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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Failure To Thrive'
Wi-fi and the potential health risks
May 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Failure To Thrive, Reports and Research, Rescuing Childhood
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Failure to thrive: epilogue
April 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Failure To Thrive
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 with [...]
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Onwards but not upwards
February 9th, 2007 · Comments Off · All Gone Wrong, Dog Days, Failure To Thrive
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 7th, 2007 · No Comments · All Gone Wrong, Failure To Thrive
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 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Failure To Thrive
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 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Daily Life, Failure To Thrive
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 27th, 2006 · No Comments · Failure To Thrive, Parenting
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 [...]
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Not so worried about relieving the congestion at the top end
September 14th, 2006 · No Comments · Daily Life, Failure To Thrive
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 [...]
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Nose bags and penises
June 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Failure To Thrive, Parenting
Three weeks ago this evening we had asparagus for supper. The next morning Ben, who at five months is still exclusively breastfed apart from something like a huge bowl of porridge at breakfast, a large bowl of baby rice at lunch and a dinner plate full of apple puree, had what I have come [...]
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