Category Archives: Children

I hadn’t got around to an update on Eloïse’s chicken pox until now, and I wanted to finish the saga. She had a couple of really difficult days with the itching and fever and then it broke. Who knows how … Continue reading →

Eloïse has quite a bad case of chicken pox. Whereas a lot of children get away with a handful of pocks on their face and chest, Eloïse is covered in the bloody things. They’re all over her face, chest, arms, … Continue reading →

We took Lucas to the consultatiebureau last Friday. It turns out that he now weighs 5830 g, is 60 cm long and has a cranial circumference of 40.4 cm. That’s quite a leap from his birth weight of 3500 g, so he’s now above … Continue reading →

Add the usual incubation period of chicken pox to the date Lucas and I first started showing symptoms of the disease and, lo and behold, you arrive at Friday last. That’s the day that Elo&ium;se started sprouting pocks. Thankfully, she … Continue reading →

Lucas has chicken pox. He doesn’t seem to be bothered by it, except maybe for needing to sleep more than normal. He’s so young, though, that he’s unlikely to develop immunity from this infection and will probably need to get … Continue reading →