Every time Kris goes away on business weird things happen. I am normally the one to end up sick, but not this time. I decided to be super mom yesterday and get everything clean. The kids even helped. We had a "Too Cold day" from school. The house looked GREAT! I even took the kids to visit and have lunch with the Great Grandmas. Today was a bunch of shopping while the kids had fun with the Evans. I was so tired I took a bit of a catnap on the couch while the kids watch some cartoons. Woke up to Evan being really REALLY fussy. (this was on Friday)
That is were I ended it last night.......(this was on Saturday---whoops still sick)
I had to stop....I ended up sick....so on with my story. (Now it's Sunday.)
About a 1/2 hour before Kris got home Elaine was sitting next to me on the love seat and said "Mom my tummy doesn't feel good". This is a common thing in our hold we have a little hypochondriac, so I tell her "Go upstairs and go potty, brush your teeth and get ready for bed." This always my solution to things. After all that is the first thing that I want to do when I get sick. So she heads up their and I notice that the dog has gotten sick on the carpet on the way into the computer/play room. Elaine starts yelling and crying for me......I go up there kind of irritated and she has thrown-up all over the bathroom floor. My first reaction was (this is bad) "Couldn't you have leaned to other side and thrown-up in the waste basket?" A tired mind makes a grouchy mom. She said no....we got it cleaned up and her straighted up and in bed....Kris gets home and she is still sick. She was in bed for part of the night while we enjoyed some TV then when I went to bed we decided that it would be a good idea for her to be downstairs with Kris so that someone would be with her (he stays up late). Then I got sick. AND once I finally got to sleep Izzy came into my room....."Mommy can I cuddle with you?" Sure come on up. So she is in bed and not sleeping yet and hear this noise coming from her, and I know that if she throws up again I will smell and do the same thing. So I start calling for Kris (the baby monitor was on). He comes up to take over...but not before she got sick too. I didn't want it allover my bed so I sat in front of her hold her blanket so that it would all land in there. All three of us were sick all night long and didn't function well at all on Saturday. I am still queasy. The girls are doing better. On Saturday I had a Baby Shower that I so wanted to attend and a surprise birthday party in the evening that I was going to bring the fruit tray too. I didn't make either of those. (Thank you cousin Meredith for pick up the fruit and taking care of that.) Kris and I are also new co-Sunbeam teachers and we are working consistency with the kids and getting them used to us. It is so hard to go from Nursery to having to sit in primary. They are doing so good, but they do keep us on our toes. AND I was supposed to talk in church. I feel horrible for missing both of those events but I just knew that if I stood up there I would get so nervous with my already sick stomach that I would mess up the clean floor up there....or run out embarrassing myself. The other traumatic (yes we have a house full of drama queens) thing of this weekend was that I go so dehydrated I wasn't able to nurse.....nothing came out. I really did try but after 5 hours of him latched on and trying we settled for the formula. Luckily I had some that the company had sent me in the mail. So know I am in the process of trying to figure out what to do. I HAD to give him formula and I HATE that. I feel like I am not doing my job. Nursing is so important to me. I felt like I was failing at my job. BUT I am grateful for the formula that I had in the kitchen. I think it is coming back....slowly I am doing the More Milk thing from Motherlove, but does anyone have other ideas?
I am also very GRATEFUL that Kris took care of the kids so I could be sick and not worry about them. Also grateful for whoever taught primary for us and the Bishopric for speaking in my place. THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
AND Elaine is getting baptised next Saturday at 2pm. Just wanted you to know...I will be posting pics!
2 comments:
Wow! And I was going to call you today to see how your crazy weekend went. Sorry it ended up being this kind of crazy! Yuk! I hope you are feeling better. I would call you now but I don't want to risk waking you up, I am sure you need the sleep. As for the nursing...the only thing I can say is drink, drink, drink. Lots of water!
Wow, Ranisa! You POOR thing! I hope things are calming down now. Had this problem with Imogen. We ALL got a VERY severe stomach flu, everyone, but her. I rented a hosptial grade pump therafter and tried to increase my supply. It worked a bit but my supply was weak from the get-go with Immy. I know it can help a lot. I think it depends on the person. Hospital-grade pumps are amazing though. Oh, and I did that tea stuff too, don't know for sure if that helped, but it can't hurt. BTW, don't beat yourself up. I've been in your position and it can seem overwhelming but you're a good mom and things like this sometime happen. It ALWAYS works out, even if it doesn't feel like it will.
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