Tag: sickness

  • Cold and Flu Season: A Parent’s Survival Guide

    Get Pregnant Fast Children are like little petri dishes, always exploring the world by licking toys and touching everything in sight. They often forget to wash their hands, and let’s not even talk about bathroom habits. If you’ve got kids, you already know: they’re the messiest little creatures you could ever live with. So, when…

  • The Case of the Man Cold: A Tale of Sickness and Sympathy

    Get Pregnant Fast For the past few weeks, I’ve been battling a relentless illness. My throat felt like sandpaper, my nose was more congested than a blocked drain, and my sinuses were thumping like a bad drum solo. To top it off, I’ve been coughing up some rather unpleasant green stuff (sorry about that visual).…

  • Surviving the Contagion Cycle

    Get Pregnant Fast Updated: Aug. 3, 2016 Originally Published: Nov. 12, 2012 Not long ago, I found myself knee-deep in laundry, plucking chunks of half-digested food from my child’s soiled clothes—remnants of last night’s unfortunate bout of vomiting. As I scraped off the curdled egg bits, I couldn’t help but think: What on earth? Seriously,…

  • 25 Familiar Phrases We’ve All Uttered When Our Kids Fall Ill

    Get Pregnant Fast As I hurried down the stairs, hastily putting on an earring while mentally preparing for the evening with our babysitter, I caught sight of my 3-year-old daughter, Lily, curled up quietly on the couch. Normally, she would be bouncing off the walls with excitement for her favorite babysitter’s arrival, but her flushed…

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