Giveaway: Little Remedies + diaper bag
Last Friday night, we were at our weekend house with my sister’s family staying over as guests. She has a two-year-old and a newborn and all four of them were sleeping in our guest room together which is right next to Mazzy and Harlow’s room.
At about 3am, Mazzy started crying in her sleep. Loud moaning crying that I’ve heard many times before. It means she either sneezed and got snot all over herself or her ear hurts or her throat is soar. In other words, SHE’S SICK.
In other circumstances, I might have tried to let her sleep through it, but a) Harlow was in the room and I didn’t want her to wake up and b) my sister’s whole family was in the other room and I didn’t want her kids to wake up either.
Can you imagine four small children in two side-by-side bedrooms suddenly awake at 3am?
PARENTHOOD: THE HORROR SHOW.
So. While half asleep myself, I pulled a crying Mazzy out of bed and started to carry her out of the room. Unfortunately, I didn’t get her out of there before I heard another higher pitched cry coming from the middle of the floor. It was pitch dark and hard to see but that could only mean one thing: Harlow had woken up and crawled out of bed. She knew I was taking her sister somewhere and she wanted to come too.
OY.
I knelt down, while still holding Mazzy over one shoulder (who is not that light, mind you) and tried to coax Harlow back into her bed.
Harlow was having none of it. Her squeals of discontent only got louder.
Now. Another night, I probably would have put Harlow back in her bed anyway and insisted she stay there by shutting the door, but on this night, as I mentioned twice already, my sister’s family was in the next room.
I am nothing if not a good host.
So. I picked up crying Harlow with my left arm, still carrying crying Mazzy with my right arm, stumbled out of the room and lugged both of them up the stairs and tried to put them both to bed between Mike and me.
That’s when Harlow insisted on getting comfortable right on top of me and Mazzy got mad that Harlow was encroaching on her mommy/daughter sickness snuggles. Mommy/daughter sickness snuggles being the only known benefit to being sick.
“Calm down, Harlow. If you want to stay here, you have to go to sleep.”
More crying from Harlow as she tried to get comfortable.
More crying from Mazzy as she tried to get closer to me.
Restless turning from Mike as he did his best to pretend none of this was going on.
“What hurts, Mazzy?”
Nothing. Just more wailing.
“Tell me what hurts, Mazzy or else I don’t know how to help you.”
“MY THROAT.”
“I’m going to get you some medicine.”
“Nooooooooo!!!!!” That came from Harlow, not Mazzy. Mazzy knows that medicine is going to make her feel better and no longer fights me on it like she did when she was little. Harlow got mad because getting medicine meant that I was getting out of bed and disrupting her stolen snuggle.
This was not working AT ALL.
I picked up Harlow and took her back downstairs to her bed, which thankfully, she seemed eager to get into since my bed did not prove to be the relaxing night time retreat she was expecting.
Then I went into the kitchen where we keep our stash of children’s medicine, including Little Remedies, a brand most parents are familiar with if they’ve ever looked for safe solutions for coughs, gas, and fever. All Little Remedies products only use the necessary ingredients, with no artificial dyes, parabens and artificial flavors. On this night, I used Little Remedies Fever and Pain Reliever. Mazzy took her dosage easily and passed out soon after.
Then I was finally able to get some sleep, along with the rest of the house, while giving Mazzy her rightfully deserved mommy/daughter sickness snuggles.
The next day, Mazzy seemed fine but Harlow had a cough. You should have seen the looks my sister gave me while trying to make sure my kids didn’t breathe on her newborn.
I gave Harlow Little Remedies 100% Natural Honey Cough Syrup which always seems to help soothe her cough. I also recommend the Sore Throat Pops, which are great because it’s a fun way to relieve a sore throat. And I’ve been using their Sterile Saline Mist on Mazzy recently because her nose gets dry and this helps with her nose bleeds.
Isn’t this the way all Januarys work? Vacation ends. Cold and flu season begins.
Just in time for the kids to go back to school too!
Giveaway: little remedies + Lesportsac
Today, I’m giving away a LeSportsac Ryan Diaper Bag
You must be a Mommy Shorts subscriber to enter. Then leave a comment below telling me about that one horrible night in your house when everybody got sick at once.
Winner will be announced on January 18th!
WINNER UPDATE:
Congrats to Caitlin! Please contact pam@mommyshorts.com to claim your prize.
One word: Norovirus. It. Is. The. Worst.
My daughter is 2.5. We had it last winter and we got it again this winter. There is nothing worse than being sick at both ends, and also having to attend to your sick child. And spouse. So much bleach.
My kids love to get sick when my husband is doing his weekend drill with the army national guard. The worst was when my then 2yo vomited down his slide from his loft bed. So gross.
We use a warm mist humidifier at night during the winter. It has really cut down on the number and severity of colds in our house. Also – when the kids are coughing, Vicks (or a eucalyptus balm) on the bottom of the feet with socks at night makes the cough go away almost immediately.
Oh boy! With a 2 year old and 6 month old it seems the month of December was just passing back and forth! First my daughter, 2, then my son, then back and back again. She caught a cold, then my son caught a stomach virus and vomited all over house. Then my daughter caught it again and on Christmas no less woke the whole house up with a terrible cough, and vomited on her brother who managed to fall back to sleep and me….oy!
Have you ever woken up to blue/purple puke? It’s fun putting up a load of laundry and soothing the kids at 2 am. My son used to puke as soon as he spiked a fever and lucky me, he had blueberries for dinner.
He also puked blue at a child urgent care once around midnight too. Fun times!
This past weekend, my 8 month old had an ear infection and thrush and is teething. I’m pretty sure he didn’t sleep all weekend, so pretty sure I didn’t sleep all weekend. To top it off, my husband was in a car accident and couldn’t help much.
Over the holidays we all got sick, my 2 to, my husband and me (35 weeks pregnant.). Thankfully it was just a cold but I feel like I haven’t slept in weeks. I hope to get some relief before the new baby arrives!
My then 2 year old puked in the middle of the night once. Not having done so since she was an infant and not knowing words like barf, puke, etc., she announced to my husband “I hiccupped”.
My husband works nights so when our 2 littles (3.5 and 2 yrs old)) that share a room get sick in the middle of the night, it’s all on me to handle and I do not do well with puke! Last night my son puked from crying so hard about getting a bath to wash away all the germs. Luckily bathroom tile puke is very easy to clean up and I was able to keep it together. The next time he puked was in my bed and all over his beloved blankie. I survived cleaning up the mess with a few dry heaves. The next time he puked was in his crib as I was rocking his baby sister to sleep, so everyone was wide awake for the next hour or so fighting for my lap and attention as I dry heaved and cleaned. 30 mins after they were both asleep again, he wakes coughing and pukes again; this time it’s super chunky projectile, covering every inch of his crib and surrounding walls and floor. I get him cleaned up and downstairs watching tv while I clean up the mess in the dark, holding a flashlight in my mouth, swallowing my own puke as I can no longer handle the smell and texture of his, while trying not to wake his sister again. Luckily I ran out of room and made it the bathroom before I actually puked and baby girl stayed asleep, but my poor boy was up until 430 am puking his guts out and I was right there beside him puking my guts out too. I was then able to get 4 hrs of sleep by putting a pillow over my head to drown out my kids’ snoring and coughing over the monitor and my husband’s snores when he came to bed at 6am after getting home from work puke free. Why does the puke always happen on my shifts?!
