Poor DH, covered in poop - also, can you recommend your thermometer?

kme930

So I don't get a lot of holidays at work. DH does. I always used to be jealous. Not today.

Will got sent home from daycare on Friday with a fever - RSV was going around and we suspected that is what he has/had. It's tough to tell if he is better. We think the fever has gone down, but he's still really sad/whiny and cries a lot. That may also be teething. I have no idea how to tell the difference! But that's not the point of this story...

So DH has today off and since Will isn't 100%, he is staying home with daddy. DH just called me because he attempted to take Will's temperature (he's afraid of the rectal thermometer, so this was a big moment for him) and of course he stirred up some activity down there! Poop-splosion!! I think DH is scarred for life.

What's worse is that once he cleaned everything up, and even after Will pooped on him a second time (yikes), it turns out that our thermometer died. It's a POS - almost literally.

So does anyone have an infant thermometer that they like/can recommend?

Thanks!!

mrsolsenk12

We have a forehead thermometer and LOVE it. We got it at Target I think around $30 or so. It only takes a few seconds to use. You press it on their forehead and hold down the button. Then you move it across one side of the forhead to the hair line and release the button and you have a temperature reading. DH and I use it on ourselves and it seems very accurate. I don't know the name but there are a couple of forehead thermometers out there. I was also not a fan of the rectal either.

marcuej

We have a temporal artery thermometer and I really like it.  You can get it at Target, Costco, Amazon, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Exergen-Temporal-Scanner-Infrared-Thermometer/dp/B0015TIZGQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1295279155&sr=8-2

 

 

 

njdcgirl

marcuej:

We have a temporal artery thermometer and I really like it.  You can get it at Target, Costco, Amazon, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Exergen-Temporal-Scanner-Infrared-Thermometer/dp/B0015TIZGQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1295279155&sr=8-2

I just bought this exact one!  Babies r us had them for 50% off.  The in-home nurse that came a bunch of times when Andrew got home used this one too, so I figure they must be pretty good.  (We also tried it on ourselves and it seems accurate)

Hope Will feels better soon.  And, yikes! for your DH.  Not looking forward to that day!

 

 

mrsolsenk12

marcuej:

We have a temporal artery thermometer and I really like it.  You can get it at Target, Costco, Amazon, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Exergen-Temporal-Scanner-Infrared-Thermometer/dp/B0015TIZGQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1295279155&sr=8-2

 

 

 

This is the one I was describing. I have this exact one.

Mouseygail

aww..poor will!  (and poor DH!!  lol!)  We have the temporal artery one too, but I feel like a dummy and I feel like it doesn't work right...I'm going to make a post about it now, asking for help.  Anyways..it seems like a great idea, but i'm not convinced of how accruate it is. 

kme930

Thanks everyone! Shortly after I posted this, Will's favorite daycare teacher called to check in on him and when I mentioned the thermometer failure, she recommended the exact same one! Too funny.

Of course, I sent DH to BRU to buy it and they were out of stock...