December 19th...
For the past 2 months Averi has been battling this skin infection on her head, and in the beginning it really hurt her. Bad. I had no way of knowing just how bad it hurt of course, but now that Cael is dealing with it too...I have some sort of idea what she was going through. She had to cope in a million little ways to stay comfortable everyday, and one of those ways was not drinking out of a sippy cup by herself. I think it just hurt too bad to tilt her head back, so she didn't. Instead I would hold her and lay her in my arms so she could drink it that way. I didn't mind at all, I would have walked through fire if it would have made her head stop hurting her. That is, of course, until her head stopped hurting and she still thought it would just make life a whole lot simpler if I would go ahead and hold her cups for her everyday. Talk about a pain in the butt! I would have just walked away and made her drink it by herself, or not at all...but she was antibiotics that had to be poured into her milk for weeks. I had no choice but to take a 15 minute break from everything else three or four times a day while she slowly sipped away. Finally, she doesn't need those certain antibiotics anymore so I let her come to the slow realization of "Oh...if momma's going to walk away, I guess I have to hold this myself" and today she finally gave up the charade once and for all! It's amazing what simple pleasures we find on a day to day basis...today mine was watching my daughter drink a cup of milk all by herself!
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