Parent School

Through Liz from playgroup, I found out about a parenting course that has government funding through the schools as communities project. I enrolled yesterday, and started the first of three sessions today. Childcare is provided on site, so Inigo had his first taste of childcare today.

I was right next door (in an old building), so I could hear if he screamed. And after yesterday, I was understandably nervous about leaving him with strangers.

The training is on a system called 1-2-3 Magic, and I really can’t tell you much about it because you can’t cover much in 2.5 hours. Especially when you have a sick kid in the room next door.

Yup, the raised temp is back. During the break I went in to check on him and he felt a little warm, but I decided not to panic as he was still acting pretty happy, and the class would be over in less than an hour.

After class we went to the cheap chemist and I blew the better part of $100 on a high accuracy ear thermometer and some nurofen (which the doc at the hospital recommended if we need to re-dose before we can give more panadol). At 4pm his temp was 38.5, so I dosed him up and put him to bed.

Usually he has trouble going to sleep for his afternoon nap, but this afternoon he slept for more than 2 hours and had to be woken for dinner. He was drenched in sweat, but his temperature was back to normal.

And yesterday I weighed him on the new scales I bought last week. He was 9.1kg – up 300gms from last week, and squarely above the 50th percentile line on the WHO growth chart for the first time.

I could cry.