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Failure To Thrive

Wi-fi and the potential health risks

May 21, 2007

When Ben was about four months old he became poorly. As the months passed and he failed to thrive we considered every possible cause while the hospital continued to test him without any success. I had been using the internet while I breastfed and it crossed my mind, fleetingly, that the wi-fi in our house [...]

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Failure to thrive: epilogue

April 19, 2007

I haven’t written much about my son Ben’s medical problems because they are his, not mine, and I am mindful of his future privacy. I have, however, been writing over the last year about my worries about him and my increasing sense of desperation as he continued to slip down the weight charts. So it [...]

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Onwards but not upwards

February 9, 2007

One month ago today my dog died. Today I got a call from the vet telling me that our surviving dog is showing signs of having the same disease that Brin died from. On Tuesday I will be taking her to the same referral vet in Bristol that called me with the devastating news about [...]

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Overcoming failure-to-thrive

February 7, 2007

Every year Matthew is home for the twelve days of Christmas. It’s a tradition in our household and we spend it doing family things, visiting friends and family and on twelfth night we take down the Christmas decorations and put up our eldest son’s birthday party decorations. It’s a good way to round off the [...]

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Obstruction

January 23, 2007

The baby starts screaming. I pick him up quickly, holding him in our practiced way under his thighs, feeling his body convulsing and shaking as he cries in pain into my shoulder. I reassure him, swaying gently to soothe him, knowing that trying to distract him will make him cry more. We stay like that [...]

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A belated Christmas story

January 18, 2007

The lead up to Christmas was massively exciting this year with two preschoolers to whip each other into a frenzy over Father Christmas and all the attendant excitement that the holiday season brings. We read Christmas stories by candlelight before bedtime. We made advent calendars. We coloured in one hundred and three Christmas colouring book [...]

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Failure to thrive

September 27, 2006

My youngest son had a rough start to life in a brightly-lit operating theatre on a gloomy night in January. Now a bouncing, smiley eight months old, he has nonetheless had a number of minor health problems which have combined to make him feel pretty miserable and irritable. A urine infection several months ago meant [...]

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Not so worried about relieving the congestion at the top end

September 14, 2006

The baby is desperately constipated. Watching him in such pain has been awful and we have tried everything medical and otherwise in the book to sort out his intestines without much joy. But I think I’ve found the solution: with cold season upon us again Ben has suffered with a series of nasty colds and [...]

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