Защита ребенка в сезон болезней: почему мамы правы

People love to remind moms that we’re being “overprotective” during sick season when we don’t do playdates, visits, or gatherings. They like to say “oh we’re not sick” or “but that’s my grandchild?” … But let me remind you of something.

It’s easy to call me overprotective when you’re not the one who has to watch an infant struggle to breathe and pick up the phone to call 911 over a “simple virus.”

You are not the one watching each and every single breath being on high alert ALL night full of adrenaline and panicking because you know

the coughing fits just happen out of nowhere.

You are not the one having to focus each and every single day on calming your nervous system after worrying about your sick infant.

They call it being “overprotective” but I call it being a mom. Because the same people rolling their eyes aren’t the ones staying up all night with sick kids at the hospital waiting for a doctor to walk into their room.

I’m tired of being in the waiting rooms of doctors and hospitals. I’m tired of viruses going one by one through the entire household making us sick for two months just to get another virus.

Yes, sick season sucks. Yes, we go distant during sick season. Yes I get lonely from the lack of adult socialization…. but at the end of the day I just want what’s best for me and my little family, not your wants and needs being satisfied.

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