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<\/p>\nWell, that title just about says it all. <\/p>\n
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p{color:gray}. Photo: “Will you pick me up? I promise (mostly) not to barf on you.”<\/p>\n
Poor Rosie caught a bug that has been going around, surprising us with a jumbo upchuck on Monday morning. We were pretty conservative all day Monday — giving her sips of Pedialyte every hour or so, no solids, finally nursing in the late afternoon (after Mama pumped, so as to limit the available volume). Besides some diarrhea, she seemed like she was on the road to recovery. And I was hoping that our vigorous hand-washing\/sanitizing\/bleaching\/sterilizing household regimen was going to help us escape further casualties. Alas, no such luck.<\/p>\n
On the upside, we all had a good night’s sleep — Rosie even slept all the way until 5:00 am before calling for some milk, which is a record for her. But, around 6:30, we thought we heard a very quiet, peaceful puke from Rosie’s room. She didn’t even wake up from it, so we didn’t confirm our suspicions for another half hour or so. Not out of the woods yet!<\/p>\n
Lucy and I took a trip to Jewel to stock up on some traditional groceries (peanut butter, cheese) and some sick-arsenal groceries (white bread, jell-o, more Pedialyte). Then, as soon as we walked through the door at home, Lucy promptly vomited right into Jon’s hiking boot. Poor girl! Poor boot!<\/p>\n
I’m hoping the girls are on the upswing now. Rosie is having a marathon nap, peacefully sleeping after a small snack of mother’s milk, and Lucy herself had a barf-free afternoon nap. She is currently taking frozen Pedialyte chips every ten minutes while I write this (whoever invented the Pedialyte ice pops was a genius!), and we are watching “_Finding Nemo_”:http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005JM02\/octothorppres-20. <\/p>\n
One of the hardest things about stomach bugs for me is the anxiety that comes from waiting for the surprise belly eruption. When will it happen? Do we have a bowl nearby? It’s the worst when I’m trying to sleep, listening for the telltale “cough” and cry.<\/p>\n
I’ve been extra-grateful for Jon’s help and presence today. It is one thing to care for sick kids, and another thing to do the clean-up _and_ comforting all on one’s own. Jon is such a champion — empathetic Papa, relentless sanitizer, efficient laundry man! But I also keep worrying — what will we do in a situation like this when Jon is no longer working from home? Jon has a couple of very promising “job opportunities”:\/news\/2009\/convalescing\/ in the works, but none of them have the sweet home-office deal we enjoy now. I know most other mothers are able to deal with it. What tricks do I need to learn?<\/p>\n
I’ve also been surprised by all the flashbacks I’m having to the day before I went into labor with Rosie — the “only other time”:\/news\/2008\/help-for-barfy-barney\/ Lucy has had a stomach bug like this. I continue to be grateful that I’m not nine months pregnant, and I keep saying, “Well, at least I’m not “giving birth tomorrow”:\/news\/2008\/baby-on-the-way\/.” That was definitely one interesting twist to Rosie’s “birth story”:\/news\/2008\/rosies-labor-the-cliffs-notes\/!<\/p>\n
Jon and I are looking forward to a (hopefully) quiet evening at home, ordering take-out in lieu of a canceled date night. Here’s hoping we avoid this plague!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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