Sick Baby

Poor Emma is not feeling well. It started 2 days ago when she got a runny nose and threw up at 1am. Now if you have kids you know what that middle of the night throw up is like. You're asleep, your hear the noise (you know the noise), and you jump out of bed like the house is on fire. At first I didn't realize Em had thrown up. I thought she was just coughing, but as soon as I picked her up I knew, mostly because at that point I realized I was covered in vomit. And the smell, oh the smell.

So, I'm trying not to turn her light up any brighter because I don't want her to wake up more, change her clothes, not gag, and then I look in her crib and realize that either I'm changing her sheet or she's sleeping with us. I foolishly chose sleeping with us which turned into Em wanting to talk ALL NIGHT LONG. What is so important in the middle of the night that she felt the need to "talk" all night is beyond me. I mean, come on she doesn't even say real words.

And there was no cuddling with dada. When kids are sick they want their moms (much like we all did). At one point Em wanted to lie directly on top of me almost as if I was horizontally carrying her. Super comfortable. I especially liked the part where she kept flinging herself backwards on to me so that her head would just graze my chin.

You'd think all that awake time would help her sleep in a little, but nope. She was awake and ready to go at 6:30am as usual. Sigh. Thank goodness Paul was willing to get up with her to give me a couple more hours of sleep.

And of course during the day on Saturday she acted fine. Other than the exceptionally runny nose. No fussing, no whining.

During dinner we knew she was not feeling well because she had no desire in eating anything. Our girl loves her food so we know she's sick when she doesn't want to eat. We gave her a bath, propped up her crib on one end, got out the humidifer, and put her to bed. Not even 2 minutes later she was screaming her head off so I went upstairs and she had THROWN UP EVERYWHERE. It was dripping all down the side of her crib, her bumper was soaked in it, and her sheets definitely needed to be changed.

I called Paul to come up and help and he changed Emma while he tried not to throw up himself. I mopped vomit off the floor. And took down the vomit covered bumper. And changed the vomit covered sheets. To be fair Paul did bundle everything up and shove it into the washing machine.

It felt like everytime I was about to fall asleep Em woke up crying. Eventually she did settle down and we got some sleep. I brought her in with us about 6am and she fell back asleep until 8am (praise Jesus!).

Of course she doesn't want to sleep at all. She had a morning nap, but no afternoon nap and has had a rough time falling asleep tonight. I guess we will be calling the doctor tomorrow. But all during the day today she's been sweet ats pie. Such a funny little girl.

Hopefully since we'll be homebound at least the beginning of this week I'll get some things on my to do list scratched off. I was all set to get back on my work out schedule, but I can't bring Emma to the gym if she has a runny nose. Hope she gets better soon! I guess that's parenthood though...no sleep, covered in snot and vomit, and hopelessly in love.

Hope everyone is feeling healthy!