Again, peanut had ANOTHER ear infection. That is three in so many months. This time I didn't figure it was an ear infection, so I stayed home from work for 2 days. When she gets sick like that I end up giving her three different types of medication. Luckily, she has grown into a little girl who doesn't fight the medicine. She doesn't get anything sweet, so she may even see it as a treat. I messed up one day and double dosed her on the COUGH SYRUP. That is right, the prescription cough syrup got mixed up with the Motrin and I dosed her for the Motrin.
I am such a great mom.
Today, I couldn't figure out why peanut's antibiotic was almost gone, and I was only 5 days into a 10 day cycle. I looked at the label and saw that it was dosed for .5 teaspoons, and I had been giving her 1 teaspoon. All during my run this morning, I was trying to figure out how I could avoid calling the doctor and admitting that I overdosed the baby... AGAIN. I know overdosing antibiotics won't cause her any harm, but it isn't good. And it doesn't look good for a mom to keep calling the doctor, "aaaaahhh yay, see, i have been giving my baby double the dosage. I just wanted to see what would happen." But... my saving grace, was that the medicine that read .5 teaspoons was from last months ear infection. I found this months on the counter with the 1 teaspoon dosage. So maybe I am not so bad after all.
Anyway, I spent the whole morning feeling like an awful mom because yesterday all I wanted was to be away from peanut for a while and focus on myself. And then today, I think that I am O.D.ing my baby.
Mr. T. had a hard week as well. I was in meetings all Monday morning and when I got to my desk there was a frantic call from him stating that I needed to come home as soon as possible because he had locked Peanut and his keys in the car. I guess that morning something was wrong with the car and when he got out to look under the hood the door closed with his keys still in the ignition. The AC was turned off because he was trying to figure out what the noise was. Somehow, the doors locked and he couldn't get in to get his keys, cell phone, or BABY. He woke the neighbors up to use there phone. He eventually ended up calling 911 and the fire department came to open the car. Mr. T. said he was pretty close to throwing a brick through the window. Peanut was okay. It was the first day that it was below 85 in the morning so she didn't get too hot, just a little sweaty. Mr. T. said she was smiling and laughing the whole time. It was awful to hear him retell the story. I talked to him at noon, and he was still pretty shook up about it all.
This crawling and pulling up thing is really crazy. I am almost afraid to leave the room when she is in it. I am afraid she will fall or even worse, do something remarkable and I miss it. She has started taking the tentative steps towards cruising. I am setting up little baby obstacle courses in her room so she can move from one table to the next. We have been slowly baby proofing this old house. As you can see from the phone cord above, we still have some things left to do.
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That's ok, I am a terrible mom too. Tess wanted to stand up the other day and I was tired of her smacking me so I let her stand in the crib while I got dressed. I was less than one foot away from her the whole time but while I was pulling my shirt over my head she let go, fell over and smashed her head on the bars so hard that it bounced. I was petrified and ran her outside to make sure that her pupils would dialate. She didn't even cry although I was convinced that she would suffer a massive brain hemmorhage at any moment.
The today she ate almost all the silver stuff off of Super Grover's helmet before I noticed. I say, three ear infections? You have every right to be frazzled.
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