When my son was 1, he had a lot of ear infections and would wake up screaming in the middle of the night. One night, I heard him wailing on the monitor and figured, “oh great, another ear infection.” I went into his room and he was standing up in his crib but I didn’t want to turn on the light so I only saw the outline of him standing up so I picked him up to rock him. I smelled a weird, sweet-smelling smell so I turned on the light – only to see his sleep sack covered in pink vomit (from the Motrin I’d given him earlier) and now that vomit was all over me as well. I tried to cradle him as he threw up again, this time directly on me. Of course, trying to clean yourself and your child up, while they are clinging to you for dear life and crying (and potentially still throwing up) is no fun for anyone. We got through it and it wasn’t the last time but the many sicknesses of life with small children is worth it for the cuddles, hugs and days at home they bring.
Our horrible night lasted multiple days and one 17 hour car ride as we made a cross-country move in the throes of stomach flu. When my kiddo was just over 4 months old, my husband and I made a move for both our jobs. In the two days leading up to the drive, I came down with the stomach flu. It lasted our entire final two days in our ‘home state.’ As I started feeling better, my husband caught it. We scrambled to come up with backup plans for our drive to Texas, debating if he would fly and I would make the 17 hour trek in the car alone with the baby (NIGHTMARE!).
Ultimately, we decided we would both suck it up and drive together. At that time, the kiddo caught the flu. Our 17 hour road trip had more diaper blowouts than I care to even remember. Looking back now, I can only assume it was sleep deprivation that made us decide to make a cross country move not only with a newborn but with three people all battling the stomach flu!
This will jinx me for sure but my daughter turned two in October and we’ve only had minor sniffles so far! I’m terrified of the first stomach bug she catches cause I don’t do well with vomit in general.
Not one night. Many. My daughter has a sensitive gag reflex and from 6 months to about 3.5 any more than 2 or 3 consecutive coughing bouts and she would vomit. I have no idea how many times she’s vomited over night over the years… Dozens. Maybe over 100 times, not exaggerating. It affected our travel plans and our entire life the whole time. The only thing that ever helped was the little remedies lollipops! Thank the Good Lord Above that she grew out of it because it was seriously awful.
Mother’s Day 2015 – the night my kid pooped the bed, threw up on my husband, inciting an emergency bath and laundry load, finished with digging around for new sheets and using a blanket instead. Nothing like a middle of the night surprise like that! He managed it all on his own and although I was supposed to be sleeping in, I was awake with amazement for this man.
A couple years ago, right before his birthday, my little guy starting acting off. He was super clingy and grumpy. I figured it was just teeth coming in, then the spots showed up on his feet and hands. He came down with hand foot and mouth three days before his birthday party. He also shared it with my husband and me, I felt like I had been hit by a bus! Luckily it runs its course quickly. Unfortunately, it’s not like chicken pox where you get it once and your done, he came down with it again this past summer. Ick!
I feel like my kids are perpetually sick. My littlest ALWAYS gets ear infections, and for him it involves a high fever, lots congestion, and vomiting. My daughter always gets bronchitis – we are at the pediatrician multiple times a season, and have even had an ER visit over it. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve been up at night with sick babes.
I think the worst story I have is when my entire house got the stomach flu – we basically moved the coffee table out of the way and laid a plastic tarp down in the middle of the living room. It was the puke tarp. Anytime anyone had to vomit they went over on the tarp because sometimes it was hard to make it to the bathroom. My (then 2 year old) caught onto the method quickly and became a pro at getting to the tarp in time. It made clean up SO much easier! We even camped out with sleeping bags on the tarp at night, since the vomiting went on night and day. Worst week ever. It was really sad to see my little baby that sick.
I heard my 2 year old crying in the middle of the night and went to see what was wrong. Not fully awake, I stumbled into his room without turning on the light. As I was reaching to pull him into my arms, the worst smell I have ever inhaled hit my nose. But it was too late – he was already in my arms and we both were covered in his disgusting putrid vomit. I shouted for my husband and soon we were all gagging. I’ve learned my lesson. I always turn on the lights and look before you touch! LOL
Last summer, my 18 month old son woke up puking in his crib. He proceeded to have the worst stomach virus for the next 10 days. He couldn’t keep anything (even water) down for about 4 days, and ended needing IV fluids and was almost hospitalized…just from a crazy stomach virus. It was the WORST!
We don’t know what this is like just yet, since I am pregnant with my first. But I sure we will be used to it quickly.
Baby twins with rotovirus. Enough said.
Take one baby and change diaper while holding puke bucket under other baby.
Switch two minutes later.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Worst time in my 25 year, seven kids, mommy history.
Closely followed by baby twins with rsv. Twins makes everything more magical haha.
The worst time was last year on the holiday of Purim. My husband was sick with strep so he was stuck in bed all day. The kids wanted to go to their friends houses in their costumes but there was a huge snowstorm that day and I wasnt going to drive myself! Then half way through the day my daughter started shrieking in agony that her ear hurts. She had never yet gotten an ear infection and it really hurt alot. Next morning we went to the dr and confirmed the ear infection. But it was after a whole night of her on off crying and waking up her baby brother who sleeps in the room with her.
The horror story of all sick horror stories: My husband needed heart surgery to replace his aortic valve. My sister took time off work to come up and help me with my then 1 1/2 yr old. Right in the waiting room, in the middle of my husbands open heart surgery, my little girl starts puking. And it doesn’t end. She covers me in vomit (I had to borrow scrubs from the hospital until someone could bring me up clothes), she puked all over my sisters car on the way home, and continued vomiting for days. While I was in the Icu with my husband I had to keep leaving to run home to nurse her (I was still nursing at the time and while she was sick that’s the only way we could get fluids in her) and then racing back to the hospital. Due to complications my husband was in the Icu for 8 days during which I continued this pattern, stopping around day 4 at the er with a dehydrated little one. The er dr took pity on me and gave me extra of the anti-nausea meds which is lucky because, you guessed it, day 6, with a still sick(but slightly better) little one, a husband in Icu and I get the flu. Silver lining, we all survived and we can all laugh about it now 🙂
I can tell when my eldest is sick before he even feels sick. He goes from complete lunatic to lethargic, quiet sweetie. One day after school this happened. That night after I’d put him and his little brother to bed I heard him call out to me. I walked into their bedroom just in time to see him sit up in his bed and vomit. The kicker? He slept on the top bunk. He leaned part way over the railing. So not only was there puke on his bed, but down the side of the bunk bed and onto his sleeping brothers bed, plus on THE SHAG RUG in their bedroom floor. Little brother slept through the whole thing. Even me changing his bedding with him still in the bed, and doing my best at cleaning god awful chunks out of the rug ????????????
