My child manipulated me
My 22 month old was fully crib trained and slept 12-13 hours a night in his crib. This week he got really sick with a high temp and runny nose and coughing to the point of gagging. He woke up every 10 mins crying and choking so I decided to put him in my bed for the night. Well 2 more nights pass and I finally feel comfortable to put him back in his bed. The nights before he would spike high temps at night so I would check on him and get his temp and give him meds. But now I tried to put him back in his crib and I told him all day he can’t sleep with mama anymore. Well I’m bathing and watching him on the monitor and he literally cried and coughed so hard he gagged and threw up everywhere. The crib sheet, the crib, the mesh liner, and even the mattress protector and even worse, our carpet. So needless to say I had to rebathe him, change him, clean all of his dirty sheets and bed and carpet and I’m afraid to put him back in his crib because I feel like In 10 mins I’ll be cleaning him up again. What am I supposed to do here? He’s laying in my bed now with a smile on his face and he didn’t even realize that he gagged himself and threw up. He literally just got one over on me because I’m exhausted and my husband is away for work and I don’t have it in me to clean puke up all night. I know giving into him isn’t going to help either. What would you do? I don’t want to leave him in a crib full of puke but I can’t clean him up over and over again. I’m 35 weeks pregnant and literally dead on the inside from lack of sleep. I need help!
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