Yesterday I spent an hour and and half in Accident and Emergency with baby M. The reason was simple. I was in the kitchen next to the sink. Baby M had speedily crawled to the ‘forbidden kitchen cupboard door’. Said door did have a safety latch, but said latch had recently been broken and said latch had not been replaced.
I turned around to talk to Jake and/or Amy. Then within seconds Amy was shrieking. I looked down and saw that Mia was holding a laundry tablet. Ordinarily this wouldn’t have caused such alarm. What caused the alarm was the fact that the laundry tablet had been nibbled.
Amy hoiked Mia up and began to fish out the offending frothy tablet. Mia started crying 1. because of the taste of the tablet and 2. because of the undignified manner in which Amy was rooting through her mouth(or mah as Jake used to call it). Anyway after a glug of water she was right as rain. Amy phoned the doctor and we were told to get to the hospital a.s.a.p.
At the hospital we were triaged and then had to wait until a doctor was available. In my haste I had omitted to bring any food or milk. Mia clocked another baby’s milk and went into meltdown. Luckily we were seen very soon after and luckily after her examination the doctor was happy that Mia was okay.
Let this be a lesson learnt. 1. Fix the door 2. Do not leave an opened laundry tab packet in the laundry tab box 3. keep a closer eye on baby M.