My doctor's office always calls back very promptly. They are a very big practice and a someone is always available. I would be totally pissed if that happened to me. I totally wouldn't stay with that practice either, and I'd make it VERY clear why.

How is your son doing now?

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You alternate them every three hours. It helps lower fevers.

Good luck tonight. It'll be a long one for you.

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Aw, Modelmom, I'm so sorry your little guy isn't feeling well. I know it's scary, but he will be just fine. Until then, give him lots of hugs and kisses, keep checking his temperature, and keep calling that doctor. And maybe some Pedialyte would help.

I tend to think that cutting teeth doesn't "cause" the fever, and it shouldn't cause listlessness, but I think that because they put all kinds of things in their mouths to try and ease the pain, maybe they pick up something. But I could be wrong on that. The best news is that your son sounds very healthy, and he should be able to get better very quickly. Good luck you you both until then.

Was he really wild the day before he got sick? Both of my kids go completely batty when they are getting sick, so it's kind of a predictor of when to expect something, and better yet, it can help you sort of pinpoint when he got sick, and what the cause might have been.

Yeah, the grumpiness or the wildness- I've noticed both. I just to just dismiss it as they were having an off day, but I've gotten better at picking up on when they are going to be sick. My son usually does the grumpiness, while my daughter becomes a whirling dervish.

Good luck to both of you.

I'm anxious to hear how he is doing...

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I am so glad you worte this. I have had a million problems finding a good doctor for my baby. I have had absolutely awful experiences. I think I'll blog about one of them today but here's one that was really scary:
When my son, Luke was about a week old he had only had one BM. I though it was odd. So I called the doctor and the guy told me that it's perfectly normal. I never had kids before so obviously I trusted him. Another three days pass, still no BM. I call back. The doctor tells me I don't need an appointment, just switch Luke to Soy formula. So I do that. five days later, still nothing. The baby is crying non stop...I can imagine why. So I make an emergancy appointment anyway. The doctor barely even looks my son over and tell me to give the infant PRUNE JUICE! Now, as I said, I knew nothing about kids. I just went by what the doc told me was right. While at that appointment I asked the doctor if he could look at my ear. I had been having terrible pain in it. I had never experienced any problems before. He told me it was wax build up and to put peroxide in to remove it. I buy the stuff and do this.

Another few days pass. My ear is so bad I was crying. My son was screaming from his pain too. Then I discover that a friend of the family is a doctor. I call the man nd he was shocked, and horrified, that this doctor was having me give a three week old prune juice. I guess it can actually kill an infant because their system is not able to break down the sugars (?). So I go to the friend doctor for an emergany appointment. My insurance, HAP, wouldn't cover it because the friend doctor was not Lukes Primary Physican, even though doctor #1 is a quack!
So I find out that all my son needed was some laxatives! That's it! He didn't need Soy or Prune!
The good doctor also looks at my ear and finds out that water was trapped inside. Without proper treatment I could have gone deaf. By this point my entire right ear was swollen shut from infection. The peroxide had ruptured some membrane or something and made things way worse! I had to be rushed to the emergancy room and had to undergo minor surgey! For three weeks I had these huge cotton gauze strips sticking out of my ear. The gauze was holding my swollen ear canal apart because ia barrier had to be inserted so the water can drain.

Ao I can understand first hand how terrible doctors can be. It's scary because we pay these people to help us and we trust thir judgement.
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Thanks for asking how he is doing today! Thankfully his fever broke a little after 10am and he has been his normal self all day although his apetite is still not fully back, but that's understandable. He keeps grinding his teeth too so it really must have to do with his 2 year molars...and he let me get my ginfer back in his mouth & I felt pretty swollen gums abck there. Poor guy!

I felt empathy as I read your story about the Dr and your baby's BM. When I had my third child (so don't feel dumb) it seemed everything about him was abnormal. Choking, breathing, BM's ...almost everything. Almost every day for the first 3 weeks I had to call his Dr about something... I live in a small town so we have much more access to them but they also know us personally. It was embarrassing because they started treating me like a "First Time Mom " ---you know --over worried about nothing.
After 5 days of no BM, I needed to call them again but I was scared of their judgement. I thought about calling up and disguising my voice with an accent ---" Hola, This is Juanita Chaquita Bonitez and in five days now my little bambino he no go poop."
I would have done it too, but then I imagined what I would hear on the other end---" Kathy! We know that's you!"
Oh well...I guess in both of our cases ....it came out OK...in the end!

Ohmigod, I LOVE the "disguised voice"! I never thoguth of that but it is such a good idea! Oh, I'm laughing while typing this!
I can totally relate to calling the doc daily. Sometimes i would call different offices to ask their poinion so I didn't harass one dr. too much!

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As far as the BM with children thing goes, here's my horror story with doctors.

My son was born, and he had some problems with jaundice because he was a BIG baby and it was a difficult delivery. He had to be on the bililights, so there were other concerns for us. Still, we noticed he wasn't really pooping. Because we were breastfeeding, we knew that it was supposed to be loose, but we could tell the difference between loose stools and urine. We told the doctor, and they chalked it up as us not knowing the difference between the two. He had one BM that first week, and that was it for a while.

At every appointment I brought it up (that should tell you how long this went on). For SIX WEEKS, he went without pooping. SIX (insert curse here) weeks!!!!! And the doctor used the excuse, "Some people have a different schedule." WTF?!?!?!?!?!??!?! Yeah, some go once a day and some go twice, but there ain't nobody going 6 weeks by choice.

We decide it's time to see another doctor. They don't know what to do. We find another. No clue. Each of these try a little harder, but most come to some conclusion that eventually the body will evacuate itself. I come to the conclusion that medical school involves heavy drinking.

So we go on for almost 4 years until we find a place of employment where we lived on the premises. There were doctors on staff, and one of them was one of the nation's leading child psychologists, and better yet, his own son was encopretic. That's the name for the condition my son has (encopresis). My son got treatment, and now, with a set schedule that he has to poop by, he's fine. Before that, he was going once every few months with a BM so violent that it would cause him to shake and scream in pain.

The doctors in that whole city were worthless (obviously). So I stopped taking him there.