Aaron's Blog

Since Tuesday this week, Aaron has been very poorly indeed.  He has had a very high temperature with it reaching 39.5 degrees at one point! Kelly has hardly slept as he hasn’t wanted to sleep in his cot so she has had to stay up with him. The poor little man still had an appetite but was sooo hot all the time and just didn’t look very well at all. On Tuesday night Kelly got hold of NHS Direct for some advice as we were quite worried due to his high temperature, and they said that if it got to 40 degrees, then we should call a doctor.

Luckily, it didn’t reach that high, but stayed high enough for Kelly to call our normal Doctors on Thursday but they were useless as usual. They had no appointments so a doctor called her back and basically said the opposite to the NHS direct doctor. Our doctor said it was probably viral and it would pass in 7 to 10 days – no offer of a check over just in case or anything! In the end, the little man started to lose his high temperature during the day but still wouldn’t settle on his own to go to sleep even though he was absolutely shattered. In the end, I took him out for a ride in the car at half 10 last night to see if that would make a difference, and it did thankfully. Aaron feel asleep in the car but unfortunately woke when we got home. Even so, it didn’t take too much effort to get him back to sleep and he managed to stay in his cot and slept most of the night – not getting up till about 8am. Phew!

So, it looks like the worst of it is over now so fingers crossed he will make a full recovery in the next day or so and that we will all, finally, get a good nights sleep tonight!

A couple of weeks before Christmas Aaron suddenly started to learn things very quickly. Within the space of a few days, he learnt how to clap his hands and sit up on his own. The clapping hands is especially great as he has a big smile on his face when he does it! He also started babbling as well saying mamamamamam and dadadadada and laughing to himself.  It is very funny to watch!

In the last day or so, I have managed to teach him how to nod his head for ‘yes’ though he obviously doesn’t know what ‘yes’ means yet! He was doing it whilst sat on the bed last night, and nodded so much he nearly fell off the bed!! Lucky Kelly was next to him to catch him!

He is growing up real quick! 😉

Aaron has been on solid (well mushy) food for several weeks now and he is really enjoying it and usually eats his little bowl full all up!

He mostly has either mushed up Rusk with milk, or Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato mixed together, but he has also sampled Roast Chicken, Stew and Spaghetti Bolognese. He has also been partial to a bit of Prawn Cracker and Toast! 😉

He is also having Mummy’s milk still, just to top him up but he seems to be wanting proper food more and more now!

This food is certainly doing him good as he is growing into a big and sturdy strong lad!

Aaron has and is still getting over his first proper illness which is Croup. This a virus in the respiratory tract and has caused Aaron to struggle to breath. In fact one night this week he woke up in a panic and he was really bad and we were on the verge of calling for an ambulance as he was really struggling to breath. Luckily he calmed down but Kelly had to stay up with him all night, just in case.

The following day we took him to the doctors who diagnosed it as a moderate case of Croup and gave us a prescription for a steroid table to give to him. After he took that, he cleared up really well and didn’t struggle to breathe any more, which was a major relief! Croup can get so bad that it can stop babies from breathing!

He now still has a bit of a cold and a chesty cough but nowhere near as bad as it was.  Hopefully he will get over it in a few days!

Here is a lovely picture of Aaron and Daddy taken at Lappa Valley Railway at the end of August.

Aaron and his Daddy