Sweet Pea is sick. Just a cold, but still scary for us at times. During the day, she seems okay. Just a little stuffed up, runny nose, little cough, little bloody nose. But of course, at night she gets so much worse. Last night, she coughed so much that she threw up twice. And every time she throws up, it comes out her nose too which irritates all those little blood vessels in there and her nose gushes blood. So then you've got this tiny little thing covered in awful formula-smelling mucosy vomit and blood everywhere. Not a pretty picture, right? It's enough to freak out any parent, not to mention relatively new foster parents. Shannon generously offered to be the one to get up with her in the middle of the night last night. I think he was really regretting that at 3:30 in the morning when he finally came and woke me up with them both covered in vomit. Luckily, I'm good in crisis situations and stayed calm. Got her cleaned up and changed and rocked back to sleep. I'm back to getting up in the middle of the night just to check on her in her crib. She had a cold when we got her, but we didn't know what was normal for her then. It was all a whirlwind at that time and we didn't know what to expect.
She seems much better today, which is a relief. It's always in the middle of the night when you have to wonder if you should be rushing them to the ER. I hope tonight goes more smoothly. We were all tired today, taking turns napping off and on all day. I'm ready for this to pass.
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Oh dear Lord. I hope that Sweet Pea is feeling better and not vomiting any more. My son cried so hard that he vomited a few weeks ago, and we felt SOOO guilty that we had let him get to that point. So much so that we ended up totally breaking all of our rules and he had sleep issues after that for weeks because we totally were taking him into our bed and everything else we swore we werent' going to do!
I can't imagine how scary the bleeding vomit would be. Our daughter spit up blood the day she came home, and that completely freaked me out and it wasn't even a lot of blood. You have nerves of steel!
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