The worst time was actually when my husband got food poisoning while I was three months pregnant. I’m still not sure how I made it through that.
A Few years ago, after visiting my family out of town for Christmas and getting ready to celebrate our first New Year’s Eve as parents, my husband, his mom (whom we had just moved in with a month prior), and I all got the flu. The type of flu that keeps everyone either sleeping or in the bathroom for way too long, and our almost 1 year old daughter was 100% fine… No cough, no sore throat, no fatigue, and I wholeheartedly think that is just as bad, if not worse than all of us being sick. Luckily my MIL has a 3 bathroom home so we were all able to basically have our own space, but since my husband and MIL are both worse than a child when they are sick the responsibility to take care of our daughter and the other adults fell to me. So between bathroom trips, making sure everyone else was getting enough water/nutrients, and trying to take care of myself, I was also chasing a very active little girl. I decided after those 2 days of ‘the sickness’ that I needed to make sure I am on top of my health and always have enough supplies on hand for when someone gets sick. It was the last time I’ve been sick, but my husband and daughter have been to that point a couple times since then and I feel way more capable of handling it since that first time.
When my son was 6 months old everyone in my house was struck down with a bad case of norovirus. My husband was also conveniently enough recovering from shoulder surgery and couldn’t do any lifting. I ended up sleeping on the floor or my son’s room with a diaper changing set up and extra clothes, so I could change him and nurse him but still be able to safely ditch him and run to the bathroom if I needed to (which I did, a lot). We had a filthy little nest on the floor. It was pathetic.
I don’t know if that was worse than getting Shigella last year when the husband and I each lost 10 pounds in 7 days and we had to get the sofa professionally cleaned in the aftermath, but it was pretty bad.
That sounds like when I have the neuro virus back in 2006. It was about the same senario for me
My 2 year old started getting sick frequently when she started preschool 4 months ago. She was coughing so much that she would vomit and cry in her crib. We started co-sleeping to make sure her head stayed elevated. Not sure if it’s because she’s now 2 or I had set a bad habit but now she is anti-crib, anti-sleeping by herself without Mommy beside her (bedtime is now early for me as well), anti-sleeping soundly through the night! Little remedies saline mist has been our savior in clearing her stuffy or runny nose. I’ve got #2 on the way (another girl!) and can’t imagine dealing with 2 little sick ones but it seems inevitable!
Why does everyone have to describe puking in graphic detail? We have had our fair share of norovirus, including the one time an adult came over feeling under the weather to see our 2 month old. A 2 month old baby with norovirus is heartbreaking.
Four years ago December we were in the process of moving across town to a larger home. On the night before we officially moved, we held a birthday party for my oldest son and a dozen of his closest friends. My husband was at the new house pulling carpet tacks and staples out of the floor so the floor guy could lay the new floor the next day WHILE we moved in furniture (we weren’t great planners).
After the party, I made a quick trip across town to take my husband and the floor guy dinner and got back around 10 pm. I settled my three sons onto mattresses on the floor (since their beds were already dismantled for the move the next day) and I laid down on the couch. 30 minutes later my youngest (who was 2) wakes up crying and I realized he had thrown up all over the bed he was sharing with his brother. I had to quickly move big brother to the floor so he wouldn’t roll into the vomit. As I was standing up, the toddler started gagging and I had no choice but to hold him over the bed where he had already vomited.
This time he needed a bath so I stripped him down, gathered the bedding, threw it in the washer, and plopped him in the tub, screaming. I got him clean, jammied, grabbed a bucket and got settled back on the couch. But the little booger refused to throw up in the bucket. I did 5 loads of laundry that night and we both finally fell asleep at 6 am, one hour before everyone was going to show up and help us move. And my sweet husband stayed at the new house all night, on his hands and knees, pulling carpet tacks. I would have gladly traded him places.
It actually just happened this past weekend. It was my 30th birthday and I am pregnant so I am super nauseous already… My daughter had the stomach flu and was miserable so I decided to sleep in her bed with her once it seemed that the vomiting portion of the flu was done. We were wrong. I woke up in the middle of the night to her vomitjng in my head…. ON MY HEAD! Poor girl was so miserable. But next morning she woke up chipped and bouncing around like a normal 2.5 year old, I on the other hand spent my 30th birthday battling the stomach flu and morning sickness. Oh the life of a Mama!
So my almost 3 year old has only vomited once in his short lifetime. And of course it was in the middle of the night. I was sleeping soundly with him next to me (space is limited in our apartment with only one bedroom so we have been cosleeping since he was a baby). Suddenly I was woken by a terrible smell, a crying toddler (he was almost 2 at the time), and a very wet feeling on my chest. He had vomited all over the bed. Now not only did I need to comfort a sick crying 2 year old who had never vomited before. I also needed to shower, change the bed, and give him a bath which he really did not want. All at about 2am. Ugh! Worst night ever.
I’m pregnant with a 2.5 yo. I went down first with this lovely little flu virus. High fever, body aches, vomit, diahrrea, the works. Because I’m pregnant I got to take Tylenol for the fever and abig dose of suck it up for the rest. Then my husband went down. And finally the child. My daughter acted totally fine…until she vomited all over my lap that is. It was a truly lovely couple of days in our house.
I had gotten everyone to sleep and was sitting down to relax before heading to bed myself, when I heard the baby cry. I quickly scooped her up and rocked her back to sleep as to not wake the other two kiddos. She would not stay asleep if I was not holding her which only happens when she is sick. Being 9 months old I decided to let her sleep with my husband and I so we could get some sleep as well. About 2:00am I heard my little guy crying from the other room. He had a bad dream and was inconsolable. He decided he needed to sleep with us as well. Then my 8 year old woke up with a horrible cough and a fever. So all 5 of us in bed together, however by 3:00am I snuck out of the bed with the baby and went to the couch where I was able to sleep until 7:00am. Ear infections for the youngest and the oldest where the cause of all the late night drama. Little Remedies is one of favorite brands of products. I discovered them when my daughter was born and use them with the younger two as well.
Hand down the worst time I my house, was a few years ago. I had taken my children to get their flu shots and than the next day traveled to my daughters specialist two hours away. She projectile vomited in the car three times on the way home, just her and me and hardly any places to stop. Than when we got home, my son started to scream and vomited all over the kitchen floor. That night, every time I would lay my daughter down she would throw up and than begin to scream.
I changed and washer her sheets four times that night, had my son on the couch with a bucket and of course, they had to share the virus with me. It was a nightmare!
