O.K. how many people here are pregnant?

So Ive been thinking its just me.
I guess Im going nuts...

All week Adria has been a dream around Eric.
But during the day and getting her down for naps has been horrid.
Shes been waking from naps and just screaming for a 1/2 hr.
Pretty much throwing a fit. Nothing to console her.

So today I had enough and said to Eric take her to the clinic and she must have an ear infection or something cause if this is some sort of a phase I might call him home from work and let him deal with her.
She has had a runny nose the past few days but I was sure there was something more.

Eric thought I was nuts.
She been so good when hes around.

HA
Ear infection!!!
I knew it.
Thank god she can take something and get better.

Of course now I have her cold.
But my ears feel fine.

Anyone who has kids starting to walk wonder if the general public thinks you must be beating your child?
MAn,
Adria cant seem to go a week without some sort of head trauma.
And shes been walking great for a good 5 months now!

So my friends little boy just had the weirdest string of events so I thought I would share.
He is 16 months.
He got and ear infection after having a bout of the flu.
So he was put on Ammoxicillan.
But he got hives from it.
So the put him on a sulfa drug.
But that gave him gut rot and he absolutley burnt his bum with his acid poops.
So they went back to the doctor.
And then he went on a drug called Bioxin I belive.
And then he broke out in another rash.
At this piont my friend said screw this and went to the herbal store to get him some homeopathic remedies.
Well her mom suggests that the second rash wasnt like the first.
It wasnt like hives.
And that her and her sister got what she called "baby measles" when they were both little and that might be what he had when that seond rash happened. It might not have been a second allergic reaction.
So this is what she found on the internet.


Baby Measles



By Diane Sacks




My 16-month-old has been diagnosed with "baby measles." (She was vaccinated at 12 months.) I can't find any information on it. What's the difference between red measles and baby measles?



Red measles, or rubeola, is a serious viral disease that is almost always prevented by the vaccine children receive at 12 to 15 months. The symptoms are high fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes, followed by a rash a few days later. The rash usually begins on the face and spreads over the entire body. Rubeola is contagious three to five days before symptoms occur, and up to four days after the rash appears. It can have major complications, such as pneumonia, encephalitis and convulsions.


Baby measles, or roseola, is caused by a different virus and is very common in children from six to 24 months of age. (It's rare before four months and after four years.) Children who have baby measles may have very high fevers but are surprisingly well and active, although their appetite may be down. The rash doesn't appear until the fever goes down and it's then that your child gets cranky.


It's hard to diagnose roseola before the rash comes out; swollen glands on the back of the head near the nape of the neck give one clue. Unfortunately, many kids are given antibiotics unnecessarily just to treat the fever. Then, when the rash appears, it looks like there's an allergy to the antibiotic. Children should not be given antibiotics unless we know what we are treating. The exception is in very young infants under three to four months, and only after tests are done and the child has been closely followed.


Roseola is contagious, but not very serious. I always thought the most serious part of it was the damage to parents' mental health: first dealing with the high fever; second, coping with a miserable child once the rash breaks out. My sympathies


Interesting huh?
Just thought it might be something to keep in mind if anyone gets into a similar situation.