Sick baby

Anyone else with a sick baby right now?? It’s 11:30pm where I am and little guy will not go down in his crib. He’s had a fever all day and a cough, we are struggling over here. I want to put him in my bed and sleep next to him but I’m big on safe sleep so I’m just suffering awake in his rocking chair 🥲

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We did Earthley Cough Tamer, Elderberry and Vitamin C and…. onions in his socks-crazy, right? ( old world remedy)
Also, Diffused Young Living Thieves Oil in the room

Thankfully my little isn’t but my oldest has strep throat and has been sick since Friday. We are running on no sleep thankfully he’s felt a little better today. Having a sick kid is one of the worst things, I hate not being able to make them better.

This is our second cold and it’s sooo much worse than the first one. Last night we were getting like 20 minutes at a time before his stuffy nose or cough woke him up. Poor guy is so cranky. Tonight was a little better! He’s only has 2 wake ups so far which is actually pretty typical for him. Hang in there mama 💕

You can still safe sleep with him next to you! I moved my mattress on the floor and got rid of all pillows and blankets other than one small one which I keep at my waist. Wear a sweatshirt and then sleep on your side in a cuddle C. Make sure no medications or alcohol that impact sleep. But this has been game changer which he's been teething and not transferring

Every diaper change (2-3hr) from 5am-5pm do 2 saline drops in each nostril, massage their face a bit/ nose/ nasal passages, wait 2 minutes then suction the boogers with a bulb. It helps if you run the tip of bulb under hot water to make it warm first.

If formula or breastfed & they take a bottle, add 1 line of water to their bottle every OTHER bottle. This will help loosen the mucous/ we drink water when sick! Humidifier on at night next to baby & during the day run a hot shower 2-3x a day & play with baby/ sit with baby in the bathroom for steam 15 min, then bulb their boogers if present.

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Been together more than 10 years, but it's been a while since he even seemed remotely interested in me getting on my knees, or vice versa so to speak. I think it was once last year. Must be something I am doing wrong 🤔. Generally everything else in that department is great and we have two young kids with no extra support, so it's quite surprising we can't keep our hands off each other but may need to try new things. It's basically 2 positions each time with some foreplay.

I think Motherhood has made me more bitter than I realized…

This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

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