Emma has a runny nose. It's the first time she's ever been sick and she is just so pathetic! I hate watching it! Several things have coincided with the event that it's hard to pinpoint the culprit but I think I have to point to me. Here are the different options:
1. I stopped breastfeeding a week ago and have now opened her up to a world of illness with no immune support anymore from mom
2. Emma visited her boyfriend Clint this week who is also sick
3. Emma's first class at Little Gym was yesterday. I was already not feeling good about her crawling around on the mat that little kids had just run around on.
4. Her teething symptoms are progressing and maybe we'll see a tooth soon.
5. And this is probably it, since her snot is clear. I gave her corn. I KNOW, I KNOW. You're not supposed to give until they're one year old but I DIDN'T KNOW until now. I'm such a bad mom :-( She has the signs of a mild corn allergy of congestion and runny nose, no fever.
Ugh. If I were the type to say FML, I would say it now. :-)
Hopefully, her symptoms will pass soon. And if it's an illness, then I know it had to happen sooner or later.
The "The Hell You Say Mentality":
I was visiting the newest Hedgpeth this week and while there, Michael had asked me what we did to get Emma in her own room. The transition, etc. I couldn't think of anything at the time. Emma has gone from her pack n' play in our room to her crib relatively painlessly. Having a little time to think back, I have to note that Adam and I did not co-sleep, first of all. She slept next to us and everynight (since she was four months old) I have put her to sleep with the same routine. The exact. same. routine. At the end of getting her to sleep, I would lay her in her pack 'n play and go back out to watch TV, etc. So it's not like I was always laying down with her or like she was used to me being right there. ALSO, Adam watches Emma every weekend and while I was a little crazy repeating instructions to him over and over and over, he kinda just did his own thing. At the time, it was super annoying as a I had to restart Emma's schedule every Monday. However, when we were starting to transition Emma to her room, Adam would just take her in there, lay her down in her crib wide awake and she would cry for about ten minutes and fall asleep. With Adam not listening to me, it actually benefited us all. Emma learned to like her crib and feel comfortable and now you can just lay her in there, walk away and get on with your day/night.
She does go to sleep at 7 almost every night on the dot which is sometimes intrusive to having a life as a married couple, but we make it work.
I literally laughed out loud when I read "Emma's boyfriend Clint came over" hahaha
ReplyDeleteI'm still proud of you and Adam for how you've handled Emma's transition to her crib! :)
Ahhhh....snot. I know how you feel...*I* personally think it has nothing to do with corn...WTH! Corn? I never heard that before that you couldn't give corn before 12 mos!!! I don't usually give Kellen corn anyways cause I remember in nutrition class that it basically has NO nutritive value.
ReplyDeleteBUT, Kellen is a SNOT factory. He goes to the Montessori school (aka daycare, but it makes me feel MUCH better calling it "SCHOOL"). He is always sick, it seems. I feel like a horrible person subjecting my son to massive quantities of bacteria and viruses, but I've learned that it is INEVITABLE. Moms tell me that our wee ones will get sick either now or later...and better now so that when they actually start SCHOOL, they won't be missing it all the time. Kellen will have the immune system of Superman. THIS WEEK: he has conjunctivitis. Everyone at work said...Oh, time for the Vigamox drops!! I'm like, WTH is THAT?? Vegemite? Isn't that some nasty Australian sandwich meat or something?
Thankfully, Kellen has been very good at letting me put the eyedrops in. Easier than wiping his nose!!!
MISS YOU!!