{"id":44,"date":"2007-03-02T19:40:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T19:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2007-03-02T19:47:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T19:47:04","slug":"visiting-the-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another midwife today. This one was happy that Jessica’s yellow-ish skin tone didn’t look too bad and also told us that it can take up to several weeks for jaundice to clear properly. So I guess we shouldn’t panic if it doesn’t go in the next few days… We keep Jessica in our nicely-bright living room, in the carry cot with a big white sheet draped around it, and as the weather has been sunny the last few days, hopefully she’s absorbing a lot of much needed UV light.<\/p>\n

Jessica also got to lie on a set of scales again, and promptly weed all over them… (This didn’t faze the midwife, of course.) Jessica’s weight was recorded as 3.7 kilos, so she’s lost a bit again, more this time. However, still a perfectly acceptable weight loss. And we sort of got what might be the explanation for it, too: for a couple of days we’d noticed what we thought was just a milky residue on her tongue – after the midwife’s quick examination this turned out to be thrush. Nothing to worry about, she said, as it’d been caught early, but it would be likely to cause poor little Jessica some discomfort when trying to feed. Especially in the early hours of this morning, Jessica and I had spent a couple of hours with Jessica desperately wanting to feed but seemingly unable to attach herself properly, resulting in very intermittant feeding. Discomfort from thrush could explain why she’d suddenly seemed to have lost her feeding skills (which she’d certainly improved on in the last few days before then).<\/p>\n

The midwife said to see a GP, and as soon as she’d left Ian made the phone call. We got an appointment straightaway, and dug out our Baby Bj\u00c3\u00b6rn carrier for the first time – our surgery is just a few doors away down our street and it took literally two minutes to get there. The midwife’s diagnose got confirmed by the GP and Jessica was given her first pharmacy prescription, in the name of ‘Miss Female Lillsunde’. The treatment was a gel, to be put on her tongue after feeding, twice a day, and the thrush should clear in a few days. Very common in infants, the GP confirmed, and no need to worry. We’ll just have to start giving her the gel and hopefully this will improve things very soon.<\/p>\n

In the afternoon, Ian’s parents came over to have some tea and biscuits and admire their grandchild again – always very welcome. We’re hoping for more visits this weekend – a few people have been in touch and we’re looking forward to being a bit more sociable now that the three of us have come through the first week and a bit together.<\/p>\n

And to finish: a piccie of me and Jessica together – I finally let go of the camera and let Ian take a photo of Mum and daughter together.<\/p>\n

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Yet another midwife today. This one was happy that Jessica’s yellow-ish skin tone didn’t look too bad and also told us that it can take up to several weeks for jaundice to clear properly. So I guess we shouldn’t panic if it doesn’t go in the next few days… We keep Jessica in our nicely-bright […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianandgabriella.co.uk\/babyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}