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A little bit of drama

So I just have to tell you about Sunday, Sunday was absolute and utter chaos in the van Wyk van Rooyen household...

After Luka's first night home, we were rather shattered, pajama drill is not for the feint hearted, and surprise surprise, we have grannies and grandads all visiting the pink princess on this day, happiness all around, until around 3am on Sunday morning, Liam stands next to our bed, he has a raging fever and the worst illness in the world, jip, you guessed it, diarrhea!

I am absolutely petrified that this bug will spread, and poor Liam now washes his hands on the hour, he may not kiss his new sister (terrible and heartbreaking, I know) and so a long day begins.

Gerhard takes Liam to the doc at 13h00, some meds, but Liam seems over the worst.

Then at around 16h00, Gerhard runs to Woollies for some groceries, and I wait for a good friend to come and meet Luka, Luka is also feeding whilst we watch Shrek 2 for the umpteenth time in the space of six hours.

Now, if you are squeamish, stop reading now, seriously, stop, go and watch TV instead.

Liam decides its time for a wee wee, goes to the toilet, gets on his little step, makes a wee, and has serious diarrhea at the same time, I felt like crying - my whole bathroom was literally covered in shit! 

Welcome to the world of being a mom of two...what followed involved Luka lying next to Calvin the cat on the spare bed, me sticking Liam in the bath tub, cleaning up this horrid mess, trying to answer the phone signalling the arrival of said friend.  Funny now, but at that stage, ai, I wanted to die.

Then at around 19h00 Liam is in the bath, and guess what?  Yes, Luka now has diarrhea too, 4 days old and sick!  At around 21h00 she starts screaming and refuses to feed, so we call Sekai to look after Liam, who now has a raging fever (again) and we rush off to the emergency rooms at Unitas.  They check her out and confirm that yes, she has a stomach bug, severe cramps, but she is ok, as long as she stays hydrated.  So a couple of hundred rand and some medicine later we go back home, thank heavens, I just got discharged from hospital a day before.

Now I know that you can give a four day old infant 1 ml of buscopan, and 1 drop of panado for infants.  And reuteri, reuteri, reuteri.  It just drives Gerhard insane that this specific strain of pro-biotic was cultivated from the breast milk of a Peruvian woman.  Some trivia to brighten up your day.

All in all, everyone is fine now, I had two kids at home on Monday, thank heavens Liam was good as gold, we even managed to nap, all three of us.

Liam is back at school, Luka is 100%, so all in all, despite shitty start, we are all ok. 

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