I\u2019ll say it again, being sick sucks!\u00a0 And being a sick mommy sucks even more!\u00a0 And having a sick baby while being a sick mommy sucks the worst!<\/p>\n
Last night was one of the worst in my mommy life.\u00a0 It started out like any other night until the rain started.\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking any old rain, I\u2019m talking an all-out wind thrashing downpour.\u00a0 Which, of course, woke up the sick baby who, though he nursed every hour through the day, probably didn\u2019t get enough milk because my couch confinement made it hard to drink the massive amount of water he requires.<\/p>\n
But at 1 o\u2019clock in the morning I was in no condition to go in and feed my poor little doddle so I sent hubby in to try put him back to sleep which was a great idea until Sugarplum woke up screaming because she was scared of the rain.\u00a0 So I ended up in Doodle\u2019s room (it\u2019s closer than the girls\u2019 room), feeding him while trying not to pass out.\u00a0 Doodle was up again an hour and a half later and eventually put himself back to sleep and then the hunder and lightening started and while the girls never got upset about it, it prevented me from sleeping in anticipation of their terror.<\/p>\n
Then came 4:30 and Doodle was up again.\u00a0 I sent hubby in again and he calmed down for a few minutes before going into a full on rage.\u00a0 I tried to get up and go to him but just sitting up in bed was too much so at 4:45 I had hubby get Doodle and I fed him in bed until he drifted off to sleep and then I put him in the play yard (which is still next to my bed for him to play in while I get dressed) where he finished out the night (morning?) peacefully.<\/p>\n
This is the first time I can remember not been ABLE to attend to my children when they needed me.\u00a0 Sure, there\u2019s been times I haven\u2019t wanted to go to them in the night and\/or have deliberately ignored them but this was this first time I desperately wanted to go (knowing Doodle was feeling bad as well) and just couldn\u2019t. If hubby hadn\u2019t been there, I\u2019m sure I would have managed but I also very well could have ended up as a blob on the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019ll say it again, being sick sucks!\u00a0 And being a sick mommy sucks even more!\u00a0 And having a sick baby while being a sick mommy sucks the worst! Last night was one of the worst in my mommy life.\u00a0 It started out like any other night until the rain started.\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking any old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-breastfeeding","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}