It wasn’t a night. It was a month. It all started when my husband got the flu for the second time this year. He was in bed for at least a week. Then he got a repiratory infection right after. Then my oldest got RSV. A few days later my 5 month old got RSV and an ear infection. That was a week plus of “sleeping” with her on my chest. Then I got sick with a cold, got better, and got sick again! It was never ending!!! We finally all got well in time for Christmas and then I came down with mastitis on the 26th. That has nothing to do with colds but good lord it SUCKED. Please let us make it through the rest of cold season without getting anything else!
Christmas Eve we were woken by my three year old crying and not responding to us because he had a 104.3 temperature. My husband whisked him off to the ER while I arranged care for my sleeping daughter. We got a pneumonia diagnosis and got home by 2 am. Just as I was falling back asleep my one year old woke at 3 am. Needless to say it was a long Christmas Day.
When my twins were babies my son had a stomach virus and couldn’t keep any fluids down. He did not seem dehydrated, but my pediatrician was getting worried and at one point told me to take him to the ER if he couldn’t keep his bed time bottle down. So my husband fed him the bedtime bottle and held him anxiously awaiting to see if he could keep it down. Nope! Within 15 mins he had spewed milk everywhere. I scooped up the baby and quickly got him cleaned up and packed our bag to drive up to the hospital. My husband just sat there in the chair, covered in spewed milk, wondering when I was going to help him clean up! That moment it hit him – he’s no longer top priority!
We didn’t all get sick at once, it was a domino effect attacking the whole family. Last February my daughter came down with a virus, the stomach/vomiting type. Which of course I came down with a day later. Then my husband got it. Then my mom, then mother in law then my father in law. Not fun, and felt so terrible we infected all out babysitters.
Probably the worst was when my one-and-half-year old started puking the day before we were supposed to visit my brother-in-law and sister-in-law in Las Vegas. Although it could have just been “a 24 hour thing,” it was a good thing we canceled the trip because the disease took both my husband and I down within the next two days. Fortunately, we got sick sequentially so there was always someone to take care of the kid, but there was a lot of puking over those three days. Thank God we weren’t on a plane!
We had just moved into a new house, and I had just had my son two weeks before. Our first night in the new house my then 3 year old came into our room, so I just put her in bed with us. Instead of going back to sleep she sat up cried and then threw up all over our bed and all over me. Not fun when you have a house full of boxes, a newborn, and are healing from giving birth!
Labor Day weekend – I was 36 weeks pregnant and sick with fevers and chills, but not sure what I had. I put my 2-1/2 year old to bed and went to lay down only to be woken by her a short time later. She was crying and then proceeded to throw up on me … three times. Because I was pregnant and this was the first time our daughter threw up (she was choking on it too), we called an ambulance to take us to the hospital. Four hours and two X-rays – her’s and mine – later, we discovered both of us had pneumonia. It was the worst week ever with both of us so very sick.
Worst part now: We are still dealing with insurance over the ambulance and ER visits because they screwed everything up. Ugh!
Oh there have been many middle-of-the night sickness stories, but the worst was when my son was just under two. He caught the stomach flu, and started throwing up around 11pm. He threw up three times between 11 & 2am. The first was in his bed, so I had to clean that up while trying to keep my son calm. The second was shortly after I finished changing his sheets… all over his clean sheets. That’s when I called my husband for backup! He did the bed clean-up, and I took care of my son. Third time was luckily in the bathroom, but still ended up all over me. After cleaning that up, we snuggled a bit on the bathroom floor until it seemed safe to go back to bed. We made it the rest of the night in my bed 🙂
I woke up around 2 am to the cutest little hands on either side of my face and my 3 year old’s nosed smashed up against mine. How cute he snuck in to cudddle! I smiled at him and asked him what he was doing. He stared at me for a bit and sweetly said “I’m gonna throw up” I jumped out of bed to grab the trash can, but it was too late. So then I had to wake my husband up, clean the bed, change the sheets and then take my vomit coated “snuggle bug” to the bath. While I am sitting (read passing out on the floor next to) the bath my son tells me “I telled you I was gonna throw up”. Yep, thanks for the warning kid.
It was around midnight and I woke up with strong contractions.. Trying to stay calm and time them before waking my husband when I hear a scream come from my son and step sons bedroom. My husband woke up to see what was wrong and found my son crying because,while they had bunk beds they insisted on sleeping on the bottom together, my step son had gotten sick all over my son and he was just sitting there with his hands up screaming covered in vomit.. As my husband is trying to calm them down and clean them up I go and tell him we needed to leave for the hospital as we had a 45 min drive to get there and I was in labor.. The whole ride to the hospital consisted of me trying to breathe through contractions, my son crying he still had vomit in his hair and my step son continuously getting sick every 10-15 mins in the back seat of the car.. All while keeping the windows down so the smell didn’t make the rest of us sick… In the end we got to the hospital on time.. Handed this kids off to family who met us there to take them and our beautiful baby girl was born 🙂
Last year, our two 1.5 year olds, our 3 year old and my husband and I all had the stomach virus from hell. My husband couldn’t even go to work and he works through anything. Vomit and diarrhea all around for 4 days. It was the worst ever. Laundry and cleaning for days! ????
My poor son has the same gag reflexes as me, so when we cough uncontrollably we barf. Poor kid threw up all over his “baby” (blankie) in his crib. TOTALLY disgusting, especially at 2am!
My worst experience so far was 2 years ago when my now 4.5 year old was 2 and a half.. and he had just started daycare 4 months prior to this… had only had sniffles, running nose, fever that lasted no more than 24 hours until then and he is our FIRST BORN child and I was new to the USA and the Healthcare system here!
This is what happened, I was pregnant with baby# 2 (6 months preggo) and my husband came down with something similar to the flu and so we (my son & I) were barely making it through the daily chores and that is when my son came down with it too on a Saturday morning… so that became two of them sick with preggo me (who could not afford to fall sick)… his fever was on the second day (Sunday) and didn’t seem to come down at all and I have never seen him sit in my lap so still for so long.. and went up to 104.6 and we were on the phone with the insurance company, we started to take him to ER after giving him a dose of acetominophen. once we got there, since it was not our regular pediatriac facility (closed on Sunday), we were finding our way and that is when my son got down and started running around. He no longer wanted to cling to me and me to keep carrying him. And he was even ready to eat ‘pizza’ at Taco Bell (he had stopped eating anything except for a few sips of Pedialyte/water).. and so he went home and visited his regular pediatrician the next day and he started to get better from then…. Ever since if falls sick too long and doesn’t want to eat, we normally take him to Taco Bell, where he is very happy to have the pizza.
I agreed to watch my friend’s 4 month old because her 4 year old had a stomache virus and neither of us wanted the baby to get it. Fast forward to the middle of the night when I was awoke by the sound of a vomiting child. Not only did my 5, 6 and 8 years olds get the virus but also the baby. I put them all in the living room with buckets and towels. The cleanup was constant as was the running of the washing machine for over 24 hours. So far the saddest and worst sick episode I have experienced as a mama!
