If you talk to a thousand parents, you'll get a thousand different suggestions for taking
care of a sick baby.
Most of the
symptoms of a sick baby are pretty obvious, but it's a bit harder because they can't communicate with you.
We find that taking care
of a sick baby through the night is not for wimps, and that providing for a family can require a great deal of strength.
This is important both from an increased fluid need while sick (making all the mucous which comes out the
nose of a sick baby requires a lot more fluid than normal) and from an immune and stem cell perspective.
Many of the things I've got in the next list can happen because your baby started a problem that then got worse, but sometimes it's just that your hormones haven't settled down in the first 3 months and milk production is all over the place, or that your feeding schedule is all over the place
because of a sick baby or one who wants to wean (or is just refusing the breast for some reason like teething or an ear infection).
It does not matter that others say, «The next one will stick» or «At least it ended this way
instead of a sick baby.»
Day in the life
of a sick baby involves countless diaper changes (thank you cloth diapers), countless fever checks, countless snuggles, and countless attempts to convince the sick baby to take his medication.
In less Washington terms, Glynn means an employer can withhold a day of pay if a worker misses a shift to take
care of a sick baby.
Roisin Gowan is a Dublin - based Registered Dietitian who specialises in the care
of sick babies and older children.
I've now entered week 3
of sick baby life.
But, I'm on day 15
of sick baby.