Enter congestion and stomach funk for my 20 month old.
The person that wrote that lovely piece of blog advice, probably doesn't have kids.
It is really hard to focus, write, edit, and post on your blog when your 20 month old is sitting on your towel covered lap for 5 days straight because you don't know which end is going to explode. Baby girl went through every pair of pajamas she owns in 2 days. Good thing I am a towel hoarder because I almost ran out of those too.
This persistent cough has inhabited our home, since preschool began last fall. At one point, while visiting my son's preschool class, I commented to the other parents, "Awwww, they all have the same cough." Seriously. The exact same dry, drainage, cough.
We have been fighting this cough FOR MONTHS, on and off, with essential oils, allergy medicine, humidifiers, and wine (for me, of course), but the hacking just won't let up. It keeps coming back.
Last week, it got the better of us and infected the ENTIRE FAMILY. That's 6 people, in one house. Coughing, hacking, snotty, blech. The older two would like you to believe that they are suffering the worst, but their amount of weekend play with neighbors would prove otherwise. Hubby pretty much stayed curled up on the couch in a Nyquil coma. Baby girl and the boy were hit the hardest. Visits to the doctor with ear infections and upper respiratory infections. Besides amoxicillin, baby girl was also awarded prednisone.
Woo hoo! Medicine! May our life return to normal so we can enjoy the upcoming spring-like weather.
Enter prednisone induced vomiting and amoxicillin induced diarrhea.
After a desperate call into the doctor, who stopped all antibiotics, baby girl awoke with a full night's rest with no explosions happening in either direction.
She just ate more food than she has had in 6 days. ONE WHOLE BANANA.
Spring is in 4 days...Spring is in 4 days...
Spring on Mamas...
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