My daughter has been on an antibiotic for almost a week now. As prescribed, I'm supposed to give her a dose every 8 hours. Considering she sleeps for 11 hours and I like to sleep for as many hours straight as possible, getting that done exactly as prescribed has been a bit difficult. What I've been doing is sneaking into her room right as I'm about to go to bed and give her a dose then.
To date, she has not remembered one single night dose. That's because I can't actually get her to wake up. I talk to her, I shake her, I flip her over and she STILL doesn't wake up (I will be discussing that with her pediatrician in a week). Good news... I have been getting her to take the meds. though. As soon as I stick the syringe in her mouth she starts sucking on it like she was an infant nursing as she fell asleep.
I've heard about smoke detectors where a parent records their voice telling the child to get up. I guess the theory is that the child will wake more easily to a parent's voice than to a blaring beep. Considering how well I can wake my daughter up, I'm thinking one of those would not work for us. I just pray I never have opportunity to find out if the standard smoke detector will wake her or not.
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