Young Workin' Mommies: August 2012

Thursday, August 16, 2012

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Monday, August 13, 2012

The Adventures of the Traveling Mommie-

Balancing motherhood and working is not always an easy job! This week I have training for work in ORLANDO! The thought of leaving my 5month old for a week didn't not sit well with me; let alone the almost impossible task of leaving enough milk for an entire week. So Dreux is currently on her first business trip with Mommie! Sunday night Dreux, my aunt and I hopped on a plane and headed to Florida. My company has been pretty accommodating when it comes to bringing her along. I got out of rooming with another trainee so that my aunt and daughter could accompany me at no additional cost.

It was such a load off knowing that I didn't have to find a sitter for the entire week. However once I got to Florida I ran into a few others problems...
Being that Dreux is still a 90% exclusively breast-fed baby (with the occasion of a bowl of oatmeal every now and then) I had to bring the frozen bags I haD stored. Traveling with about 8bags of breast milk wasn't the hard part, it was finding a cold place to store them all once we arrived at the hotel! After a few trips to ice machine and three huge zip lock bags later, my aunt had created ice packs n stuffed the frozen storage bags in them! 12hours later and they are still frozen!!

And although I can't enjoy an hour lunch like everyone else because I'm rushing back to the room to pump and/or feed on my break, my 20min lunch is well worth having her here with me!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

HAND, FOOT, AND MOUTH DISEASE!!!

Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease

Who knew it was such a thing! Recently Dreux “found her feet”. And as I watched her suck on her precious little toes my mind began to wander… Should I let her do this? I told my mother that Dreux has a large fascination with her feet and her response was “wash her feet so she doesn’t get Foot in Mouth Disease”. I thought this was another one of my mother’s pharmaceutical scare tactics and I blew it off. Until this morning, the thought of my child having any disease scares me. So I Googled it. And low and behold, there is such a thing and it is prominent in children under the age of 5, specifically in infants. It’s a viral infection that can easily be prevented through sanitary methods. For example, wash the hands and feet of infants who are prone to putting those little toes in their mouths. Through it is contagious, there isn’t much treatment for it and doctors would suggest you let the virus “run its course”. The disease can be passed from child to child through contact with saliva, mucus, or fecal matter of an infected person.

I noticed yesterday when I picked Dreux up from daycare, that the socks I sent her to school in were no longer on her feet. For me, I’m going to make sure I stress the importance of washing hands, surfaces, and toys at her daycare and KEEPING HER SOCKS ON; although Dreux has a tendency to kick them off and lose them –hence the lime green sock that we never did find.

Mommies, Daddies, and caregivers please take head to this. It is real! While I thought GiGi, my mother whom doesn’t want to be referred by as “Grandma”, was being overly dramatic, I’m a bit concerned about this now. Call me an overprotected mom, I don’t care. But my daughter won’t get “Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease”. As common as it may be, I think we’ll pass on this one!

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