Yeah, this was our first false positive. The lesson learned is that we need to give the medicine about 10 more minutes, unless there are visible signs of trouble.

Our new problem is that she enjoyed being at the hospital, so now intentional false positives need to be avoided.

Undisciplined

alter_native

Parent Corner: Emergency Room Tummy Ache

One of the most important (and hardest to hone) skills of parenthood is knowing how much to stall on the way to the ER. It's brutal. There's nothing quite like the feeling inside your guts when you are debating whether you need to take your child or not. 

Children are incredibly unreliable witnesses to their own distress. I don't envy you yesterday's evening. But by the grace of God, there go I.