8 years ago
Over the weekend, my baby started coming down with a cold. Runny nose, chesty cough etc... Some of you know, she is a COMPLETE Mommy's girl. She's the kid I can never put down, no one else can hold her if I'm within 50 feet or all you get is crying and screaming. It's very tiring and a little overwhelming at times. As she got sicker over the weekend, the Mommy suckiness amped up about 25 notches. Now I can't get her to stop crying even if I am holding her. Thank goodness for motrin!!!! As the baby was sick, I kept the big girl home on Monday as she was coughing a bit too, turns out she seemed to be ok by bedtime last night. Until 2am that is!!!!!!
2 am, I'm woken up by the bright lights of my ensuite and lots of crying. I crack an eye and ask what's wrong. Through the crying I understand that her tummy hurts and she threw up in her hair. It doesn't look bad from bed so I tell her to come and crawl in with me. No Mommy! She says, there's lots of throw up in my hair. So I crawl out of bed and have a look, sure enough I can't even see hair. So into the shower she goes. The screaming and the crying that ensued, my goodness! Mommy, my everything hurts, Mommy it's hot, crying, crying, crying. I finally tell her she has to calm down because I can't understand her and she's screaming. I get her all washed up and in a warm towel while I go and hunt down a clean pair of jammies. I took the opportunity to go and check her room. BIG MISTAKE at that time of night. It was everywhere! EVERYWHERE!! All I could do was make sure the kitten wasn't in there and shut the door tightly! OK, new jammies on, dry kid and cuddled into bed with me. That lasts about 10 minutes. She's off again, both ends poor thing. Another new pair of jammies on the way! This continues every 30-50 minutes all through the night. She did fall asleep and started puking in her sleep all over MY bed this time. Good heavens!! (At least it was only the water she drank after the last episode) By 4:30 she's telling me she wants to go to school in the morning, to this I just snicker and try to sleep again. By 7 am it seems to have stopped, she's up and at 'em wanting to watch tv. I told her she was banned from her room until later.
After a coffee and some breakfast, I put more motrin into the baby and plug my nose on my way into the big kids room. GAG! I cannot believe the amount of wash I need to do. The bedding, the pillows, the stuffed animals, the carpet, and then my room, the bedding, the sheets and on and on we go.. I am 5 loads in to the mess right now and still have another 5 or so to go. Hopefully my machine holds up!
I forgot to mention that throughout this whole night, DH doesn't even crack an eyelid to ask if all is well. No offer in the morning to take the baby so I can get some sleep. No nothing. In my next life, I want the Daddy pass to doing nothingness.
At least the baby slept well........
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2 Responses
UGH, that is no fun. I'm glad she is feeling better this morning! And I hope you don't get it.
Daddy pass for the win!