The worst night my family had was the night before I was supposed to return to work from maternity leave with my firstborn. I got the flu, my husband got the flu and we had to take care of a brand new baby on top of taking turns in the bathroom. We were sick, sleep deprived and didn’t even have the energy to stand up to change a diaper the next day. Hardest night as a parent!
My son was 2 months old and had a tummy virus. We were living at my sister’s house (4 people in 1 bedroom) because our house had flooded and was no longer inhabitable. In the middle of the night he woke up and needed a new diaper. So since he was sleeping in a Moses basket on the floor I didn’t even get him out. As I was lifting up his little butt to slide the new diaper under him he farted and diarrhea went EVERYWHERE. All over me, all over him, all over the bed and bedding, some of it flew over the bed onto the floor. It was disgusting to say the least. I was able to get it all cleaned up without waking my husband or daughter, or anyone else in the house, which was amazing to say the least.
It wasn’t at night, it was on an airplane. My husband was on deployment and I was traveling by myself with my two girls, then ages 1 and 4 to visit family in another state. I’m talking cross country from Florida to Washington! We boarded the plane and about 15 min in my 4 year old told me her stomach hurt. Then she threw up everywhere. On me, the airplane seat, herself. She had no fever and had been perfectly fine up until then so I thought maybe it was a one time thing. Nope! She threw up every 30 min that whole plane ride. The flight attendant moved people’s seats so they wouldn’t have to be right next to us. Luckily the baby slept, other than that it was purely survival mode.
Then we got off to board our connecting flight and I called my MIL to ask her advice. She suggested Dramamine and I found some for children in the airplane gift shop. Gave her the dose and it helped but also put her to sleep! So there I was struggling down the walkway to plane, still covered in now dry puke, lugging a car seat, a 1 year old and a heavy 4 year old who was sleeping. I have no idea how I did it. She slept on that flight, my MIL picked us up at the airport and when we got to her house, my daughter continued to throw up for the rest of the trip. We went to urgent care, the ER and it turned out she had Strep Throat and an ear infection.
Worst plane ride EVER.
That night when Mommy got woken up by a screaming Daddy b/c he walked into the bathroom late at night and stepped in a puddle of diarrhea that a sleep walking son left as he wandered to the bathroom to pee in said sleep. We found him back in bed sleeping in the same mess. I just stood there not knowing where to start!
Worst night ever. The whole family was hit by a norovirus. I was putting the kiddos to bed. My youngest DD was lying next to me and then screams DAD! I put the book down and picked her up and she let loose. Like a scene from the exorcist, projectile vomiting. All over me and in my hair. At the same time, the wife was praying to porcelain god and couldn’t help. I managed to get the little one in tub and the clothes to washer. I was bathing youngest DD and the wife arrives and says she just lost her cookies. I was able to clean Youngest DD and then oldest DD screams- I gave her a bucket earlier suspecting she might be next. Wouldn’t you know it, my 4 year-old daughter used the bucket and saved me the clean up. Upstairs the boys were not fairing so well. The 12 year old projectile vomited off the top bunk across the room. He then curled into a ball and passed out on the floor next to the toilet. Oldest DS proceeded to clean up his brother’s mess and then lost his cookies (I think from the smell). We got everything cleaned up I took a shower and short nap, then went to work after two hours of sleep, the kids called in sick to school. Then after a two day incubation period I finally succumbed to the disease. I curse the schools every year as they are Petri dishes! It definitely be nice to have a bag of safe remedies.
Last winter was rough since it was freezing in NJ and the kids weren’t able to get much fresh air. My 2 year old and 4 year old passed sicknesses back and forth all winter long. Pretty sure there are still vomit stains on the new carpet we had put down in my 4 year olds bedroom…gross.
After a large evening play date with lots of families, I woke up not feeling great. By noon I was puking my guts out. I called my husband at work and told home to come home so he could care for our 6mo old. That night I was still sick, and all through the night my baby got sick. Then the next morning I felt better and so did the baby, but now my husband stared puking! It was a long couple of days and nights!
One evening around 2 am I heard my 2 year old chatting away, got up to tell her and thinking she was talking to her brother him to go to sleep. I walked in the room and Daniel was sound asleep Jessica was having a conversation with the neighbors little boy, who was at home, next door. Her temperature was 105 degrees she was hallucinating. For about a year she would get really bad bladder/kidney infections that required surgery to correct.
STREP—- let’s say it all together. STREP!!!!! Ugh. Our family of four decided it was the right day to go get our Christmas tree. My daughter went down for a nap a littl warm( cutting teeth at 11m) totally normal. Woke up with a 102 fever. So I sent my husband and son to find the tree. By the time they got home she and I were at the doctor with strep. Naturally she had NOTHING to do with anyone else but me; including bed time. So we slept in the chair and cried and slept and didn’t eat and slept. Naturally her brother woke up with a fever so thank god our doctor gave us his meds without waiting in the office!! Let’s say two under two with strep. I’d rather not visit that again !! But then again we are beyond blessed that is all we have to deal with !!! ( we also love little remedies – the only stuff my kids tolerate and have good reactions too!)
My daughter was 13 months old and was coughing, a lot. My husband was having a terrible time with seasonal allergies and feeling like general garbage. I kept insisting we should bring the baby to the doctor, husband right it was just a cold and I was overreacting. So, to get the baby to sleep, I brought her into our bed (we never do that) and let her sleep on my chest. After about 4 hours of sleep for the baby next to snoring, miserable husband, baby woke up coughing and wheezing. So, after no sleep for me, I called the 24 hour nurse line, tried a steamy bathroom to get baby to breath easier, and then woke up the husband so we could go to the ER. Baby had croup. Then husband got bronchitis as did my parents who came to help out their sick grandbaby. I just tried to keep it together!
Just a few weeks ago, a few days before Christmas, all four of us: me, my husband, my 3 year old daughter and my 4 month old daughter all got yucky colds at once. It was my newborn’s first time being sick so I just felt so sad for her while all at once taking care of everyone else, trying to get myself better, and getting ready for the holidays!
The week before Christmas we were a holy hot mess. My husband got a cold (call the National Guard), I scored a UTI and strep throat, the 3 year old then got the sniffles (and the whines it would seem), and the newborn 2 month old was just a bit congested. So it is 2am, I’m trying to put down my newborn night owl and the whiney toddler comes back to our room for middle of the night cuddles while crying loudly. This wakes up baby, husband is cranky, and I have to pee because UTI. So I throw both kids in bed, give the baby my boob AGAIN, awkwardly cuddle the toddler with my body mostly turned toward baby. My back wasn’t happy about it but we survived the night. Now hubby and I have another cold and toddler has pink eye. Here we go again!
I thankfully don’t have a night where we all got sick, but I do clearly remember the night our son crawled into our bed, threw up, and then said ‘there’s more of that in my bed’…ugh.
