Physicians Are People Too

[Clodfobble]

So miniFob is teething, and has a cold with really bad nasal congestion, and had ridiculously bad gas last night... their powers combined, he woke up crying every twenty minutes all night long.

No, I'm not exaggerating. Every twenty minutes. (Unless, of course, you count the time period from 4:00 AM to 5:30 AM, during which he was just awake.)

I already had a doctor's appointment scheduled for him this morning because the aforementioned cold-with-low-grade-fever has dragged on for 2 weeks now, so as part of the symptom rundown I got to mention to his pediatrician the Sleeping Pattern From Hell.

Her response? "Oh honey, when he gets like that, just give him a ton of Benadryl, knock the little bugger out."



Not that it's necessarily bad advice, I do have a good sense of where the middle ground is between "sleep-deprivation psychosis" and "let the drugs do the parenting." I'm just used to hearing that kind of advice from friends and real-world parents, not people who have to pay for malpractice insurance.