Try touching her ears, Susan. Could be an ear infection, too. Those are notoriously not obvious to adults in children.

We tried that, and it didn't seem to bother her.

The shots were last Thursday, so 9 days ago, but they mentioned sometimes reactions would show up a week or so later.

I got through to the receptionist and am now waiting for the nurse to call back.

My ped told me O could develop a fever as much as 10 days after the shots.

His cold started showing last Sunday, but I have no idea if it came from any of the kids involved in his birthday party or if he just picked it up randomly somewhere.

We finally got him back to a regular sleeping schedule this week, but he'll still wake up once every few nights. It's always 50-50 whether he'll put himself back to sleep or not. I'm not going to press the issue until after our vacation in May--travelling puts too much stress on him and his schedule.

Ha! I was hoping you'd write, vw! Our projects dovetail.

Yeah, that's what I figured. We can help each other! I can't think of anything better than that. Plus, the projects are different enough in scope that I think we can each use the information very differently.

Poor Annabel, poor Susan. Poor Brenda! Is Lucy okay?

Exactly. I'm going more for the personal, life-transformative qualities, rather than the more technical stuff. I'm going to shop it to Real Simple and Oprah mags, and then if I get no bites, to the English Journal, with an educational spin.

I'm kinda excited.

She's good - needed some shots and stuff, which is why it cost so much. Still limping, but I don't think it's anything serious. The worst news is that we both need to go in for a deep cleaning and tartar scraping on our respective teeth. At least she gets to be put under.

Ok, Erin. Insent again.

Just talked to a nurse. We're supposed to treat the fever and keep an eye on her. She doesn't think it's the shots, because that should be accompanied by a rash, and it's not. If she still has a fever on Monday or Tuesday and it hasn't resolved into a cold or something, they'll want to take a look at her. But she didn't sound too worried. She even said we could go ahead and take her to the baseball game tomorrow as long as she doesn't seem too sick/unhappy in the morning.

Susan, that sounds like the most practical answer. Here's hoping baby aspirin does the trick.

erin/vw, I sent erin a response to her request. I don't think I participated in vw's original survey. Feel free to share the information and if vw needs anymore from me than what's in the e-mail I sent erin, let me know.