Vom-tastic
Apologies to every one with a post ready for the Workshop but I’m going to have to postpone it till tomorrow.
So sorry – as most of you, I’m sure, saw on Twitter last night, Gastro has hit the George household for the first time. Kai is doing a astoundingly efficient job of demonstrating just how much sick one toddler can hold, and rapidly covering everything I own with, what my lovely friend the NDM , would describe on her Children’s Vomit Scale as variations of Type 1, 2 and 5.
I am currently holding him extremely still on my lap, surrounded by towels, and reckon I’ve just about got time to tell you about the important life lessons I have learnt in the last 16 hours:
- Baked beans, when regurgitated, are white and red and gross.
- The number that come out bares absolutely no relation to the number that seemingly went in.
- The image of a toddler hunched neatly over a sick bowl is a bit of a misnomer. Having never been sick before Kai is pretty freaked out, has somehow suddenly managed to develop an unholy fear of buckets, and has, as a result, managed to deposit sick down the neckline of pretty much everything I own in a very short space of time.
- Do not allow your sick toddler to bend over a pair of your favourite trainers.
- When short of a suitable receptacle, a Bob the Builder hat makes an excellent impromptu sick-catcher.
- You do not own enough bedding. Or towels. Or clothes. Or washing machines. Or extra pairs of hands.
- A brief stint as a care assistant in a high-dependency nursing home is essential training for anyone contemplating parenthood. The resulting densenstivity to poo and sick will serve you well when your husband is gagging in the corner.
- Despite thinking that you had already completely depleted your reserves of patience and energy, one look at you pale, wan toddler will revive you immediately and allow you to spend all night, quite cheerfully, holding his little hot body and allow you to wake up after only about 4 hours sleep ready to cuddle and clean up sick all day long. Motherhood is a bit weird like that.
And that is all.
Happy Thursday everyone. See you on the other side…
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Oh bless him, I hope he feels better soon. There must be a lot of bugs going around BG has it coming out the other end! BG had a really bad tummu bug before christmas and she must of been sick on me at least 4 times! Plenty of fluids and hugs from mummy and I’m sure he will be well soon xx
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Josie Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 9:17 am
@New Mummy, Four??! Oh I’m well into double figures! Thanks honey, I’m sure he’ll be fine 
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Despite thinking that you had already completely depleted your reserves of patience and energy, one look at you pale, wan toddler will revive you immediately and allow you to spend all night, quite cheerfully, holding his little hot body and allow you to wake up after only about 4 hours sleep ready to cuddle and clean up sick all day long. Motherhood is a bit weird like that.
And you may find this holds true even if you are a single parent, even when you yourself have that same gastrobug and can barely move for retching and illness and there is no one else to help you at all. You may find reserves of strength that you literally did not know existed. And that’s the moment you’ll realise, no, you shouldn’t have to do it alone, no one should… but that you can. At least, it worked like that for me.
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oh sweetie, hope he is feeling better soon and you don’t catch it yourself. Sending lots of hugs, virtual ones only mind, no way I’m hugging you with all that puke down your top.
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Oh, Josie! Type 1, 2 AND 5? Double Figures?
Wow, when you guys get gastro, you really go to town. Well, you don’t literally go to town, though if you were to go to town, I’d suggest buying some more sheets and towels.
Good luck, keep up the fluids, keep the diet really plain (when food is a possibility) and for god’s sake, watch what comes out the Other End.
Hugs.
From someone Who Knows.
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On the positive side… be thankful that you only have one voming child to deal with….
The last we had it – they all had it…. and so did I! Model Girl projectiled spag bol and chocolate moussse all over her white bedroom wall and Sonny…… well he decided to carry his deposit to me in his hands – all through the house…. Which was nice…..
Hang in there, it will pass – just hope your washing machine hold out!
xx
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I was going to write something about how one of the weird side effects of being in Bosnia has been the lack of vomiting bugs but decided that would jinx it so instead I will sympathise from the times when we were living in the UK and had 5 vomiting bugs in the space of 3 months. And chicken pox. And my second was born in the middle of the 3 months. It was not a happy time. Hope Kai feels better soon and I really hope that you don’t get it. xxx
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I mean the vomiting bugs were not a happy time, not my second being born.
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which was a very happy time. Where’s the coffee? I clearly need some.
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You poor things! What is it about husbands and sick? They DO just sort of gag & say ‘ Well I can’t do it. I’ll be sick’. Like that’s OK then & quite clearly it’s not a ‘dad’ sort of job at all. Like it’s connected to breastfeeding or something… weird.
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hope he is feeling better soon and that the rest of you manage to avoid catching it.
With my huge sick phobia even reading this is giving me cold sweats
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Poor Kai, obviously not a “happy sicker”. Have no advice to offer other than wear galoshes & a pac-a-mac at all times. Get well soon little Kai. x
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Oh Josie, I hope he feels better soon and doesn’t share it with you! The bug that’s going around seems to be a 24 hour thing, so fingers crossed x
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Urgh, poor you. Absolutely the ONLY good thing to be said for stomach bugs, compared to other types of bugs, is that they are usually mercifully brief, a couple of days at most. By which time you will have used every item of clothing you and they own, washed your sofa covers, carpets, shoes, walls and bedcovers at least once. Nothing says parenthood like catching sick in your hands in order to save your shoes.
