My Little Leopard Baby

After a small upper-respiratory-like-bug followed by four days of a high fever, April broke out in a rash of leopard spots yesterday.

A classic case of Roseola, which pretty much all kids get, but a little unsettling when you see your kid looking like a lace checkerboard of red spots.  Oh my gosh, my daughter has leprosy!  RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

But the mystery illness was solved as the fever broke into the rash, and now she is just a fussy baby sans 102 degree fever needing a lot of sleep.

I know this is really awful because no one likes seeing their kids sick, but is it wrong of me to take a just a little bit of relief in the fact that my baby is getting over an illness and is, therefore, snoozing peacefully more than usual?

It sucks when your children are sick, but once you know they are going to survive, it can be kind of like a little break.  Especially when your toddler is sick and wants to nap.  Now that’s one of those moments where I feel like screaming “Alleluia!” to the virus gods in a nanosecond of pure relief.  Like, holy crap, my kid actually WANTS to sleep!  What on earth did I do to deserve this unusual pleasure?

I mean, of course I don’t like when my kids are sick… but I find that it’s much easier to handle when I can find a bit of positivity in my kid’s misery.

Ah, now if only Julie was in a napping mood, too.

What would I do with myself?

Heh, sleep.  Duh.

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One Response to “My Little Leopard Baby”

  1. Jessica Says:
    March 21st, 2009 at 6:13 am

    yay! sleep! when E started recovering from the crud, she finally started sleeping better…she went from getting up every hour for the past 5-6 months, to getting up only twice. *sigh* i don’t want my kid to be sick either, but if that’s the price of sleep…..