Re: Baby has pneumonia PS...

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Fire your daycare:) UNACCEPTABLE about painting. Ridiculous. What

else has she done? It's impossible to cover all of the " what if's "

but you clearly want someone that has the ability to distinguish what

the right thing to do is.

>

> Just as so many of you here, I have steadfastly refused to

vaccinate

> my soon to be one year old daughter. And like so many of you here,

I

> had to stand up to my husband, relatives, friends, colleagues,

> pediatrician.... Shelby was born last january 2nd, and never had a

> cold until she entered daycars this past September (no surprise)..I

> gave her watered down Emergen-C for a while and she was fine...And

> yes, everyone always comments on how healthy and happy and

> intelligent she is... Flash forward to last week...I pick her up at

> daycare and there are red circles under her eyes....then again the

> next day..I found out after 3 days of red circles that the daycare

> provider has decided to paint her basement playroom! Sand and

paint!

> In the middle of a NY winter!!!! She was keeping the kids (my baby

> and her 5 and 2 year old) upstairs. Fumes rise. (Also the 5 year

> old had his flushot the week before..and had stayed home the next

> day...) Shelby develops a dry cough...I suspect the paint and am

> glad the holidays are coming so I can keep her home....By this past

> Satm, her nose was running...ALOT...then by Sunday, she had 103

> fever!!! This is her first fever....I read all that Dr mendelson

and

> others had said about fever....I had a house full of people

badgering

> me to get her tylenol/motrin SOMETHINg to bring the fever down...I

> caved..she was sooooo hot.....She stayed sick Monday...by Tuesday I

> brought her to doc..doc said it was a cold..a bad cold...what a

> relief!!! Baby played and ate and seemed better...started coughing

> again in the night...HERE " s THE PART FOR THIS GROUP- Doc calls me

> this morning and says that when she sent us home- SHE FORGOT THE

BABT

> WAS NON-VAXED= SO I NEED TO BRING HER BACK FOR MORE TESTS!!!!!

> WHAT????? Sure enough...a blood count...(14,0000) and a chest x-

ray

> show she has pneumonia.....Yes, I put her on amoxicillin.....and am

> avoiding the fever reducer...but basically, please, please, I'm so

> very scared. She's not even a year old, please, if anyone's been

> thru pneumonia I would appreciate any advice or comfort you could

> give on these special days. And no, I'm not swayed and will still

> refuse vaccines. (if anything I regret caving in to pressure and

> giving her the Motrin, had I not done so, maybe her body would've

> fought off the intial virus...oh-PS_ the babysitters kids are all

> SICk with respiratory issues!!!! THANKS AGAIN FOR ANY HELP.

Peace.

> yvette

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