Here's the scoop; I work outside the home 4 days per week while my son, Timothy, attends daycare. On any given day we have a nice routine, one in which everyone showers, gets dressed and gets out of the house. However, for the past 4 days I've been home caring for him as he is suffering from an ear infection and RSV (a really bad cold) -- Not to mention he's cutting his third tooth! So, instead of going to work my days have looked something like this:
- 5:30am Fight to feed him his first bottle of expressed breast milk (his ears are killing him, this is not an easy task) Repeat every three hours.
- Pump every four hours
- Take his temperature at every diaper change (make sure he's wetting diaper every 4 hours)
- Administer Tylenol or Motrin if needed
- Administer disgusting artificially colored & flavored, clothes-staining antibiotics 2x per day
- Put him down for a nap (which is currently no more than 30-45 min) eat something, straighten the house, and try to do some office work and answer emails, texts and voicemails from concerned family members.
- Attempt to give him solid food such as mashed avocado, rice cereal or carrots 2-3x per day. (Only to wear half of it after he coughs and or sneezes it all over me.)
- Give him a sippy cup lesson
- Hug him, kiss him, love him (my favorite part of the day!!)
- Play and read to him and make sure he gets enough "tummy time"
- Suck the boogers out of his nose 1000X per day
- Sing non-stop for 20 minutes while I nebulize him 4x per day
- Clean him and his jumper-roo up after what seems to be a daily "explosion" (what is it with that thing and pooping?)
- Bathe him. Massage him. Put Aquaphor on every inch of him. Suck more boogers.
- Put him down for the night.
- Did I mention suck his boogers?
- Launder everything he's pooped and drooled on that day.
- Beat myself up because I'm still in my antibiotic-carrot-poop-breastmilk-stained robe!