Baby colds . . . much worse than you think!

I remember waaaay back when I didn’t have a kid, I would hear seemingly frazzled moms moaning and complaining about their babies having runny noses and big, congested coughs and think that they were just ridiculous! After all, there are MUCH worse things in the world than your silly baby having a cold!

Well, as with MANY other experiences, having my own baby with a cold, I am here to say: It is much, much worse than I ever imagined! Nobody tells you that it’s not just a runny nose . . . it’s a poor, horribly distraught baby who has NO idea what is happening to his body and is just plain miserable! He doesn’t eat, sleep, play, poop, or breathe right anymore! He is absolutely beside himself because he feels so lousy. And as a mom, what are you to do? It’s a cold - there’s virtually nothing you CAN do except let it run it’s course.

It’s true - there are still many ways that things could be much worse - I don’t deny that. But man, a sick baby is a much more difficult thing than I ever imagined. So, moms: I stand corrected. Sorry I judged you as whiny. I was wrong.

This is an outtake from Quin’s 3 month session, but I thought it would be an appropriate picture to accompany this post because this is, more or less, the look I’ve been given for the past 24 hours straight.