After waiting the FULL two weeks since our last outbreak, we finally got spots on the rest of the kids the beginning of last week! When all is said and done, we will have spent pretty much the entire month of October in chicken pox quarantine. The change of pace was welcome and really not as bad as it sounds, but we all will be glad to get back to normal around here.
These pics were taken early on, and everyone ended up looking a little worse than this. Lewis had the most dots when all was said and done, but I think Ian may have had the most suffering. Thankfully, no one was bedridden or absolutely miserable. We actually needed very little as far as symptom alleviation, but coconut oil topically and a few epsom salt soaks with ascorbic acid and baking soda were handy at certain points.
And after hearing a friend's story about all her older siblings getting pox when she was a six month old nursling and then her not ever getting pox herself in childhood or as a mother of children with chicken pox, I'm wondering if Audrey may end up with a similar easy immunity from her time in utero. We should know sometime with in the next thirty years or so.
These pics were taken early on, and everyone ended up looking a little worse than this. Lewis had the most dots when all was said and done, but I think Ian may have had the most suffering. Thankfully, no one was bedridden or absolutely miserable. We actually needed very little as far as symptom alleviation, but coconut oil topically and a few epsom salt soaks with ascorbic acid and baking soda were handy at certain points.
And after hearing a friend's story about all her older siblings getting pox when she was a six month old nursling and then her not ever getting pox herself in childhood or as a mother of children with chicken pox, I'm wondering if Audrey may end up with a similar easy immunity from her time in utero. We should know sometime with in the next thirty years or so.
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