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Hopefully this will pass soon and you’ll get feeling better! At least Kai seems to want to escape the sick rather than Clever Preschooler who once vomitted in the night and then turned around and laid his head down at the other end of his cot without waking us. . .
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Oh Josie, hugs muchly! I can just picture Mr G (as Drew would call him) all hunched in the corner.
Hope he feels better soon!
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Oh poor you. I hope he gets better soon and you don’t catch it. As for men, they’re great for talking about sick and poo, but when it comes to cleaning it, they just gag and cannot take it. X
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There is something about my own children’s sick which turns me into an automated robot. I can clear it up with no problem. Anyone elses sick and I have to run a mile whilst heaving.
Even when you thnk you have enough bedding, you slowly realise at 2am that you don’t have half as much as you need.
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What a poor little mite. Would much rather mop up dog poo than kiddy sick. Seriously.
Lots of tlc from me, CJ xx
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There is little more hellish in the run of childhood illnesses – particularly with a toddler or baby. when they get older it gets easier, believe me. Not nicer, but easier.
Invest in antiseptic wipes or spray, use it religiously so not everyone catches bug (all vomiting at once is hell) ah, and some very very good advice i was given, 80 ml of fluid per hour, given in 20 ml per 15 min incraments, is generally kept down and will keep them hydrated, that is the important thing. If they can’t keep that down doctor…HUGS to both of you many of them.
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Ohhhhh maaaannn! I really feel for ya. When my daughter was a toddler I remember her once getting sick after having some mild chili… to say it was a mess is putting it mild.
Sending lots of anti-vom vibes dow the blogosphere to you all!! Hope it clears soon. x
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Just sending my best, I am not a vomit person ar all
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… and there was me thinking I was late
Sorry to hear you’ve got the bug and keepign everything crossed we don’t get it here! we’re only just over flu
Hope Kai bounces back quickly
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Hoping Kai feels better soon and thanks for the tip about the baked beans!
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I feel your pain, hope it passes and you all reach the other side soon. My kids are playing tag team with chicken pox so I have my nurses outfit on again to administer calamine lotion to nasty places today. How DO spots get in such places? Take it easy.
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Oh there’s a vomit scale?!
Hope the little fella is feeling better soon x
p.s. I was once sick on my friends shoes and she said they came up ultra shiny after a wipe. Hope the same goes for your trainers!
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Yikes. Just reading this post makes me feel queasy, but I forced myself to read it (and the NDM vomit scale post) as I definitely need to desensitise. I am (I found out thanks to Google) an emetophobe, i.e. afraid of vomit, which doesn’t mix well with being a mum.
When my daughter was 2 1/2 she puked 16 times in one night, then randomly over the next 10 days. It was, without doubt, the worst of my mothering experiences so far. But I’m guessing it’s only a matter of time before a worse experience hits – like the 2 kids puking at the same time – and quite honestly I dread it. I wish I could deal with it ‘manfully’ (ha ha) like you obviously do.
Here’s hoping the little guy is better ASAP.
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you have my very deepest sympathy, vomiting children is THE worst thing in the world, followed quickly by being in a house where 15 adults in turn succumb to the same bug. Put both together and you have what happened to us Christmas ’08, an experience from which I am still, most definitely, scarred. For about 6 mths I asked Son whether there was any chance he was feeling sick about every hour… Hope you cope better than me and emerge unscathed on the other side!
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You poor things we all had this last year, it’s awful.
It is amazing the super human energy you develop when you see your child quivering with illness, you just don’t need sleep….until everyone is better, then you drop to the floor!
Hoping for a speedy recovery xxx
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Oh you poor things. It is horrid. A year ago I had laryngitis, Ben got it started vomitting, we got antibiotics which made him puke even more (and get the squits) and led to a phobia about drinking or eating (just what you want with a dehydrated toddler). I am in awe of anyone who trys to marshall a toddler to be sick into a receptacle!
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Aww honey poor wee soul and big hugs to both of you. I hope he gets better soon and your immune system is strong enough not to let it in.
I remember the sickness only too well, being vomited down my cleveage not pleasant. xx
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Hope he is feeling better – and that you haven’t caught it!
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oh sweetie, hope he is feeling better soon and you don't catch it yourself. Sending lots of hugs, virtual ones only mind, no way I'm hugging you with all that puke down your top.
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Josie Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 9:17 am
@New Mummy, Four??! Oh I’m well into double figures! Thanks honey, I’m sure he’ll be fine
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New Mummy Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:11 am
@Josie,
Poor you. I got wise quickly to the signs she was going to vomit and made sure there was a bowl or something to catch it x x
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New Mummy Reply:
February 4th, 2010 at 10:11 am
@Josie,
Poor you. I got wise quickly to the signs she was going to vomit and made sure there was a bowl or something to catch it x x
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