Life with two children: Gideon updates

[andrewducker]

Following yesterday's illness, I was vaguely hoping that he would stay asleep through the night. Alas:

12:05
"I need a wee"
Took him to the toilet.
"Daddy, my tummy hurts"
Gave him some medicine
"Do you want to be in pyjamas or just straight back to bed?"
"Back to bed"
And then he closed his eyes.

12:20
Thundering footsteps "Daddy, I feel sick"
Told him to go to the toilet. Kept him company, got him a bucket.
He wasn't sick.
Persuaded him to take the bucket to bed.
Sat on the floor next to his bed until he closed his eyes.

12:35
More thundering steps
"Daddy, my arm and leg hurt"
By the time I'd found him medicine he was asleep again.
But woke up again and let me give him some Calpol.

03:30
"I'm hungry" (not surprising as he didn't eat yesterday)
We agreed on cream cheese crackers.
He ate ⅘ of the cracker and drank some juice and passed out again.

06:30
"I checked the light coming under the curtain and it's morning time"
I told him to go play games on the Switch downstairs.
Fifteen minutes later I could still hear him wandering about and I hadn't heard any game noises.
Went to check on him and he told him that he'd found various points around the house where the floor isn't flat.
Got him settled with the Switch, and then went back to bed and stared vacantly at my phone for an hour, before getting up to face the day.

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Well, that's life. But, luckily, it's just a moment in life.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. Compared to the sleep debt when we were cosleeping it's not bad at all.

[cmcmck]

I love it that you take your turn. :o)

[andrewducker]

For whatever reason, I wake up a lot easier than Jane. So when a small child arrives in the middle of the night I tend to be the one who deals with it. And they know that, so they tend to come straight over and tap me if I'm not already awake.

[gingicat]

This sounds a whole lot like COVID.

[andrewducker]

Pretty sure we all had that in January.

Or possibly October.

We've certainly had about 6 different illnesses over the winter.

[gingicat]

I would recommend calling his doctor in the morning. I worry particularly about COVID because I've been spending time with a friend who's an epidemiologist.

[andrewducker]

The doctor isn't to do anything about Covid in a child who is much better this morning and demanding I help him beat game bosses.

The list of people that take it seriously in is quite restrictive https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/covid-19/treatments-for-covid-19/

[mtbc]

I'm glad that he has the gift of being able to largely sleep through this stuff, my daughter can too.

I've slept on bathroom floors feeling ill but only after having had far too much to drink the night before.

[mtbc]

I should of course have added that sleeping all the way through would be even better! His getting at least chunks of sleep is something but I also hope you manage to get to sleep after he gets back to sleep each time.

[wenchpixie]

At least it's not a work day..?

I hope the worst of it's passed for the house.

[andrewducker]

I think so! Thank you!

(And yes, I would have had to take a day off, as my laptop is in the office)