My daughters 2nd birthday….she got the stomach flu, which involved lots and lots and lots of throwing up..everywhere and all the time. I was 12 weeks pregnant on top of it all and then caught it from her. I got so sick and dehydrated we had to go to the ER. Then she got it AGAIN and my husband did shortly after her. It ended up being the 2 weeks from hell…all while pregnant and nauseated.
I just wanted to comment on the nose bleeds. My 8 year old gets nose bleeds at night quite often in the winter. We live in Wisconsin, and winter weather is quite dry. The only way to lessen them was having a humidifier in her room. She still got a few, but not as many. This was until I discovered essential oils. I have been diffusing lavender, lemon, and peppermint oils in her room every night AND no nose bleeds so far. This will probably jinx me now, but I just wanted to give you that suggestion.
We had a night a little over a year ago that my husband, myself and my son had diarrhea. On top of it my son was vomiting everywhere. We shipped my baby girl to Grandma’s house, even though we hadn’t been apart I could have 4 sick people. My husband slept in our bed and I slept with my son in his toddler bed (read: crib with no front) I’m 5″11 so it was uncomfortable today the least. But this way I woke up each time he started to throw up and caught it in a bowl so there were no middle of the night sheet changes.
7 month old and 2 adults. Thankfully it was a head cold but it was my babies first cold. I started calling the saline spray the tickle nose spray and get no fuss when she needs it. With baby #2 on the way we need to stock up!
Stomach bug. Throwing up all night. My oldest was 18 months old. It was the first time she ever threw up. The look of shock at how her little body was betraying her is etched in my mind. Somehow the only way she would throw up was all over me. We both went through every pair of pjs we had that night. She finally fell asleep flung across my neck around 4. My alarm went off at 5.
Mine aren’t little any more, and I’m not going to share the story of the time we all 4 got a stomach bug at once. No one wants to hear the details of that week!
But once, when my oldest was a young teen she stumbled into my bedroom, feverish and disoriented and said “The man in the bathroom told me I should come in and sleep in your bed.” Husband was out of town. It took me 20 minutes of tense listening before I remembered that a man could not have made it past the dog and into the hall bathroom without the dog making noise. Still took a long time before I could get up the nerve to go check the bathroom.
It was the evening before Mother’s Day of 2015 when my older two kids got the flu. It started out with my middle child (2) getting the runs. Thankfully he was still wearing diapers, but then my oldest, who is 4, started throwing up. Then in her feverish state, she didn’t understand or know how to react to getting the runs. Poor girl let loose right beside her nest (makeshift bed) on the floor, then again in the hallway on her way to me in the livingroom. I realized what was happening and both my husband and I started pushing her towards the bathroom where she, for the third time, let loose I the bathroom all down the side of the toilet. At this point there was a path of diarrhea from her room, down the hallway to the bathroom. As she was getting stripped and put in the tub to clean her up, my 2 year old (who was asleep) woke up and wanted to know where his sister was. He walked thru the path of diarrhea, then ran thru the livingroom and kitchen, tracking feces the whole way. At this point my husband and I realize what was happening, my husband grabs our son and starts putting him in the tub and I go into turbo cleaning mode. Neither child was allowed out of the tub until the floors had been bleached. After everything had calmed down my husband and I looked at each other and marveled that our youngest (2 months old at the time) had slept thru the whole ordeal. The next day I was hit with the flu as well, but luckily the kids seemed to be on the mend and our infant never caught the bug. I will never forget the volume of poop I cleaned up off the floor that night. Never. I think it changed me.
The night before my scheduled c-section of my third child, I started to feel nauseous which I chocked up to nerves. Instead of spending my last night as a mom of two reading to my sons, I was curled up in bed trying to not throw up. Then, around midnight, my oldest son woke us up saying he didn’t feel well but went back to bed. About 10 minutes later, we hear a noise and when we went to see what it was, he had thrown up all over his bed. It is now 12:30 in the morning, my 3 year old shares a room with his sick brother, and my in-laws are staying in the room right across the hall since they came in town for the birth of the baby. Needless to say, EVERYONE heard my husband yelling “Oh my god!” in horror at the vomit everywhere. After cleaning it all up, and getting up two more times with my son, it was already time for me to wash my hair one last time and run to the hospital to have another baby! Because, who wouldn’t want more with nights like that?
Gah! I wish it had been everyone at once. Then at least we’ve gotten over it fairly quickly. There’s been plague in the house twice since my 7 month old daughter was born. Both times went like this:
1. The 9 year old gets coughy/sniffly in the middle of the night but then appears to be fine the next morning.
2. That afternoon I feel a tickle in my throat. By dinner I know it’s not going away and by the time I lay down I’m officially sick.
3. On day 2 or 3 Daddy gets hit and acts like a bigger baby than the baby (like they always do).
4. With both parents decimated by illness (and lack of sleep on my part because there’s no rest for the wicked—I mean Mom) the cougher/sniffler reverts to toddler behavior because he’s now sick too. There is now officially no fully functioning humans in the house… but I still have to be Mom to the two other plague victims AND the baby.
5. 5–7 days later I finally start feeling better (the other two are still down for the count) but later that evening I hear a pitiful boogery cry from the crib, and I bid the prospect of sleep a sad farewell for at least another week.
Fun stuff.
Hotel vomit. Two years ago, we accompanied my husband for his out-of-town December Guard weekend (they were having their Christmas party). Staying in a hotel room with our whole family, the night before the party we were awoken at 2am by a 2 year old sitting up in bed she was sharing with her sister as she began to vomit everywhere. I don’t mind vomit. But I was wholeheartedly embarrassed to gather up all of the bedsheets, take them to the front desk, and request new linens… knowing that some poor soul would be cleaning the vomit out of everything I was holding.
A week before this past Christmas, my 8mo old son came down with an upper respiratory infection. He was up every night coughing, congested & very uncomfortable. He ended up passing it on to my 2.5yo daughter who was up coughing at night as well. They both were very cranky. To top it off, my husband came down with a cold, so I thought. He is the biggest baby when he’s sick, so I usually don’t have much sympathy for him as I was already taking care of two sick kids. Come to find out my husband had a double ear infection & a sinus infection. Trying to finish up last minute Christmas stuff, pack for 8 days and take care of an entire family was miserable and stressful! I’m very thankful I somehow managed to stay healthy.
A few weeks ago, my daughter comes in my room and tells me she puked in bed. She’s usually really good at keeping it in one spot, so I asked here where the puke was. All she said was EVERYWHERE. My 2 year old sleeps in the bottom bunk, and she was (luckily) still asleep. I cleaned up my 6 yr old (the puker) and made here a bed on the couch (with a puke bucket) and got a flashlight to clean up the puke in her bedroom…..yeah, it was EVERYWHERE. on the floor, on the bottom bunk (a few inches from my 2 yr old) and all over the top bunk. I stripped both beds (in the dark) including the one my 2 yr old was sleeping in (she never woke up!) and cleaned as best I could at 3am in the dark. I threw towels over all of it and went back to bed. I scrubbed that room the next day!
