Jaimie Etkin: The Devil Wore Manolos
My kids are always sick
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Because kindergartners in our district are eased into the schedule with a confusing assortment of half days and days off designed to give parents adrenaline heart attacks with the 'ACK! HALF DAY TODAY?! Regular?' second guessing that frequently happens when in the produce section (or maybe that's just me) today was Scott's 4th day of school.
Or it would have been, had the child been well enough to go.
Last night the sound the strikes fear into the hearts of parents everywhere sliced through the still, night air: the dreaded barking of a dying seal washed up on the shore.
There's been all sorts of research that says breastfed kids are healthier than formula babies. If it's really true, my kids wouldn't have made it past that first year. Even with nature's antibodies, someone was sick with an ear infection, croup, flu, mystery fever, malaria, bubonic plague, or some sort of undiagnosable illness a good portion of the time. And there is nothing more annoying than a family member asking, "So how are the boys?" and having that followed by loud sighing and helpful reminders that, "You guys are ALWAYS sick!" (Thanks! Between the cleaning up of bodily fluids and pushing of liquids and monitoring of medications, I hadn't even noticed!)
So if anyone asks, we're all FINE. Couldn't be better! Thanks for asking!
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
9-11-2007 @ 5:29PM
Amanda said...geeze, I feel for ya. We went through a spell where our daughter (only at the time) was constantly sick. she had ear infections every month and then within three months she contracted three major childhood illnesses at her daycare, one of which hospitalized her for dehydration. (all of this happened before she was a year old mind you). We got tubes put in her ears and she has been fine ever since, barring a minor cold here and there, not requiring doctor visits. When baby #2 came along I was like I AM BREASTFEEDING THIS CHILD so she won't be sick, and she got sick once or twice with minor colds, however that's been it, she is healthy as an ox! or maybe we were just lucky with her? who knows I just thank God every day they are healthy now
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9-11-2007 @ 7:02PM
tuliptoe said...I breastfed my now 3 year old until she was 2 and she has spent a pretty high majority of her time on earth sick. With various upper respiratory and ear infections etc... I also found out that since my husband and I have malformations in our sinus cavities (too small) and our inner ears (tubes too tilted) our daughter most likely has these problems as well. All the breast milk in the WORLD ain't fixing that!
Please know that I feel your pain and would never say "Your always sick." I hate that too. :(
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9-11-2007 @ 5:46PM
tuliptoe said...*sigh Commenting again to add, I'd never say "Your always SICK" because it's YOU'RE. gah.
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9-11-2007 @ 8:27PM
Ann Adams said...Hi tuliptoe
Don't you just hate it when your correction comes in ahead of your original post?
It took me 3 tries last night to get one comment right and even then I'm afraid to go back and read it. I might find something else.
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9-12-2007 @ 4:53AM
rumana said...i'm another one of those moms who brestfed (till my daughter was 17 months old) but didn't get the results in terms of less sicknesses. She often had diorrhoea, colds, coughs, etc and is just recovering from an ear infection and now has a stye in one eye. As a result of her constant illnesses we've had a lot of problems getting her weight up. I also read somewhere breast fed children are more likely to have constipation? And also had to cope with the fact that she liked breast milk so much she refused to have anything else (i.e formula/cow's milk/soy milk, etc) , so what do you feed the kid when I am ill and on medication? Sighhh... no one warns us of these problems do they?
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9-26-2007 @ 6:17AM
neta said...My baby was never been a breasfed baby. She is 4 years old now. I think she is very healthy and never got serious sick.
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