A Mother's Dance

It seems like my nearly 9 month old son Ezra has gotten one illness after the other.

First it was the flu, then the spotty red rashes (I still don’t know what caused them) and now since Monday morning he’s got conjunctivitis, it's not as serious as other children I've seen though....touch wood!

We had baby swimming lessons Monday morning at 11am, which was his first time ever swimming (besides in the bath). But I am pretty sure he had it earlier that morning, just in the one eye, so I don’t think the conjunctivitis was from the swimming pool. It may be from just bacteria getting in his eye when he wipes it with his fingers.

Although yuck and unsightly, conjunctivitis in babies isn’t serious, although it is contagious, so this morning I cancelled mothers group which I was meant to host as I didn’t want to pass it on to the other babies.

Since Monday we have just been wiping his eye with a clean warm cloth. As of this morning it’s gone to his other eye too, so this afternoon I went out and asked the chemist what I can use for it. The pharmacist said the eye droppers over the counter will irritate Ezra more than anything, and suggested we go get a prescription from the doctor to get a solution that will be more baby friendly. I wasn’t going to go to the doctor, wait 2 hours to see them and pay $65 just for conjunctivitis solution though. So the pharmacist gave me a saline solution and cotton balls and said that should work. I’ll use it tonight if need be and see how it goes; otherwise I’ll just go back to trusty ole water.

The conjunctivitis isn’t bothering him though, only when he can’t open his eyes when he wakes up!

If you want to know more about conjunctivitis, one mum on minti.com seems to have a bit of experience with it, see her post on recognising and treating conjunctivitis.