Right before Christmas I had just finished scrubbing my house from top to bottom waiting for all the family that would be coming to stay. That night my five year old was complaining about a stomach ache which I thought was just due to be hungry so I made him dinner and sent him to bed. I went to check on him and was about to scold him for being out of bed when he ran past me into the bathroom and projectile vomited all over the floor, wall, sink, and completely covered the toilet. Everything I had just cleaned covered. I ran to wake up my husband to take him to get cleaned up and well cleaning up all the vomit started to feel sick myself, I just thought the smell was getting to me but low and behold I ended up getting sick myself later that night. The 24 hour flu hit my house hard and fast, it was terrible.
Similar situation. Baby got a high fever at the in-laws and cried ALL NIGHT. I felt bad for them on the other side of the paper thin walls…
Last Monday I awoke at 5:00am to a vomiting 4year old. The stomach flu is no joke!
When my daughter was maybe four months old my husband woke up in the middle of the night with severe food poisoning. Soon after he woke up I got it too. It was absolutely horrible! I was nursing at the time and unfortunately she would wake up every two hours to eat and get changed and soothed back to bed. On top of that all being on my plate my husband is helpless when he is sick and sometimes I think is worse than our child. So I was trying my best between bathroom runs, sick clean ups, feeling absolutely miserable and taking care of our daughter to also take care of him. He ended up feeling so bad that he drove himself to the emergency room and stayed there the majority of the night. I was just thankful that he was able to take himself, I do not think I would have been able to do it.
My son seems to get sick often, and every time I can’t sleep as I feel like I must watch over him. He’s 2. Recently, he was sleeping and having major congestion issues (but he’s got allergies so this happens). It was 10PM already and we were trying to get back into a sleep schedule we has forgotten for the holidays. And when I tried to wake him up to see of he wanted breakfast.. He wouldn’t wake up. At all. scared the heck out of me even though he was breathing.
I’m a worry wart. He just has a cold and his allergies are acting up and his ped said he was probably just overly tired.
I think the worst time was when my daughter had just turned 1, she woke up screaming, at like 2am. I went in and she was covered in throw up, her crib was covered and her carpet. So I got her up and in the bath tub, proceed to throw up in the bathroom. Got her all cleaned up and brought her into bed with me and she threw up all over me and the bed. So for the rest of the night I slept with her downstairs with blankets and towels all over the floor and couches and just let her throw up. It was awful.
So we were living out of town and I had my third baby on a Friday. My husband obviously had to stay home with the other two children, but was planning on going to synagogue on Saturday so they could go to their favorite “synagogue groups” and my husband could go to services and acknowledge the birth of our new baby daughter. Well my daughter woke up throwing up and there was the end of that! Anyway Sat night we got a babysitter and my husband came to pick me and the baby up. At this point we thought that the stomach virus had passed. ha ha ha. I came home, exhausted. My husband was exhausted. The baby was not. Nor was are middle child who woke up throwing up, all while the new baby cried and I cried. I think even my husband cried at one point. Needless to say we were all up the whole night looooong with not enough sheets or towels to spare. Thank Gd my mother arrived the next day and saved the day.
Although I have a daughter now, I don’t have any up sick all night stories with her yet! I do however, have a story from when I use to be a nanny!
There were two kids (1 and 4). The one year old had been constipated throughout the day so his mom decided to feed him prunes. Well… I heard him up in the middle of the night so I went into his room. He was covered literally head to toe in his poop! He had smeared it all over his crib, the wall behind his crib, in his hair, all over the blankets… Literally EVERYWHERE.
I grabbed him (in his pajamas) and stared the tub. Stripped him down and put him in the tub. He was SO stinky and SO messy! I have never been so grossed out in my life. After getting him washed up and put back into my bed I then proceeded to spend the rest of my night cleaning his room and washing all the sheets, scrubbing the wall and his crib!
Absolutely disgusting!
My husband had gone to bed early, and everyone in the house was asleep except me. My 2 year old came to me crying, I assumed he just woke up and was looking for me. Nope. When I picked him up, I immediately recognized that smell. It was all over him, now me, his bed and carpet. I woke my poor husband up to help, we got him cleaned up and lailid him back down with us. I laid there awake for hours, just waiting, but after a few hours, I finally dozed off, sharing a pillow whlith my little guy. He started to fidget, which woke me up, as soon as I woke up, he turned his head, pointed directly at my face and let loose. Needless to say, it was in my hair, my mouth and all over our bed, which in turn caused me to get sick everywhere. I immediately ran with him to the bathroom, got us both undressed and started a bath for us at 1 a.m. while my poor husband cleaned up the aftermath. This was Sunday, and now I am fighting the same stomach bug ???? Mommy never wins.
This past October my 4 year old son had his tonsils out. While we spent 7 days up all night after the surgery all camping out in the living room to be close to the kitchen for midnight ice cream needs, nothing beat the 7th day after his surgery. As I was trying to put both him and his 2 year old sister to bed I hear a scream from his room and find him covered in blood after throwing up. My husband who is a RN supervisor was sleeping getting ready to go on shift but was woken up immediately along with my two year old who then was also screaming after getting a glimpse of her brother. We quickly got everyone cleaned and bundled up to head to the ER while my daughter talked non stop about getting to be up late and have an adventure with Grammy while we took my soon to the hospital. He was taken back for emergency surgery due to having a small bleed that only happens in about 3% of kids who have their tonsils out. We were up all night while he was in surgery having the spot repaired. They then admitted him temporary so my husband and I took shifts sleeping in the fold out bed. Luckily our little guy is very calm and easy going and was a trooper through all of it. Also having a RN for a husband was a comfort. It was certainly a night we would not forget and as my daughter called it an adventure.
On Christmas Eve my four kids, my husband and I got the worst case of stomach flu we have ever had. My kids are 11, 9, 7, and 10 months. I woke up at three in the morning feeling weak and dizzy, to the sound of my daughter puking on the floor down from her loft bed. It made a lovely “splat” noise, ugh! We all had it, but my eldest held out until noon. He was so freaked out that he called my mom on his own and told her she needed to come “because they are all dying.” My mother came because she is awesome (and then got the flu a day later). The scariest part of the story? WE ONLY HAVE ONE BATHROOM.
Worst nighttime sickness occurred a year ago this month. My husband went to bed feeling fine and woke up in the middle of the night with a high fever. He ended up getting the flu virus and had a fever for 7 days straight. #awful
I feel like I shouldn’t answer this but in our 2.5 years of life the worst we’ve had is a slightly runny nose from teething ????????????. I am now going to go knock on all the wood in my house and make sure I don’t start complaining when the day/night comes where I have a story to tell.
