He has been steady drinking water and pedialyte. In addition I have been using pedialyte with frozen fruit in the Vitamix (this machine saves lives) and he has been snarfing the steady stream of smoothies. Have been keeping track of his piss diapers and making sure they are happening. Man I can’t imagine this going on for more than a week or two. You must have been a mess through that. This is the first time that he has ever been pretty darn sick so that only adds to my anxiety level rn.
Not exactly fun. This is him pretty much exactly 1.5 hours after reading 104+. Cake pop, headphones, and stryder. Just dominating life other than the fever that would put most all of us grown men in the ER.
first morning we dropped our guy off sucked so much for me but he’s been doing great with it. Prepare for him to be sick
We’re on month 2 of daycare and it’s been great. While he has gotten sick once and may not be held as often as he would at home, it has allowed our days to be more structured than before and he comes home tired which makes his night sleeping better.
A great daycare is awesome for everyone. My youngest is excited every morning to “go to school”. He is always ready to be the first one out the door. the hardest parts about daycare, for me, are drop off times, pick up times, and the early morning scramble to get everyone’s lunch packed.
When we get to his door my youngest forgets I exist. Immediately runs in and doesn’t even look back to say bye. My oldest complains in the morning then when I pick him up asks to stay later/stop picking him up so early.
We hit a point with our daughter where she was having a very tough time with drop-off when she was like 2.5 years old. Someone came up with the idea of saying goodbye to her in the class and then also outside the window. So, now her room is like half way around the school but every time at drop off we walk to her window and wave good bye/give air high fives and then she runs off to her friends. I don't know why that solution worked, but it sure as fuck did.
same thing happened with us and our oldest, and saying goodbye inside and then from the window worked for us too.
My wife has forgotten to go to the window 2 or 3 times and it basically ruined her work day thinking about leaving her hanging at the window. I take some pride in never forgetting when I've dropped off.
I should clarify something here... I don't find the actual dropping off and picking up of the kid to be difficult, it's the timing of it all to me. Our daycare doesn't allow drop-off until 8:30 and pickup is before 4. On a normal day I start work before 8, and get off work at 4:30. So for me, getting to work late and leaving early drives me apeshit.
Put Levi down at 7, set an alarm for every 3 hours. Literally went into his room, shook him and said Levi medicine, he opened his mouth without opening his eyes, took medicine and was back sleeping before I got out of room. Was able to keep his temp under 100 all night. Hopefully his spike yesterday afternoon was him finally turning the corner. He does have a lot more energy today and asked for cheerios after not wanting solid food, other than fruit, since late Thursday.
thats awesome man. its crazy how kids can power through stuff like this. in early Dec we all 4 of us caught Covid for the first time. My wife and I were dead on the couch for days, both of my kids had fevers but were bouncing off the walls. We just laid on the sofa in the fetal position while our kids did whatever they wanted.
Wife goes back to work tomorrow. She's having a rough time with it. My mom will be watching our son during the day, so we're not concerned about how well he'll be taken care of. She's just going to be an emotional wreck leaving her baby for more than like an hour for the first time in 8 weeks. I plan on sending her flowers at work to try to lift her spirits. I'm not sure what else I can do for her though.
Yeah, those windows suck. We can drop off after 7:30am and pick up by 5:30pm. We’re usually scrambling for 5:30 still.
Not much tbh. Just try to reinforce that having to work doesn’t make her a bad mom. Seems like every mom struggles with that.
My advice is to listen and try to bring words of comfort. Providing “solutions” isn’t going to work. Just be there and hold space for her when she is ready to vent about it.
Our preschool has a big “goodbye window” with a built it perch in the classroom, so the kids who are having trouble can wave through it to parents after they leave the room and head to the exit. It’s also cool for peeking in for a minute to watch mine play in his natural environment without knowing I’m there yet at pickup
I loved it when I was able to sneak in and watch little man playing at daycare without him seeing me.
Any stroller recommendations? We got a hand me down Bob stroller but it needs new fabric (like $200) so we are looking at some other options Anyone got Consumer Reports reviews on strollers?
I think ours is a baby jogger and even if you don’t run I recommend a jogger stroller since they are easier to navigate and typically fold up very easily. Ours has been to Disney very many times and still is in great shape.
Fuck me, just have to rant but my parents are shit people. Like my father is the absolute worst grandfather to our son. They came to visit here and have spent no amount of time with our son. Just my 2 nephews. They play with them, feed them everything because they see them all the time but nothing with our son. I called them out on it at Christmas and they’re still the same way. I don’t care because I’ve always known that theyre shit people and had to raise myself but it’s just glaringly obvious now with our son
not just him, when my first started daycare I felt like I was sick for 3 months straight. my wife is a teacher, and I guess immune to all of those germs already so she was mostly fine.
Oh yea but like your wife I’m a vice principal and my wife teaches 1st grade so we both live in cold and sickness
I have to believe that is better than average for starting a kid in daycare during cold & flu season.
It’s always a 3-4 week cycle here. Always starts with one of the kids, then 2-3 days later to the next kid, then my wife, then me. By the time I’m over it, two weeks have passed, we are healthy for about a week, and then the whole shitshow starts again. It’s been this way for 2 years now
That’s awful. I’m sorry you have to experience that. my coworkers parents are immigrants and are from a really rough part of the world. He has two kids, both under 4. His mom completely ignores the oldest of his two kids now. He noticed it a few times over the holidays and he finally asked her about it. She coldly told him that she doesn’t like his oldest.
That’s terrible. We just had to leave a restaurant because our 2 yr old threw a fit. My mom actually came with us so I could drive us home in their car. It’s really my dad that’s the huge issue. He’s all about my 2 nephews but doesn’t even acknowledge our son.
totally jinxed myself. woke up in the middle of the night with crazy stomach pain. Was on and off the shitter from 3am - 10am. fucking kids and their Petri dishes (schools/daycares)
Hank jr just scored the game winning goal in sudden death overtime to win the league championship. Core memory formed.
Nephew’s (wife’s sister’s kid) birthday party tomorrow. I was just informed that the party is at Chuck E Cheese at……9am. When I asked how that’s possible when they aren’t open then, “they don’t want to deal with the riffraff, so they rented it out. Oh, and I need to help setup, so we need to leave at 7:45”. This whole thing is absurd, and we’ll be taking two cars.
Fucking hell. Parties at places like this are really hard on me. I push through it so my kids can experience it and be with their friends. the comedown after the party is awful . Overstimulation station