your more than welcome hun, we are always here (well I am after incidents like we had today lol). You get some rest xxxxx

Hmh, it just sounds wildly over cautious. Often a temp is a good thing, as it means baby is fighting a little something and it is usually done fairly quickly and within the comfort of their home. If you try to stop it, by intervening with medicine and the like then you affect their body's ability to fight whatever it is that they're fighting. So, as a general rule... don't give calpol/etc. unless their temp is over 39 or they seem to be in pain and there's no need to seek medical advice until the temp is over 40 or will not come down with calpol/etc. if they seem otherwise well.

Obviously, if coupled with other worrying symptoms you should always have it checked out but generally, it's OK to look after baby yourself if they are otherwise well.

I know I'm a bit late now but does she ever suffer with reflux?

Being sick, refusing feeds and crying when not upright are all signs...so its a possibility.

And the temp could just be because she'd been crying and you'd been cuddling her?

I hope she's OK today

Could she be teething? When my LO started she oddly woke up screaming/sobbing in the night, which she never did before, and it put her off her food, they can get a temperature with it too?

i took alfie to a and e because he was vomiting and had diarroreah his temp was 38.8, they immediatly gave hime ibuprofen and calpol and told me to strip him off to get temp down his blood suagr was 13.9 (normall is around 7)
i would always err on the side of caution babies can deteriate so quickly!!
alfie is fine now but they told me i did exactly the right thing by taking him in

I have always been told by every health professional that 38 degrees is when you take babies to hospital or call the emergency doctor as the high end of babies' "normal" temperature is 37.2 degrees. Perhaps the health professionals say different things in different areas, although 38 degrees was also the cut off point stated when my friend's child was poorly in Portugal last year so would seem to be pretty universally accepted by professionals, and would certainly be the temp I'd use for my "panic button" with H.

In your case though BB, if lo's temp has dropped on it's own then I wouldn't worry as fever isn't ALWAYS a bad thing and is natures way of preventing some bugs and viruses getting worse. (clever things our bodies!).

Hope your lo continues to get better and her feeding is soon back to normal. There are some tummy bugs around at the mo. H has a little upset at the mo and for a couple of days before it turned up she's was taking less of her feeds (she's ff and usually polishes off 180mls no problem but only took about 120/150 for a couple of feeds) but seems fine in herself apart from being a little clingy bless her. Perhaps your lo has something similar on the way (although I hope not!!)

Xx

there are lots and lots of bugs going around. my little boy has been ill for 3 days with a temp of 38.5 that goes down with calpol! he has been very uninterested in feeding which is unusual as he is normally a pig. but took him to dr and he said its prob viral and today he is much better. so dont worry too much hun they are very resiliant! xx

I thought it was 38 too. As a mummy you'll know when you need to move to hospital anyway hun. Hope you feel better now after your stressful night x

I hope your LO is better today. Could she have been overexcited/overtired by things? The only time my LO has ever been like that is when she's been overstimulated and then gets too tired. Then she won't eat or sleep although she's desperately tired. It was scary the first time it happened!