On things beyond my control

The baby that I have plastered all over my blog lately was briefly hospitalized today… its ok, he is fine now, thank God…

He has actually been sick for a while, since september it seems, because my kindergartner comes home every week with foreign germs that he and his classmates generously share amongst themselves…

Early this morning I noticed that his chest was moving very rapidly, I woke up my husband and informed him of the situation, soliciting his opinions… he said “nothing to be worried about, just put him back to sleep!” or something like that…

5 hours later when we were talking to the nurse in emergency, I was asked “why I waited this long to bring him in?”... I, of course, rolled my eyes at the brave mousehunter and told him to pretend his kids were one of his precious “servers” from now on!

Now, we were in the hospital for about 3 hours only! They took him in right away, put him on the ventilator, got an x-tray and sent him home with a puffer! He was in good spirits by the afternoon (thank God).

My eldest, had pneumonia once… while I was on hospital bedrest, he picked up the infection while visiting me in the hospital, we believe… and now suffers from flu-induced asthma and also has puffers, so in true middle child spirit, my little middle child inquired about his puffer, and why he didn’t have one!

Lessons learnt… do not solicit advice from your spouse on baby health and safety matters, just trust your instincts!! And the middle child will always be the one that is left out!

Thoughts from Suroor

Aw, my poor baby! And oh! the poor middle child! And ah! you bad boy Mousehunter

Love to the bears and lost of duas!

Thoughts from Mona

alhamdolillah, that the baby’s fine now. health and happiness for them, always.

Thoughts from Cakes

poor little feller. so glad he’s on the mend. 

No, husbands cannot be trusted when sleep is on the line! LOL! My husband once told me the cut on the back of my leg wasn’t that bad and we should just go to bed.  (the next morning it got 17 stitches.)

Thoughts from crunchy carpets

Yikes…Adam had pneumonia at about the same age…had been sick for ages…we figured flu!
One morning he was looking really logey and I had to go to work….
Dh was worried and called the doc and the doc squeezed him in…next minute they were sprinting for xrays and a pediatric doc and being handed the puffer!

I almost quit my job right there.
I was glad that DH was on the ball!

Poor we man…I hope he feels better soon.

It is so scary to see them all quiet and not jumping around like freaks!

Thoughts from Maliha

Salamaat,
Poor baby, I hope he feels better soon. I was a smack middle child too, i feel your baby’s pain :(

Thoughts from Surviving

Salaam,

Good to hear the baby is doing better.  My husband is actually opposite, he wants to take them to the hospital for everything!  My kindergartener brings home lots of stuff too.  My middle one is the one that is always sick because of it.  He then shares it all with me and sometimes the baby.  I hope the baby continues to get better.  Having a sick child can be difficult.  I hope you get plenty of rest so you don’t get sick.

Thoughts from shaz

thanks mona and suroor.

cakes… you are soooo right! those men and their sleep! I usually get less sleep than him, yet every morning he acts like he “deserves” to have extra sleep!

wow crunchy, good for hubs! It was scary to see them like that, no matter how much ‘jumping around like little freaks’ may annoy us, I know we all prefer it to the non-responsive versions!

Maliha, salaams, this morning I was hugging the baby and the middle child was on the other side the baby drinking his milk… then the eldest came on my free side to hug me… so obviously guess who was not being hugged!!!! sorry… I appologise for your parents… these things clearly cannot be helped!

Thoughts from shaz

Surviving, we were commenting at the same time!

salaams, I find it very hard to decide when to actually take them to the hospital and when to not… the wait and all of that, and also when you do take them and its not serious, the hospital staff make you feel stupid… its really a fine line!

I think my husband just wanted to sleep more than anything, as cakes pointed out… they do love their sleep!

Thoughts from Mona UmIbrahim

Wow that’s scary. Alhamdulillah he’s doing better.

Thoughts from shaz

yes, alhamdulillah. It’s funny how much we can tolerate from kids if we know they are sick!

Thoughts from koonj

poor wittle bacha. so glad he’s better. i’m like you – i have to do much of the observing, evaluating, monitoring etc – ...

Thoughts from shaz

koonj… yes, it is hard work and a lot of pressure to do the monitoring!! my husband’s school of thought is “ah, you’re too paranoid… they are fine!” argh!