My little girl (17m) is poorly for the first time and it’s breaking my heart.

I just wrote a post asking how to make administering medication less stressful for my little girl but I feel so sad I need to say something. It’s now 1.30am. I’m covered in penicillin sick and precious baby tears. Plus my own tears. She’s got tonsillitis and has been prescribed penicillin, and she just hates it. I’ve been instructed to wake her for her nightly dose (5ml every 6 hours, 4 times a day) and this is the 2nd out of 6 doses already given that she’s thrown it up on me because she’s so distressed that she just cries, gags, coughs, and vomits. She’s not allergic, showing no obvious signs of allergy, she just has a serious aversion to medicine administration. Idek know what I’m aiming to get out of posting this, I just feel so alone (her dad and me aren’t technically together, and he left on an argument tonight) and im so hurt hearing her so distressed because she doesn’t know what’s happening. She doesn’t know why she’s so poorly. She doesn’t know I’m trying to help. She’s never been poorly like this so it’s really hard for me, she’s my first born and it’s just breaking my heart. 😢

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The only idea I've got is possibly using a bottle teat and filling that with the medication so she can take it like a bottle. Giving you a huge hug and telling you that you've got this and you're doing great!!

Sorry to hear that😢it’s really hard when they’re ill especially so young i have a 17 month aswell there’s times she gets colds and her nose is so stuffy she can’t sleep or breathe and throws up it’s really hard it’s stressful and you feel helpless but the only thing you can do is just be there for them, stay strong, know it won’t last forever and your being there for her is all
she wants and needs cuddles and kisses you’re doing the best you can you’ll get through this, i would say try and give her the medicine little by little as you can, i use the calpol syringes, even if it takes five minutes or longer that medicine will make her better! ❤️

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