What is the most difficult challenge or health issue that your child has faced

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What is the most difficult challenge or health issue that your child has faced

  • Donna says:
    kidney operation, but hes all good now :)
  • Karen says:
    the main health issue would be hirschsprungs disease...we've spent many, many weeks in hospital for that & had 2 major ops...plus my boys have had other small ops on their ears & eyes
  • Tamara says:
    None yet
  • Karen says:
    Due to being early his lungs were not developed properly but because of his size the doctor thought i made a mistake on the dates so they didn't give him that needle that he should have had for his lungs but 2nd day he started to crash so he spent some time in a crib with tubes and lots of other things and hes just finally grown out of going to hospital every winter (croup)
  • Shelley says:
    No! Think that's a strange question as there wer'nt any complications
  • Belinda says:
    None yet! Hope she doesnt have to face any!
  • Vanessa says:
    Havent really faced anything too difficult yet :)
  • Kerri-Anne says:
    nothing really
  • Chris says:
    Nothing yet
  • Amanda says:
    Adam has asthma and is highly allergic to cats like me, and teddy gets every cold going around like me
  • Tracey says:
    Emily was born with suspected heart problems, but they soon resolved themselves
  • Jean says:
    got whooping cough
  • Abby says:
    Has had tonsilitis way too many times
  • Carole says:
    nothing that was difficult
  • Iwa says:
    When Ben picked up some kind of virus from daycare at around 6 months of age, and we ended up in hospital that night with him on the drip. Was heartbreaking to see him so unwell.
  • Rebecca says:
    Poor little man had to have surgery at 4 weeks to remove an absyss on his bottom.
  • Lynne says:
    No major ones just the constant sicknes when they 1st start care or preschool
  • Marnie says:
    severe migraines
  • Jodie says:
    probably being adhd n having learning disibilties right through school has had a few health issues as well,
  • Dianne says:
    her three sibblings ha ha ha
  • Olwen says:
    ear infections
  • Joanne says:
    3rd child is an Epileptic
  • bec says:
    none
  • Shannon says:
    3rd is chucky and catches everything
  • Jodie says:
    Liam hasnt really, Jarrad has some developmental problems, like mild aspergers type symptoms .. late talking, some speech difficulties, socially shy, but nothing big just mild.
  • Suzanne says:
    Teething
  • Suzannah says:
    Asthma attacks that end up at the hospital... so nothing really in the big scheme of things
  • Nikki says:
    We have been so lucky, fingers crossed!! Sleep has been her bad point but fingers crossed we are over that now!!!
  • Terri says:
    hearing problems, had grommets when she was 4
  • Tammy says:
    having pneumonia so far she was put back in hospital and had to have all these tubes in her and it was scary being back in hospital cause she had only been out for like 3months prior.
  • Jodie says:
    Nothing thats been severe but 2nd & 3rd babies get bad asthma but being able to keep out of hospital
  • Kim says:
    Aleesha has had asthma which she has now grown out of. Josh was when he was born and he had fluid on his lungs and had real trouble breathing. Was very scary.
  • Anonymous says:
    Jack has an immune deficience which can't be cured but has really good treatment which we are very grateful for, even though at times i don't sound grateful!!
  • Suzanne says:
    sleeping through the night
  • Lara says:
    Due to been alot taller and larger boned than kids in his age group he sometimes feels a bit left out as they think he is a bully or will be too rough. But he is what you would call a gentle giant. He hates seeing people hurt or unhappy.
  • Fiona says:
    First child- nothing. Second child - HEAPS! 3rd child nothing!!!!
  • Leah says:
    tonsil operation.
  • Cindy says:
    For Sassy, would have to be all the problems between her father, her fathers parents and I, being dragged through the Family Court. For Maton... Seperation anxiety
  • Rachel says:
    Renal & gastric problems. Renal still a problem, toilet training will be hell.
  • Kate says:
    none...touch wood!
  • Elise says:
    cold at 4 days old
  • Nina says:
    Nothing much with the boys, just Lauren. Constant ear infections, poor girl. I've only ever had 1 ear infection, my god, that was one of the most painful things I have ever had. I can't believe she had them continually every year for about 5 months straight, thank god she has outgrown them.
  • Charmaine says:
    she had a speech problem when she woz about 2 start school but took her 2 a speech patholigist which helped her speak correctly and she has echezma
  • Elizabeth says:
    Lucky on that one - nothing major
  • Jenni says:
    Eczema as a baby and up until the age of 4, peanut allergy.
