We had a little commotion this morning. It all started by Aston waking me up by standing at the crib rail. Usually, when this happens I will just give Aston a hug and he will fall right back asleep. However, this time I noticed that his body was really hot. I quickly take out the digital thermometer, switched on the night light and check Aston's temperature. The thermometer read 39.7 degrees! I was shocked and was completely awake even though I had a drowsy cough syrup before I slept.
I quickly took out the suppository and lay him down on my bed thinking I should quickly insert it before the temperature goes up any higher. So, I changed his diaper first and then I tried to open the suppository but couldn't tear open the packaging with my hands. Desperate moment calls for desperate measures so I called daddy who was sleeping in the next room on his phone to bring in a pair of scissors. Daddy was shocked why at 3am I called him for a pair of scissors. I told him that Aston was having high fever so he quickly brought in the scissors.
Somehow, when I see daddy I started to calm down a little and thought do I really need to go to that extend as in to administer the suppository without even trying to give him some oral medication to bring down the temperature. So I asked daddy to check his temperature again and it was 39.1 degrees. It was a slight relief that his temperature came down a little so I decided to forgo the suppository and administer him nurofen instead. Daddy helped to cool Aston's temperature by wiping his forehead and neck with cloth soaked in ice water. After all that, we checked his temperature again and it was 38.7 degrees. Phew! I was relieved that his temperature reducing slowly. However, with all that commotion Aston became wide awake and started climbing up and down of my bed as if it's morning!
I tried to calm him down by switching off all the lights and it took him about an hour before falling asleep again. I checked his temperature again and it was 37.5 degrees. I finally fall asleep only to be woken up by my cough! At 6.30am I checked his temperature again and it was 36.8 degrees and so I moved him back into his crib so that we both can rest well.
Aston woke up at 9am this morning and his temperature went up again to 37.8 degrees. I fed him his milk and I freshen up myself. After feeding him breakfast, I checked his temperature again and it was 38 degrees. I gave him another dosage of Nurofen. This time, Aston had another problem. He was having constipation! He was trying really hard to push his stools out that he even cried! I can tell that he was very relieved after the stool was out and went back to his usual self. His temperature remain at 37.1-37.5 degrees through out the day.
Just before dinner, he let out a mega explosion of soft stools and daddy said Aston has recovered because he looked much more contented after the poo. Well, I certainly hope so too! What triggers this 3Am commotion I really have no idea!
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