Scared Nanay

I just want to share, right now I’m experiencing the feeling that all moms never want to feel — having a sick baby/child. Babies as young as Lucas (a year and about 4 months old), still can’t express how they really feel and tell us what’s painful or what’s making them so uncomfortable. So first time moms like me of course can’t help but feel scared whenever our babies get sick.

The summer of this year, he went to his pedia more often than he was still an infant. He used to go there just for his monthly check-ups and vaccines. But now we paid her a visit like every other week. I don’t know if the weather has something to do with it, or there’s a strong virus around who’s making a lot kids sick recently. He has taken a dose of antibiotics, antihistamine and has been nebulized for his cough and colds. After enjoying a week of not tasking any medications, here he goes again with cough and colds. This time he just needs to nebulize and take montelukast. But then, he was also given a first flu shot (last Monday). His pedia said it’s ok despite his condition. I don’t know if this was thr culprit because he actually didn’t have fever, but a slight one. His temperature just rose a little bit. Because of this he became cranky and irritable so I decided to give him paracetamol and let him consume an oral rehydration to prevent him from getting dehydrated (these were instructed by the pedia in case there’s a rise of temperature). He became a lot better afterwards. But the cough and colds are still there and continue to irritate him. He wasn’t able to sleep so well last night because of this and yeah me too because I kept on checking up on him. Today, I decided to take a leave off from work so I can personally take care of him observe his condition. I’m so relieved now that he’s asleep. I started holding him into my arms to give him the most comfortable position for him to drink his milk. And when he fell asleep, I laid him on the bed and on his own, found his most comfortable sleeping position.

It’s just scary when your child is sick or just not feeling well. Whenever this happens it comes to my realization that it’s really not easy being parents, especially a mom. Now I realized how much my own mom got scared when one of us gets sick. I’m experiencing it now and I’m praying that Lucas gets well soon.