  • leonie says:
    doing year 12
  • Helen says:
    fortunatly they have been not too sickly other than colds etc
  • Brooke says:
    Second child asthma
  • Danni says:
    epilepsy
  • Sharon says:
    dislocated hips and in a frog plaster for 12months
  • Ellen says:
    Asthma
  • Anita says:
    aimee has a heart murmer and one leg is shorter than the other minutely
  • Matthew says:
    Chloe Chronic Bronchitos, Asthma still ongoing Stops breathing when sleeping and coughs to get going again. Have to hit her on the back when she was little to get her going.
  • Kellie says:
    Both had Asthma around 6-12months, Brodhi was hospitalized for 2 nights,but neither had any problems again!
  • renee says:
    nothing serious yet.......
  • Debbie says:
    ear nose and throat baby a lot of time in hospitals, and did not sleep through a night untill he was 4 1/2 yrs old
  • Fiona says:
    no serious health issues!
  • Michelle says:
    getting them to sleep
  • Tammy says:
    alapecha/ weight gain
  • Joanne says:
    broken elbow
  • Jennifer says:
    Nil
  • Deb says:
    biggest challenge was survivin at fisrt
  • Tracey says:
    he is very tall and a bit uncoordinated
  • Kerrie says:
    Has been battling what I think could turn out to be arthritis if it isn't already
  • Catherine says:
    keeping still lol.
  • Marie says:
    being premature and staying in hospital for 10 days... felt like forever
  • Angie says:
    nothing
  • Danielle says:
    none really. Both are healthy and happy children now. Reflux was probably the worst thing.
  • Sasha says:
    Thankfully I have been blessed with two happy healthy kids :)
  • Shola says:
    Kirscha would be her teeth and i have none wth the boys
  • Chantel says:
    First child has two hernias and second child wasn't breathing when born.
  • Tina says:
    where to start....
  • Tracee says:
    dealing with our seperation.. it was and still is extreamly hard for him,his dad was his hero who just walked out and into another family straight away...
  • Kim says:
    Teething
  • Raelene says:
    Oldest has had tonsils out
  • Tash says:
    #1 Having grommets #2 having bloody coldsores! #3 with being so little when he was born and having to be tube fed also having bad jaundice
  • Charlene says:
    Well..... Short story, Open heart surgery at 15 days old to correct Transpostion of the Great Arteries and 2 holes.
  • Karly says:
    RSV
  • Kylie says:
    Asthma & allergies
  • Kara says:
    operation at 16 months
  • Vannessa says:
    my mother a long story
  • Kelly says:
    none
  • Marae says:
    just being premature, wasnt sucking for the first 3 weeks. had to be fed thru a tube
  • Margaret says:
    speech development
  • Melita says:
    Thankfully nothing
  • Tanya says:
    being allergic to peanuts , having reflux and sleeping doesnt like it
  • Anonymous says:
    allergy to penicillin
  • Michelle says:
    Dealing with his parents separation.
  • Denise says:
    A split Kidney
  • e says:
    None that stand out.
  • Tara says:
    12 months of 3 weekly ear infections from the age of 6 months...gromets inserted at 18 months perfect ever since....nothing to complain about at all really
  • Jane says:
    none really, just injuries from playing too much sport
  • Francesca says:
    nothing serious thankful
  • Andrea says:
    Touch wood, both have been lucky with no major illnesses or allergies, etc..
  • Kelly says:
    reflux/colic/sleep
  • Lauren says:
    My diabetes meant that she had low blood suagr when she was born - so my poor baby had to have her foot pricked a lot in the first few days - I couldn't watch.
  • melissa says:
    there hasnt been one so im lucky there but hmm my sister has two dissabled children so I see what she goes through on a daily basis and really mine is nothing
  • Nikki says:
    Asthma in the earlier days, a horrible strep infection 2yrs ago, but all good now!
  • Julie says:
    No 1 child - Excema No 2 child - Croup really badly when little No 3 child - Concussion just recently
  • Lisa says:
    Sophie's haemangeoma and reflux
  • Carol says:
    Bronchial pnuemonia when she was 3 months old then asthma
  • Jayde says:
    Blocked ureter (tube from kidney to bladder) had an operation at 5 months to fix it.
  • Gabbie says:
    Small for her age but well rounded now.
  • Barbara says:
    Shellby got RSV virus when she was 13mnths old. It is a nasty virus that attacks the respitory system, she was in hospital for 7 days and had tubes everywhere, we almost lost her, but she made a good recovery and now she is proned to asthma. Other than that as tough & healthy as can be!
  • Rachel says:
    Nothing, she's a healthy and happy child
  • Samone says:
    asthma
  • Tamara says:
    The only problem was blocked tear ducts which went away.
  • Amanda says:
    nothing really yet.
  • Karen says:
    controlling his asthma
  • Carissa says:
    Trying to latch onto my boob..........
  • Brook says:
    Hearing loss.... temporary apparently (waiting to see still). Thank goodness there are too many terrible issues out there for liitle ones,
  • kellie says:
    nothing thank goodness