an eventful 24 hours

for the most exciting news of this blog.....ZOE SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!! we are talking from 9:00pm to 8ish am. for all you non-parents out there this is a most momentous occasion and although i ended up getting up a few times anyhow cause my milk production was going a little spastic (and i wanted to make sure she was still breathing) i felt amazing the next day.

with hopeful intent we put her down the next night with an extra large top up feed only to have our tues night telly watching interrupted by a squealing zoza. squealing and exceptionally hot zoza...she had a fever of 38.6c° ahhhhhhhhhhh what do you do? initially we scanned all our baby books and various internet sites but ended up resorting to the trusty home midwifery service (yeah i know i've long been discharged but i don't know who else to call over at the hospital and given i have already annoyed them with other urgent questions they know me by now). at the time of the call zoe's temperature had decreased to 38.4c° and the nurse recommended baby panadol unless her temperture was above 38.5c° at which point she would have to go to hospital to be checked over. hmmm, now i know i'm a scientist and all but the difference of 0.1c° for a radically different course of action is a little concerning. we opted for the baby panadol and a reassessment an hour later. obtaining baby panadol at midnight on a week day in this city of millions is another blog entry all together but we did manage to get our hands on some, administer it to a spluttering zoe (cherry flavour is evidently not her favourite flavour) and thankfully she was back to her usual self within the hour.

so although we are pretty certain that sleeping through the night does not cause high temperatures the following night we'd love to risk it again for an entire nights sleep!!!