Plastic Bubble

Sweet little Miss Fussy Pants has a cold. Her cough sounds like it should be coming out of a grown man it sounds so bad. She also has green goop coming out of her eyes. Poor thing. You can tell she feels terrible. She cries even more now, if that's possible. She was completely out of the swing (that's the only thing she would sleep in for months) sleeping ever so contently in her bassinet but those days are gone. At least for now. She's back in the swing so she can sleep at an elevated position. I refuse to turn it on however, so she doesn't get used to that constant motion again. She just sits there in her little swing all swaddled up completely stationary. Sometimes after I put her in it I swear she looks at me and says, 'are you going to turn the thing on or what?' I think Craig heard her say it last night too. He caved and turned it on for her. Yesterday we were visiting with a dear friend and she asked Piper what Presley likes to do. Piper's reply, "she likes to cry." Especially now. With that manly cough and green eye goop. I'm trying to think back as to how she could've gotten sick. Maggie had a cough recently and I caught her putting her sippy cup in Presley's mouth (no one can fault her for wanting to share!). It was one of those slow motion moments like.. is she really going to do it.. is she really going to put her sippy cup in her mouth.. surely not.. yep, she did it. But I have learned that unless you're willing to put your child in a bubble (which I have strongly considered), it's impossible to keep them from germs. Either the germs will find them or they will find the germs. Piper was especially good at finding germs. When Piper was a 'crawler' we were at the airport and she pulled a piece of gum from under a seat and started chewing it. I had to fish it out of her mouth. GAG. On the same trip I caught her teething on the doorstop in our condo. We were in Mexico of all places. I flipped. I'm a bit of a germ freak but I think that would make even a 'normal' mom flip out. I've tried to be especially cautious with Presley since she was in the NICU for ten days after she was born. When we got her home from the hospital we literally kept her quarantined in our room for six weeks. You could not visit her unless you had on a face mask. I'm thinking about going back to the face mask requirement. This time maybe I'll add rubber gloves too. Or maybe I'll look into that plastic bubble again.