It's hard
@tom_e
My family are quite local, my mum is a few minutes around the corner and we have a good support network with friends but it doesn't always cover things. My partners family are all 90 minutes away so can't really help.
My partner, fortunately, has flexi hours and works from home otherwise we'd be buggered. Like today, we think her teething has picked back up and she is beyond grumpy and has a temperature so can't go into nursery so my partner is stuck home alone with her and I feel really guilty that I can't help as I am in the office, living the dream talking to you guys. I had to take the day off a few weeks back because both of them were written off.
Life is beautifully ironic at times. I think it was Monday night we were in bed talking about how lucky we have been the last couple of weeks without anything major happening and how we were out of the mess that is teething... Tuesday came and she is a dribbling mess again and barely sleeping and all around furious. We should've kept out mouths shut!
Edit:
Though, something we are struggling with and have no idea how to get around this. She
hates Calpol/Nurofen. It's always a fight to get her to take it to the point we have to almost force it into her. That was fine when she was a baby and couldn't put up much of a fight but now she can and when we do get it into her mouth, she just spits it out. We're at a loss because we know when she does eventually take it, she feels better but she just hasn't made that connection in her head yet.
I'm even more confused because Nurofen tastes really nice! It would make times when she is ill so much easier on all of us if we didn't feel like we were forcing her to do something she doesn't want to