H is on anti b for chest infection. Anyway when oh went it to check on boys last night Lewis was having trouble breathing so he got him up and brought him in our room. He started coughing like a right barky cough and raspy breathing. So tried to prop him up etc and eventually he fell asleep. He woke a couple more times with this cough. I suspected it could be croup. This morning he seems ok so read up on croup and it's says usually starts in the night etc etc so phoned docs no appointments today even though I said it was an 8m old baby. So phoned back spoke to nurse and explained symptoms and she's got me an app at 11.40am. Why couldn't the receptionist have put me through to nurse in first place grrrrr makes me mad!

how bloody annoying, some doctors receptionists seem to think they own the bloody surgery
hop lewis is feeling better soon, croup is quite distressing for all of you, its quite a scarty thing to watch when you think theyre not breating very well but its usually not serious, hopefully will clear up soon xx

Amanda pop into bathroom with him and close door and window and run hot taps to create steam it helps a lot with croup

it does wonders, or even patting their back and getting them upright usually loosens the mucus too x

Thanks ladies. Doc said it's croup so going to see how he is tonight x

Its usually worse at night so def worth the steam treatment if it starts overnight. It doesn always needs treatment unless its causing breathing difficulties in which case a dose of steroids can be given, fingers crossed its all over soon

Aww poor Lewis hope he's better soon xxx

day 3/4 is the worst too iv always found

that drives me mad!!!

when we had the car accident a few weeks back we wanted to get lily-ann checked out by her own doc(they know her condition better than a walk-in) called up two days in a row to ask for appointments, within 5mins of opening time, we were told all appointments had gone...went to walk in, they decided she was better off seeing her own gp, the walk in doc called up our docs surgery and instantly got an appointment for a couple of hours later...it#s a huge p*ss off


i hope the lil guy is ok!!

Thanks girls. Put Him to bed but he woke half an hr later crying which was makin him cough. I've gone upstairs to bed and put him next to me propped up he seems ok in himself but don't want him getting distressed so looks like he is sleeping with us again poor thing.

awww bless him ! ,, my oldest had croup when he was a wee toot , ended up getting a nebulizer and prescription from docs

having him sleep as upright as possible might help a bit x