Coughy With a 100% Chance of Ill
Liza’s been sick the last several days, congested like Hartsfield-Jackson Airport at Christmastime. She can’t breathe, and when we put her in her crib, she chokes, coughs, and wakes up. The only way we’ve gotten her to sleep for extended periods of time is by sitting in the recliner in her room and letting her lie on us. Needless to say, it’s hard to get a lot of sleep when she’s writhing on you.
That’s where we’ve been over the weekend. Expect normal posting to resume when we’ve had more sleep.
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Comment by jeanetta
oooh you just brough back memories. i would slather mine with vicks vapor rub, fill up a vaporiser and spend a week in the lazy boy.
Posted on December 4, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Comment by Jessica
I hope Liza gets better soon! For everyone’s sake.
Posted on December 5, 2007 at 6:11 am
Comment by duchess
Flashbacks here, too. Luckily, Z had his own recliner, so we would let him sleep in that on his own. But I would pop up every 30 minutes to make sure the recliner was okay, so no rest.
Posted on December 5, 2007 at 10:33 am
Comment by Jeff
Vicks on feet.
It’s supposed to be an urban legend, and I don’t know any scientific explanation for why it works - but it does.
Or did for us anyway. Vicks says their product is safe for infants over 6 months, so no worries there.
I don’t know if it would deal with the worst part of the cold - but when Ivy was coughing in her sleep and waking up it would help her get to sleep without coughing, and keep her from doing it most of the night, toned down at least to where she didn’t wake herself up.
YMMV, but it worked great for us.
Posted on December 5, 2007 at 11:26 am
Comment by Stephen
Huh. We’ve been using Vicks on her chest and back, with mixed results. We’ll have to try the feet next time.
Thankfully, last night she was much better.
Posted on December 5, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Comment by Limax
Hurgh… man, that’s rough. Here’s hoping that Liza gets better soon and that all of you get back to a normal sleeping schedule.
Posted on December 5, 2007 at 3:16 pm