Before children I had never paid a visit to the local accident and emergency department as an adult. When my first three came along I had a few visits there, mainly for high temperatures which were not responding to the usual treatments at home, two of those visits resulted in Xanthe being hospitalised for care so clearly my instinct that this was a genuine medical emergency was right.
Daisy's discharge from the neonatal unit also came with a gold plated, annual pass to the local A&E department however.
For the first few years after premature birth children are much more susceptible to infections which are far more serious than the usual childhood bugs, we were in and out constantly.
