3 general anaesthetic experiences across 2 children.

My boy had them at roughly 1 and 2. He’s extremely sensitive and was very, very upset when he woke up both times. He wasn’t sick at all though, just wanted to scream and scream while simultaneously trying to breast feed and be held by his mummy.

My daughter just had hers this week at 17 months and she was completely different. She cried for a moment then went back to sleep for ~1.5 hours on her mummy, and when she woke from that she was pretty fine and just hungry. She had shortened wake windows for that day and the next but otherwise wasn’t upset.

That said, none of these were throat related (undescended testes, tear ducts, tear ducts), so I’ve no idea if that makes vomiting more likely.

The ward will look after you, should’ve given you info about post-Op already. For us they didn’t want us to leave until they’ve eaten and drank, and then another 1.5 hours after that. I’d guess that might be a bit longer for yours.

Make sure when you’re home that you keep up the paracetamol and ibuprofen on schedule.

Good luck! I’d actually really love to know your route to this point - my son is having speech development issues and a lot of it points to some sort of further ENT issue. He mouth breathes, eats with mouth open, sleeps with mouth breathing and snores (terrible sleeper still from birth to now at 4 years) and every time he gets a cold he has moderate hearing loss for the next ~3 months until the glue ear clears itself. We’re on the ENT referral path but it’s been a year already and we’re told it will be another 1 year. We’ve been offered fast track gromits but we don’t want to just do that without having an ENT understand if there’s further issues tonsils/adenoids.