So it’s here again, rearing its ugliness. That’s right it is picking on my boy, and I want to kick its little carcass to the other side of Canada. Now this in not some sap story of me and my little man, I leave those ones for MY Blog @ All For My Boy, but here on L.O.D my stories are about the “situations” and now it is the ugly, ugly cold that has grasped my little guy by his nose, and is dragging him under.
Now, I wouldn’t even begin to think I am the only one who hates these, and I am only ten months in to fatherhood. But it sucks. There is nothing fun about watching those little eyes look at you, like they’re saying “Daddy please fix it” or “Please make it stop, My snot doesn’t taste good” and all we can really do is sit and wait. ~ Wait for it to blow over, Wait for it to run its course, and wait for it to find a new host. However the days, between now and then feel like an eternity.
When a parent finds themselves with a child in an age bracket of two and under, it seems to be that for most things our options are practically limited to nothing. Not that I am saying drugging your child at such a tender age would be right, it is just difficult to sit back and watch the pain and struggle they go through. I just wish there was some other way!
So as we sit up late at night with a baby who coughs himself (or Herself) awake, and needs just a little extra cuddling, we ponder what more we can have done. We weigh our options, we gathered our facts and we put anything we could to the test, and yet we still sit a wait for The Nasty to move on to someone else, preferably not in our house, and definitely not me, I fear a sick man, is worse than a sick child, and wouldn’t want my wife to have to do it twice.
I have been using some homeopathic medicine, it’s helped but not to the degree I would have hoped, but it eases the drip, and mutes the cough. We even pulled out the trusty Nose vacuum to clear his nose, and put the Best dehumidifier we could find online, in nursery AND still the nasty hangs around, bouncing off the inside of my boy.
So I ask, after doing all the research that I could find time to do, what other ways, have you found in your caves, for battling off the Nasty. I am out of hope, and would love some other Dad perspectives.