Cuddling and nursing Miles through the night, (again), last night, I remembered something Vera Scheibner (world renowned homeopath) said at one of her lectures I attended. She said feverish illnesses in children are a blessing, a visitation by the goddess.
I'm tired, weary and and crusty. I want some sleep, I want a wash. I want to feel less like a camel hyde flip flop and more like a human being.
If this is a visitation by a goddess, (and I'm not saying it is), then she has outstayed her welcome. Please leave.
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Hmm, not sure I understand the visitation by the goddess thing...
Hope you're all much fresher and better soon. :)
I think she believes that feverish illnesses in children help them to develop strong immune systems for later life, bring about long term health benefits (once over the initial fever) and can also enhance development. I think the goddess bit just reflects her religious/spiritual views.
Some of her views have been backed by some research. I'm not entirely sure to what extent I agree with everything she says about fever - all I know is that I hate dealing with it at the time :-) It's very worrying and very draining - and of course really horrid for the child too.
Yeah, I sort of get it, but I do think sometimes people saying things like that can be spectacularly unhelpful - like you're not doing it right because you can't see the benefits, if you see what I mean.
Yes I see what you mean.
I think nursing a child with a fever is very difficult - balancing the need to allow the temperature to rise enough to kill virus/bacteria while also avoiding the temperatur going so high as to risk a fit.
I find it quite frightening to be honest. It's similar (in my mind)to that whole hot potato of whether or not to take antibiotics in the early stages when something could be viral but also could be bacterial.
I tend to use a mixture of both allopathic and alternative medicine in looking after my family. Medicine certainly isn't an exact science and I think there is huge scope for us parents to experience lots of stress, confusion and guilt in caring for sick children.
((((hugs))))
oh, looking after sick children is horrid, you worry so much about them and then the lack of sleep seems to you just as they get their bounce back ;0)
hoping that M regains his bounce v. soon and you get to catch up on sleep.
take care
A. xx
Thank you.
Craig has just gone to collect some shortbread and sundried tomato bread that a friend has baked for us because I'm too knackered to cook. Guess it's not all bad :-)
aww hope he is soon better darlin xx
hi claire. i can totally empathise. this week i,ve had my youngest 3 ill together with a nasty d&v bug with accompanying fever, chills and extreme tiredness.me and dh took it in turns staying awake for 3 nights.the youngest 2 have been bfing with a vengeance through it.thankfully today saw a big improvement. this goddess has a warped sense of humour doesn,t she? sending get better vibes. :-)
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