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!