remember the days when you were a kid and got a head cold or a stomach bug? your mom would wait on you hand and foot to make sure you had every comfort in the world....the tv was set to whatever you wanted to watch...you had a warm or cool compress for your head...the house quiet so you get could get the rest you needed to get well....those were the days! but not anymore!
unless you have a personal maid, which i do not, being sick as a mommy is just like any other day except you feel like you are walking through mud and you have a cloud over your eyes and a vice grip around your head. nothing like trying to pick up your two year old to go in the high chair and suddenly overnight he has doubled his body weight. but the show must go on! diapers must still be changed (but you may be taking the day off from smelling the dirty ones), kiddos still need to be fed three good meals a day, messes still have to be cleaned up, most likely still need to do a load of laundry. oh, to have a personal maid. frankly, i have an imaginary maid named valerie but she never does anything. just makes me feel better to think that maybe someday she will come to fruition.
and what if the kiddos are sick too?? they desire the came comforts and babying that you do when you're sick. they are more cuddly, more cranky, need more attention than when they are well! i think the best thing to do when everybody is sick is just be sick together. dont worry about the chores! just worry about what must absolutely be done right now. the mess can wait. the laundry can wait. just take care of those sick babies! as long as they are fed and have clean diapers on then they are good to go. the toys and laundry can wait til mommy feels better.
do some calm activities instead of playing outside or running errands. watch movies, read books, take naps! there is nothing like curling up on the couch with some blankets and pillows with your babies and watching buzz, woody, jesse, bullseye, slink, and rex. so even though everybody is sick you can still enjoy each other and still have those joys of mommyhood.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
down and dirty...diapers
so i checked my babycenter update this morning and off to the side, almost like an "in case you didnt already know..." there was a little box that stated, "its a fact: in your baby's first year, he/she will soak and soil his/her way through nearly 3,000 diapers." and i thought, how kind of them! like us mommies dont already feel ALL we do is change diapers. now we have this friendly reminder of just how many we actually change! and lest we not forget, that's just ONE baby.
what if you have two babies in diapers? if your kids are two years apart you are already down approx 6,000 diapers by the time you have your second baby. and with a second baby of course its twice as many diapers. by the time the new baby is six months old you've already hit your 3,000 mark for the year. so if i have a two and half year old and a six month old, i have changed 9,000 diapers in the past two and half years. whew!
lets do some math, shall we? 3,000 diapers a year for one baby comes to approx 250 diapers a month....57 diapers a week....8 diapers a day.....and if your baby sleeps 8 hours a night...we are changing diapers at least every two hours...and thats just one of our babies.
these are not all nice and easy wet diapers. they're stinky, poopy, muddy, exploding diarrhea, diaper rash causing diapers. one of the worse ways to start off a day is getting a child out of bed only to find that their diaper has not done its over-night job in containing a child's over-night mess. all over the baby, all over their clothes, all over their bed....and all this before your morning coffee. you put baby to bed with a nice clean, fresh diaper and somehow through the night its not so much anymore. and of course some of this can be taken care of by your choice of diaper brand....
we have luvs, pampers, huggies, whitecloud, parentschoice, seventh generation, cloth, tendercare, up&up.... and unfortunately, its all through trial and error. as for myself, i've never used anything but pampers on my newborns. they just seem to be better against their skin better at containing a newborn runny mess. then we graduate normally to luvs or huggies. huggies just seem to fit and conture to their bodies better as they are starting to be more active and mobile. cloth diapers...i applaud any mommy using them.
and we cant forget about wipes!!! they in themselves are a lesson of trial and error. i, to this day, do not understand why a compay would produces a product to be used on such a sensitive area that is literally like wet sandpaper or a wet paper towel. hello! soft, moist these should be a no-brainer. i like the walmart brand sensitive skin wipes. so far they have worked the best for us. with kids who indeed have very sensitive skin they are wonderful. and of course they are great for cleaning up any sort of baby mess you can think of.
but thank goodness we have so much to choose from, so many resources at our disposal, so many products that are available for us to decide what is best for our precious little one's little tushy. im glad that i am here even in those not so fun moments of changing nasty diapers for and with my babies because what would life be without these little joys of mommyhood.
what if you have two babies in diapers? if your kids are two years apart you are already down approx 6,000 diapers by the time you have your second baby. and with a second baby of course its twice as many diapers. by the time the new baby is six months old you've already hit your 3,000 mark for the year. so if i have a two and half year old and a six month old, i have changed 9,000 diapers in the past two and half years. whew!
lets do some math, shall we? 3,000 diapers a year for one baby comes to approx 250 diapers a month....57 diapers a week....8 diapers a day.....and if your baby sleeps 8 hours a night...we are changing diapers at least every two hours...and thats just one of our babies.
these are not all nice and easy wet diapers. they're stinky, poopy, muddy, exploding diarrhea, diaper rash causing diapers. one of the worse ways to start off a day is getting a child out of bed only to find that their diaper has not done its over-night job in containing a child's over-night mess. all over the baby, all over their clothes, all over their bed....and all this before your morning coffee. you put baby to bed with a nice clean, fresh diaper and somehow through the night its not so much anymore. and of course some of this can be taken care of by your choice of diaper brand....
we have luvs, pampers, huggies, whitecloud, parentschoice, seventh generation, cloth, tendercare, up&up.... and unfortunately, its all through trial and error. as for myself, i've never used anything but pampers on my newborns. they just seem to be better against their skin better at containing a newborn runny mess. then we graduate normally to luvs or huggies. huggies just seem to fit and conture to their bodies better as they are starting to be more active and mobile. cloth diapers...i applaud any mommy using them.
and we cant forget about wipes!!! they in themselves are a lesson of trial and error. i, to this day, do not understand why a compay would produces a product to be used on such a sensitive area that is literally like wet sandpaper or a wet paper towel. hello! soft, moist these should be a no-brainer. i like the walmart brand sensitive skin wipes. so far they have worked the best for us. with kids who indeed have very sensitive skin they are wonderful. and of course they are great for cleaning up any sort of baby mess you can think of.
but thank goodness we have so much to choose from, so many resources at our disposal, so many products that are available for us to decide what is best for our precious little one's little tushy. im glad that i am here even in those not so fun moments of changing nasty diapers for and with my babies because what would life be without these little joys of mommyhood.
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