouldn't be stressful or upsetting, then you're on a different planet to me! :-)

[prk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it doesn't stop the stress, irrational fears, endless heartbreaking sobbing or exhausted baby and us from having all of the above.

*nod*

I guess the question was too vague. Let me rephrase, using your terms from above.

Is the stress, irrational fears, false alarms, endless frenetic worrying, exhaustion etc normal for raising a small child?

I've not had much involvement with small children before - you and battblush are the two people who have young children which I hear about.

Looking ahead, should amarillion and I spawn, are we likely to be in for the same type of ongoing emotional stress?

Or are you and battblush having a bad run with things which is worse than "normal" (assuming there is such a thing as normal when it comes to raising small children)?

I assume you're in contact with a lot of other mothers - do they go through the same kind of stress & emotional rollercoaster?

prk.

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

as one of those mothers calistra sees i can tell you that the emotional rollercoaster is normal. i'm not talking postnatal depression, here, which is a whole separate issue, but the rollercoaster is terrifying and exhausting enough. sleep deprivation is one of the main causes - don't think the night time waking stops after the first 6 weeks. parents of 1 year olds average 1 hour of sleep lost a night.

someone once described childhood as an experiment in finding new and interesting ways to kill yourself. constant vigilance is really necessary. i had to buy a device to corral my bub in order to go to the toilet. you cannot reason or explain with a baby. you have to test and trial to find out what is wrong with them. they are not miniature adults.

also,expect your child to kill the shift key on the computer.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to reply for three days now, but just haven't been able to since we've been doing the christmas thing!
:-)

Ongoing emotional stress? When did that happen? I posted aboutVinnie eating a dot, and us taking him to the hospital, and a couple of weeks ago he had a febile convulsion. That's not ongoing.
:-)

I don't worry for 95% of the time, and I only worry when there is something obvious going on. Even when he started to get sick that night, I wasn't too worried since it is only a decision between *which* medical system we go to, emergency, 000 or late night dr. I could tell it wasn't a 000 and I didn't think it would be emergency, but since the emergency and late night dr often have similar waiting times, I expected we'd be going there.

I think you will have your own emotional issues. I don't think you can really judge anything by any one else's baby or experience. The funny thing is, I don't blog much about the amazingness of every day life with Vinnie because quite simply, I think every one would get bored and just stop reading. A baby brings joy and happiness into every day, more than anything I've ever come across. And sometimes, they need help and it's a bit frustrating to not know how to help or what to do for them. One thing John said that he had never been told, was just how much fun it is for him to be a dad. To come home and play with lego with Vinnie, or to sit vinnie on his knee while they play computer games, and even the changing nappies and doing bottles there just feels like there is a special reason for doing so.

A couple of days of stress, agony, worry, and etc for 16 months of a gorgeous soul in my life? It's a damn sight better deal than any work place will ever give you, but no one tells you that. Some babies need more help than others, but they are all worth it.

I wouldn't worry about it, if I was you. It's all worth it. I will warn you, though, that when they are tiny babies they are not terribly interesting. Much more interesting now when he's trying everything out and discovering how much damage he can do to things and trying to learn everything going on around him and watching playschool and...

:-)
I'm looking forward to you having babies, and I'll be underfoot. :-)

[aphd3l.livejournal.com]

I agree with you totally; I don't tend to share the tiny little moments of joy, which do happen, but it's easier just to share the grief, which, looking back at mine in retrospective, is nothing and makes me embarrassed to even mention it.

It's definitely all worth it.

And I also agree about the experiment in how many ways you can kill your self! I have learnt that I can permanently survive off a minimum of 2 hours sleep, any less, and it doesn't work, but caffienated, I can do anything above 2. Above 4, and I'm only needing slight caffeination :)

I'm sorry to have heard of the trouble. I do like the "not a mouth toy", going to have to use that one myself!!