Whoops

[nanila]

Yesterday was a little more exciting than I'd planned. I did not, in fact, make it to London for work. Instead, I learnt the following.

1. If you are a pregnant woman and you fall over in a train station, even during rush hour, people tend to get a bit worried.
   
2. Trying to convince people you don't need an ambulance because you're fine (by being unable to walk due to pain) doesn't seem to work.
   
3. Hearing ambulance sirens outside a train station and clocking that they were for me now ranks in the top three Most Embarrassing Moments of my life.
   
4. Riding in an ambulance is an experience whose repetition I'd like to minimise in my future life.
   
5. The NHS carries on being amazing. Special plaudits to Birmingham City Hospital Maternity Triage for a thorough checkup and scanning the baby.

[I'm fine - well, sort of. But if I'm a bit tired and flaky the next few weeks - even more than I have been lately - I apologise in advance. Baby is fine (definitely).]

Comments

[antisoppist]

Eeeek. Glad you and the baby are fine. Re. 4 and 3, mine was phoning 999 because my then 2 year-old had had a fit and turned blue and having paramedics burst through the front door and instantly administer Calpol. Febrile convulsion. He had a cold. I let him get too hot. And then they took us to the hospital for checks because the NHS is brilliant, and told me not to feel too much like an idiot. As the paediatrician said at the time "well I'd always call an ambulance. We don't take chances."

[nanila]

Thank you. Humuhumu had febrile convulsions once when she was only a few months old, for exactly the same reason. We took her to hospital and of course by the time we got there she was fine. But as you relate, when it comes to babies and toddlers, it's not worth the risk of not going in.