Well, first of all, I pick up my child from daycare yesterday only to find a knot the size of a door knob growing off the corner of her forehead. I am pissed and want answers. No one knows what happened to her. Well, I could see that she was not affected by it but it looked horrible. She looked like someone deliberately hit her in the head with a bat. She was not pretty.
The director and I examined her and came to the conclusion that Madi must have been bitten by an insect and had an allergic reaction to it. The huge bump had a small raised area inside it, which looked like an insect bite. No bruise or anything, so we ruled out the possibility of a beat down.
Anyway, we put an ice pack on it and gave her some benadryl before putting her to bed. I was praying that it went down tremendously over night because baby girl was looking a hot mess.
Around 3:30AM I hear a persistent cough that is driving me insane. I am a light sleeper and I swear since having a child I barely sleep at all. I always have one eye and one ear open with one leg out of the bed ready for take off. After 30 minutes of pure torture I finally bring myself to get out of bed to see why my child is all of sudden hacking up a lung. She had drainage in her throat that was making her cough consecutively.
I stayed up with her for about an hour...I do not know why. At 5AM I gave her some cough syrup and put her in bed with us. Her father lasted about 15 minutes through the coughing, got up and took her to our guest room. He knows that I cannot sleep through the coughing so he sleeps with her in another room. Well, it did not help much because I could still hear her and she was getting worse. Before we knew it, it was 6AM and his alarm went off and it meant that I would have to get up in about an hour. Lord NO! I cried.
I was so sleepy and irritated. I called the pediactric clinic for advice and my job to let them know that I would be late because I needed some rest. I got the approval to stay home or just come in later. Cool.
What was not cool was that Madi got up and was alert at 7:30AM and was not going back to sleep. I told her to lie down and she didn't. I pulled the covers over my head and she pulled them back. I could not believe how alert she was.
After fighting with her to get back to sleep I finally gave in and got up to start our day. I got her dressed, fed her, and got myself out of the house and off to work.
Here is the kicker......she did not cough at all since being awake! I could not believe that I missed almost 4 hours of sleep over her coughing and miraculously she's not coughing anymore. How convenient!
The director and I examined her and came to the conclusion that Madi must have been bitten by an insect and had an allergic reaction to it. The huge bump had a small raised area inside it, which looked like an insect bite. No bruise or anything, so we ruled out the possibility of a beat down.
Anyway, we put an ice pack on it and gave her some benadryl before putting her to bed. I was praying that it went down tremendously over night because baby girl was looking a hot mess.
Around 3:30AM I hear a persistent cough that is driving me insane. I am a light sleeper and I swear since having a child I barely sleep at all. I always have one eye and one ear open with one leg out of the bed ready for take off. After 30 minutes of pure torture I finally bring myself to get out of bed to see why my child is all of sudden hacking up a lung. She had drainage in her throat that was making her cough consecutively.
I stayed up with her for about an hour...I do not know why. At 5AM I gave her some cough syrup and put her in bed with us. Her father lasted about 15 minutes through the coughing, got up and took her to our guest room. He knows that I cannot sleep through the coughing so he sleeps with her in another room. Well, it did not help much because I could still hear her and she was getting worse. Before we knew it, it was 6AM and his alarm went off and it meant that I would have to get up in about an hour. Lord NO! I cried.
I was so sleepy and irritated. I called the pediactric clinic for advice and my job to let them know that I would be late because I needed some rest. I got the approval to stay home or just come in later. Cool.
What was not cool was that Madi got up and was alert at 7:30AM and was not going back to sleep. I told her to lie down and she didn't. I pulled the covers over my head and she pulled them back. I could not believe how alert she was.
After fighting with her to get back to sleep I finally gave in and got up to start our day. I got her dressed, fed her, and got myself out of the house and off to work.
Here is the kicker......she did not cough at all since being awake! I could not believe that I missed almost 4 hours of sleep over her coughing and miraculously she's not coughing anymore. How convenient!
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