Sick Babes

The Thursday after Halloween, Trent woke up at about 5am coughing and crying. When I picked him up out of his crib, he vomited all over himself and on me. After the shock of what just happened, I woke up completely. I cleaned us up and put Trent in the bed with Todd and me, in attempts to put Trent back to sleep. I started to nurse Trent and seconds later, he threw up again, on me, himself and in our bed, it was an absolute mess! For a second time, I changed Trent, myself and I had to wake Todd up to change our bed sheets and put everything in the wash, then put new sheets on our bed. By this time it was only 5:30am.

At this point, I gave up on sleep and just sat in the rocking chair with my sick little man. Since Todd was already awake, with no hopes of going back to sleep, he decided to get dressed for work. While sitting in the rocking chair, getting extra snuggles, Trent threw up again for the third time! How was it possible that there was anything left?? Todd left for work and soon after Taelyn woke up. I made breakfast for Taelyn and gave Trent a few bites of her eggs *Bad Idea* he threw up, yet again.

Trent had a few dry heaving and gagging episodes, somewhere in the middle of all of the vomit, I called the on-call nurse and she told me to not give him anything to eat at all and to only give him a teaspoon of Pedialyte every half hour. If he got a fever and seemed lethargic, then I should take him into Urgent Care. Todd ended up coming home to help me out, (despite his crazy workload.) By the time Todd got home, Trent seemed to be fine. That is how it always works, you call for reinforcements and when they get there, everything is just fine. The rest of the day consisted of Pedialyte and lots of snuggles.

Fast forward to the next night... At midnight, Taelyn woke up crying and coughing and by the time I made it to her room, she had vomited AND had diarrhea in her bed. UGH! I woke Todd up, to help me and I took her sheets and her clothes off and put them in the wash, while Todd put Taelyn in the bath. Low and behold, as soon as I was done bathing her, Trent woke up because he vomited in his bed. Lord help me, more laundry! I cleaned him up and put them both in bed with us and tried to get some rest. Needless to say, it was it a LONG night!

This was about 1:30am. Both were crying and both ONLY wanted me. They are on top of me in these pictures.

This was at about 4am. Taelyn was sleeping with Daddy and Trent and I were awake.

After what seemed like the longest night ever, I had to wake up to pump since I couldn't nurse... Trent was NOT happy about this at all.

My poor boy fell asleep in his high chair after a long sleepless night.

Since Todd took the day off the day before, there was no way he could have stayed home again. Boy, did he take the wrong day off!!! Both kids were having vomiting spells as well as diarrhea. It was the WORST! I ended up putting Taelyn in a diaper because she couldn't control, nor get to the bathroom fast enough when she felt the diarrhea coming. Poor girl was mortified! She cried and said, "No Diapy, Diapies are for babies, NOT Taelyn!"

I ended up taking them to the doctor. Since it was business hours, they were able to see their pediatrician. He told me that they have a stomach virus that is going around and gave us a prescription for nausea, gave poor Trent some fluids because he was showing signs of dehydration and sent us on our way. Can't put a price on piece of mind. By Saturday, Taelyn was well, she bounced back pretty quickly, while Trent was on the mend.

By Sunday, I thought they were all better. The time changed, (Fall back) so we were up much earlier than usual. I made some yummy Egg Biscuit Puffs for breakfast and got the kids dressed for Church.

On the way there, Trent threw up AGAIN! UGH!!! My amazing neighbor Jay checked Taelyn into her class, while I took Trent home to hang with Daddy.

I was able to go back to church and enjoy the word ALONE. Boy, was it needed. This was the first time I have had to deal with sickness like this with my kids and I'm sure it won't be the last... It was a rough few days. The kids are now back to normal and I am so thankful for that. Times like this show you how strong you are and how strong you have to be, to be a mommy. I didn't think I had it in me. I was "that person" who couldn't even watch someone throw up without wanting to toss my own cookies, my have I grown and toughened up! Gotta put your big girl panties on to be a mommy, it certainly is not for the weak!