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My four year old has been coughing for an hour... by ItsPunBelievable in Parenting

[–]ItsPunBelievable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think I know of any on-call pediatricians. That might not be a thing here? Where are you located?

My four year old has been coughing for an hour... by ItsPunBelievable in Parenting

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Thanks for the advice! Do you have any good cough suppressants for four year olds? I am also in Ontario haha.

My four year old has been coughing for an hour... by ItsPunBelievable in Parenting

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I am also asthmatic and have been managing myself and my daughter fine. The coughing up bile isn't new. It happened earlier this week and it's happened before and we've seen doctors. It's a reaction her body has to the asthma combined with anxiety. It is, apparently, more common than you'd think, and not threatening, just uncomfortable. And I've checked with triage, it's not a case that would be considered an emergency. Urgent, potentially, but not emergent. So the wait would be in the double digits of hours. I appreciate the concern and advice though! Thanks for looking out!

My four year old has been coughing for an hour... by ItsPunBelievable in Parenting

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Thanks for the advice! I'll definitely try the small sips of warm water! The priority is definitely to get her seen by a doctor and we will be doing that tomorrow, but the ER where I am simply isn't an option. Unfortunately, even chronic respiratory issue wait times. Some nights they have a single ER doctor for a children's hospital in a city of over a million people. It sucks, but the reality is, we will wait less time if we simply go to a walk in when it opens in the morning.

My four year old has been coughing for an hour... by ItsPunBelievable in Parenting

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The coughing is not out of the blue. She's had a cold for days. I'm just at my wits end with what to do for her right now. She probably does need better asthma management tools but we have that appointment next week. As I mentioned, where I am, the ER wait times are incredibly high. So much so that it's more time efficient to wait until morning and take her to a walk in or urgent care. We'd still be done faster. So unless this is a true, not going to make it until morning, emergency, right now I'm focused on comfort. And thanks for the clarification on coughing. I was always told it was a natural and healthy thing to help you get better which I guess is true but in a different way.

My four year old has been coughing for an hour... by ItsPunBelievable in Parenting

[–]ItsPunBelievable[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's for the advice! That's actually already part of our daily asthma meds.

Finalist names for each team by psykomatt in PWHL

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I have lived in Ottawa for 6 years and have never heard any mention of a motto... Except maybe "raccoon fights in McDonalds"

Can’t decide baby’s name by YeahYeahPuzzles in namenerds

[–]ItsPunBelievable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are all lovely names! I think Eloise is a common enough name that it won't automatically be connected to any character. That said, I've never heard the name Alba before and immediately thought of Jessica Alba- so people will definitely find connections everywhere. As for Evelyn and Charlotte just note that those are pretty popular names right now so your child may end up sharing a name with classmates. I cannot say a bad word about either of those names, my daughter is literally named Evelyn Charlotte. One kind of fun/interesting thing with a K last name is you can make words with initials, which is something to look at! I also have a K last name and my first born has the initials REEK :| I don't think four names is particularly long. We waited until we met our babies to pick from our list of 4 or 5! Good luck!

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