On our summer vacation my 2 year old ended up with pinworms (thank you, preschool!). It was a nightmare. 5 adults and 2 kids crammed into a tiny cabin all sharing one bathroom with a digestive parasite just waiting to find someone to infect. Pinworms apparently make it impossible to sleep, so the 2 year old was up all night. The newborn wasn’t too happy about sleeping in a pack n play instead of a crib. It was a disaster.
I only have one little and my worst sick did not happen in the middle of the night (although we do have the night of the three pukes that my husband still talks about – good thing we have a lot of sheets for the crib). My worst sick story was flying across the country coming home from my grandmother’s funeral by my self with my 2yo. We had a layover due to the last minute flight and our second (the longer of the two) flights was delayed. In effort to appease my increasingly crabby child, we got a chocolate milk from the bagel place closest to our gate. They had one size: huge. So I transferred some to her sippy cup, which she finished. She asked for more and I figured it would not keep and why not right? As we’re waiting in line to board (me with the car seat, diaper bag, and her), she starts crying so I picked her up. Puke down the front of my shirt, all over her, and on the floor. I did not have a clean shirt for myself. Best. Day. Ever. So note to self: easy on the chocolate milk next time – no matter how cute she is.
My 6mo daughter had RSV and was super fussy. I had gotten zero sleep because I was paranoid she would quit breathing on me (again) and my nerves just couldn’t handle that. She normally sleeps in her crib all night but during this trying time, she slept with me. In a toddler bed! My 2 yr old had strep at the same time and was sleeping in my bed. Basically we done a bed swap to fit everyone’s needs. My dear husband was such a trooper through it all. He even learned medicine dosages for the kids ????
This year my family went to a ski resort for our Christmas together. The first morning there my 20 month old daughter woke up with Pink eye. My sister started wiping down my 2 yr old nieces toys and trying to keep her away from my daughter because they had a trip to Disney planned right after Christmas. My sister-in-law, who is pregnant, had also been holding her and apparently pregnant women can’t use the same eye drops. Luckily her Dr’s office is open on weekends and called in a prescription to a pharmacy nearby without me having to take her to be seen. We spent the rest of the weekend wiping down everything she touched and trying to keep my niece out of her face, which is not an easy task since the two of them adore each other.
New Year’s Eve. 11:55.
10. It started with what we thought was just a cough, 9. but then 8. the smell. 7. Our two-year-old vomitting all 6. Over 5. His 4. Bed. The mad dash to strip him 3. And the bed. 2. While making it to the toilet just in time for 1. Round two, the ball to drop and a new year’s kiss HAPPY NEW YEAR 12:00
I guess if we had to ring in the new year taking care of a sick baby ALL.NIGHT.LONG. there is no one else I’d rather spend it with than my husband. #teamwork
Here’s to health and happiness for the rest of 2016 ????
When my daughter wakes up sick in the middle of the night it’s usually because she threw up. I still haven’t figured out the best way to get her vomit out of the carpet without waking up her baby brother who shares a room with her. The laundry room is right next to their room too, so I even risk waking him up when I have to wash her sheets after she has vomited on them.
Oh the norovirus! Baby vomit, toddler vomit, spouse vomit…then me. Worst night of my life!
Oh my gosh. I could go on and on. We have 5 kids under 7… Aka more up-late-at-night-sick stories than we can count (laugh or cry, people). Most recently, the 2yo got croup in Vienna, Austria as our friends’ international flight was arriving for their 10 day stay with us (oh yeah, which included 7 kids and 3 adults in a one bedroom, one bath apartment). Then there was the flu that masqueraded as food poisoning, which I got first (and worst), and then contracted hives since I’m an idiot and didn’t read the instructions on Pepto Bismol and overdosed, then had to take care of all 5 kids and hubby as the flu cycled through the rest of the family (still with hives), including scrubbing everything of puke in the middle of the night a few times. It was joyous. Oh, almost forgot, the flu started Christmas Eve. Best. Christmas. Ever. However, we love Little Remedies. One of the few go-to kids’ meds in our family, and they seem to have something for pretty much everything.
The croup and flu and an 8 month old. It was a long week!
So I am a mommy of thee boys! All under 5. My two year old can get just the common cold and it’s an ordeal because of his asthma. So imagine me with a breast feeding 3month old and a 4 year old! My husband works super early Til the end of the day and so I hate to bother him he needs husband res. so when’s my son is breathing bad and coughing and crying and then wakes my oldest up the other night I knew I was in for it! Getting the breathing treatments and the machine and the medicine while calming my 4 year old and holding my 2 year old and baby in other hand was just a huge nightmare! But it’s all about staying calm and collected! I got through the night and made sure to have everything set up the next couple nights !!!
Thanksgiving 2015 will forever be known as the year that Joey shit on the floor. It was a rough November, kicked off by my 3yo daughter getting strep throat TWICE. Then my 1yo son got croup that required a few er trips and steroids. He required antibiotics for an accompanying ear infection but it upset his stomach and gave him diarrhea. So on Thanksgiving at Grandma’s I was just thankful for family to help out with the kids. Right before we sit down to eat I notice my son has another smelly diaper and Grandma offers to change him. Well, she noticed that he was getting some diaper rash from the diarrhea and figured some fresh air would do some good. My son happily runs half naked thru the crowd of family. On one of his laps around the house we hear him farting and find he had been starting mid-run thru the living room leaving several gifts along the way. I laughed until I cried.
Woke up at 2 am one Winter to my 18 month old twin boys crying. I went in their room and got them out of their cribs and was trying to sort out what was wrong when all of a sudden one of then throws up on me, I’m screaming for my husband and trying to figure out what to do as I’m covered in throw up (also the one time my kids ever ate all their food which was tater tot casserole) I lay one kid down on all the blankets i can find and grab the other and the he throws up , luckily I had found a blanket. I’m yelling to my husband to bring all towels and blankets he can and to hurry because I don’t know when it will happen again. Finally he arrives and we lay the towels and blankets out and set the boys on the floor waiting for more vomiting. They would perk back up the throw up and look so pathetic every 15 minutes throughout the night while we scrambled to comfort kiddos and get rid of the vomit. It was if we had no clue what we were doing and we never though to grab a bowl! We all woke up on the floor and luckily they were feeling much better, however my husband and I felt doomed it was going to happen to us! The stomach flu is the worst!!
I have 5 kids, ages 2, 3, 9, 10 and 11. Sickness at our house is just lovely.
Everybody got a stomach bug. My husband was too ill to get out of bed. I was ill, and dealing with a 15 mo old who started the whole thing and got everybody sick. Ugh. How come mom is the parent that always has to work through it?
my daughter is a bad sleeper even when she isn’t sick. here is her worst night ever:
http://www.thekriegers.org/2014/03/look-whos-finally-feeling-well-enough-to-change-out-of-her-pajamas/
but then when she was 19 mos old and i was 36 wks pregnant and she was awake from 1-4 every night? then she had no excuse. she was just trying to break me.