Hi all

Well its Olivia's birthday today and unfortunately we have not been able to celebrate in quite the fashion we had hoped because of an absolutely foolish idiotic mistake made by me.

On Tuesday Olivia and I went with a friend to a local park which has open ground as well having decided we would go for a picnic. I had an appointment at the hospital for her eyes as our family have history of poor eyesight etc. Anyway we were rushing around to get there on time and I wasn't very organised basically I forgot her sun hat and skin cream.. I only realised after we had left home and it was too late to go back and get it I hoped that the friend i was meeting would have her suncream with her.

Unfortunately this happened to be the 1 day when she had also forgotten her suncream, we decided that we would continue with the picnic but keep the girls in the shade and only allow short bursts in the park which doesn't have any shade BIG MISTAKE... I was checking Olivia regularly and couldn't see any pinkness so thought that she was alright.

Anyway we came to go home and almost immediately she went bright red on her cheeks and forehead so as soon as we got home I put her in a cool bath and then applied lots of moisturiser. This didn't work she still stayed extremely red but didn't seem bothered at all by it. So she went to bed as normal only for me to go in and check her at 9pm to find she had a big blister come up on her left cheek, I was horrified, then things went from bad to worse as Olivia woke up and rubbed her cheek and burst the blister, we decided then that we needed to take her to hospital, which we did and were advised that all they could do was apply vaseline to her cheek and then let it heal by itself. Anyway by the following morning her cheek had started to swell and her eye was beginning to close so I took her to the doctors where they put her on antibiotics to avoid infection and told me that the wound was clean and should peel in approx 5 days.

This morning however we went to get her up and her face was alot worse so we went back to the doctors to be told that she now had an infection and there was a possibility that she would need to be hospitalised and given antibiotics via IV drip, they decided that they would try her on 10ml of very strong antibiotics first and see her tomorrow morning at the doctors however if there was any spread in the redness to take her back straight away. Unfortunately the redness did start to spread further and so we returned to the doctors at lunchtime where she said that although it had spread Olivia was still in good spirits and so she would make a house call on her way home which she did and hopefully things are starting to improve and we have another appointment in the morning to check things are still going to the right way.

So really my point is and obvious one but still I am normally so careful and would smother Olivia in suncream but i doesn't matter even if the weather is slightly overcast your own little one may burn the same as Olivia has done and I felt it was important to just make everyone doubly aware that whether you are in the sun for 30mins or longer there is a distinct possibility you could end up with the same thing happening and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Thanks for reading


xxx

Sounds awful, I hope that Olivia is feeling better now. I'll definetley be taking extra care, it is easy to think short bursts will be ok so thanks for the warning.

Oh, poor Olivia :cry:

Apparently most babies admitted to hospitals over the summer is because of sunburn. And its most common for LOs to have sunburnt feet cos you don't even think about it.
Hope she gets better soon xxxxx

awww poor olivia! hope she feels better soon.. i take brooke out sometimes and think yeah she will be fine and touchwood she has! i wont be taking the risk in the future thanks
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Thanks for the warning and sorry to hear Olivia's been so badly affected.
Happy Birthday to Olivia and get well soon x

Oh you poor things! Hope Olivia feels better soon and that you don't beat yourself up over this too much.

I just want to 'ditto' what upsy daisy said..I've been exactly the same so will be paying extra attention from now on.

Hope Olivia feels better soon xx

poor thing, i hope she gets to feeling better... i try to take sun cream in my bag all the time, and make sure i apply it everywhere.. i always put socks on even if its warm, and cos of an extremly bad sunburn my dad had i am really aware of it. i'm australian so i take the sun serious even here in england, i have sensitive skin so i treat the girls skin the same. it is so easy to forget the importantance of covering up. so i think its important that we all listen and learn from this easily made mistake... ... got put a spare hat in your change bag now and u know u are always prepared...
gem i hope that u dont mind me over stating the important, and i am not stating any thing about you, just want to help u raise awareness......... i have a horrible skin blemish on my face, that was due to a sun burn, my heart is in the right place..........

oh hun...poor olivia and poor you.
at least she's been in good spirits with it.
rhianna's got red hair so has very sensitive skin, but i'm half as careful as i should be really...but i will be from now on. needed a push like this to make me realise it...how awfuls that.
hope she gets better real soon and that she enjoyed her birthday regardless.
xxx

Poor Olivia. Hope she gets better soon. x Thanks for the warning.

Poor Olivia and poor you. I hope she recovers quickly and that you can then put it behind you. Mistakes are easily made and we are our own worst critics. Well done for letting all of us know so we can learn from it too. xx

Thank you so much. I dont think it ever hurts to remind people of things like this. Its something that we may all be tempted to do at one time or another. I really hope little olivia is better soon. xxx

hope olivia is ok x
i put a post on about how our baby suncream is so full of cr*p and how a skin specialist has developed sun cream called RAD .it was shocking to me to know the stuff i was clarting Abby and Conor in to protect them from the sun was full of chemicals that can cause cancer??? we have all at some point taken chances with the sun but if you could see the pics i got taken at my skin analisis where damage that was done when i was a child is starting to be a problem now im 41 we would all be careful and learn from each others mistakes
fea x