Poor sick baby

Posted by Nikki Montgomery on

thermometerMy sister watched Mia yesterday and said that she was a sleepy girl. She put herself down for 3 naps and wouldn't eat. When she got home she just wanted to cuddle and sleep. She felt really warm so when she woke up we took her temperature. Of course the clinic always asks for the rectal temperature so that's what we took and it was 103 so not high enough to take her in, but we needed to do something to bring it down.

Mia refused to take Tylenol, we tried the syringe and we tried the pacifier medicine dispenser and neither worked. Finally we had to just hold her down and force her to take it. I hated doing it, but her fever had lasted over 2 hours by that point. About an hour later her temperature had gone down and she was up playing. When we put her to bed she put up no fight she just rolled right over and went to sleep. When I checked on her this morning she seemed to have shaken the fever. 

What do you suggest to help break a fever? 

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