Warning: This is Gross
I seriously debated whether or not I should post this. Â This is gross. Â Will my readers be turned off? Â Will I loose subscribers?
The tag line for Simply Rebekah is “Frugal, Green & Life in Between.” Â Honey, this post is 100% about Life in Between right now! Â You’ve been warned.
Last night as I got ready to go to bed, I checked in on sleeping Grace. Â As soon as I opened the door I smelled it.
It was sour.
It was gross.
It was vomit all over her sheets.
And she was sleeping in it.
About two hours earlier she woke up crying. Â It only lasted for a minute, two at the most. Â I didn’t even go upstairs to check on her. Â She fell back asleep and all was good. Â At least that is what I thought until I discovered her sleeping in barf two hours later.
Nate was already in bed, so I went into our room and woke him up.  We both braced ourselves for the awfulness that was to come as we woke up Grace.  Surprisingly she didn’t cry when we woke up her.  We carried her into the bathroom and started the processes of taking off her sleep sack and PJs.
It was so so so so SO GROSS!  The sleeves of her pajamas were soaked through with vomit.  The sleep sack was a mess.  Grace had chunks in her hair and dried barf stuck to her cheek.  We filled up the bathroom sink and plopped her in it for a quick bath.
Grace wasn’t acting sick at all. Â As a matter of fact she was smiling until we put her in the sink. Â After getting the sheets changed and fresh jammies on Grace, she fell back asleep with out any problems.
However, I had a much harder time falling asleep. Â I kept seeing the throw up and smelling it. Â It was like I was having flash backs.
I was dreading when this day would come. Dealing with baby & toddler poop is NOT the same as dealing with barf. This is a whole different animal.
This morning when Grace woke up, I was a little scared to see if the bed was still clean.  Praise God, it was!  BUT…
About 30 minutes later Grace had diarrhea that got all over.
*sigh*
Grace is still acting fine, but I’m pretty traumatized.
Fast forward 7 hours.
I threw up.
Heaven help me.
I was laying on the couch, knowing that I wasn’t feeling well.  Grace was watching a video and was practically in my lap.  After I finished throwing up in the bucket I was a little concerned about what Grace thought of all of that.  She slid off the couch, smiled at me, said hi and then pretended to spit in the bucket.
Apparently she wasn’t traumatized.
Thankfully, we are all feeling much better as I type this. Â Please pray that we stay that way!
PS.  You can all thank me that I don’t have any pictures along with this post.  😉  See!  I love you after all!
Oh, I’ve experienced that at least twice. It IS so gross. My most recent run-in with the surprise vomit was nearly the same scene as what you got. My 2 yr. old daughter had been in bed a couple hours and she woke up and cried for a minute so I didn’t think anything of it, because it’s not that uncommon for her. Then when I went to check on her before I went to bed and the second I cracked the door I KNEW. It’s so disturbing not knowing what you’re going to see when you turn the light on. It was gross, and unfortunately that wasn’t the end of the illness for her that night, it was just the beginning…
Glad you’re all feeling better.
Laura, you DO know what I went through! Grace also cries in bed from time to time. Trust me though, I’m going to be a lot more concerned the next time I hear her crying in bed!!!
I can personally identify with this story. Being a parent is difficult but you sure learn a lot.
Amen to that, Josiah!! Sometime I’ve learned much more than I’ve wanted to!
Ever since our two stomach flus a month apart I always open the door and smell first. So i know what I’m getting into. It’s sad, I know, but I really hate puke, even after puking for 16 mos (8 mos for each kid). Ugh.
Hopefully the yuk is gone now, for all of us!
Beth, was that morning sickness you were dealing with?? I can’t imagine 8 months of morning sickness. I think that would make me have an extra hatred for puke too!
Yep. Almost the entire time for both kids, at least once a day. No more kids for me 🙂
Wow! God bless you, Beth!
Oh, for heaven’s sake, I must have too many kids or something. 😉 I totally expected something grosser than this. Ha! Seriously, though, I am so glad to hear you are all feeling better. Tummy issues are so miserable. (Kids do seem to handle them much better than we grown-ups, though!)
Oh brother, Jessie… Next time I’ll be sure to give you all the little details about what Grace ate before she puked, exactly how it smelled and I’ll even throw in some pictures for you so it meets your grossness standards! LOL
Oh honey, I would have been a mess! I can’t even handle my dog when she’s sick! Here’s something to make you laugh. My maman cannot handle throw up. And one of us 4 kids almost always got sick when my daddy was at the fire station. So one time my brother got sick all over the car and my mom basically got us out and then shut it up tight to have my daddy deal with the next morning. Poor guy!
Two Christmaseso ago I was the only one who didn’t get the flu which meant i was taking care of my infant niece, my brothers, my parents and my husband. It was madness! Glad you are all feeling better!
Kalee, that car must have been nasty when your dad got home!!! UGHH!
Apparently it wasn’t too bad at all. It was more solids than anything. Which is good I guess. It’s unfortunate by my maman gets sick at throw up, so it would have been a bigger mess!
“More solids than anything.” – Oh that is just disgusting… I’m so glad I wrote this blog post! haha!
We have it too Rebekah. Liam was throwing up on Tuesday, Chris on Wednesday, and then me on Thursday. I have been off school since Wednesday taking care of them and now me. It is all over the county. I have heard of multiple people having it. Take care hun.
Maybe they should have posted a warning sign at church- YOU MAY CONTRACT THE NASTY STOMACH BUG IF YOU ENTER THESE DOORS THIS WEEK!!
Bryce threw up twice Wed night. He acted perfectly like his normal self (just didn’t eat as much Wed during the day as normal) the whole time! I’m hoping for the best for Jonathan and I!!!!!
I’m glad you’re feeling better… what a yucky thing.
although I am not a parent, I can relate to this. i remember from when i was maybe 4 or even earlier something similar to this. i had a twin sister who i shared a bed with. i dont know which one of us, but one of us got sick and because we were sharing the bed, it got all over both of us. i remember my father bathing my sister and me, while my mother washed the sheets and our clothes. =p
Julie, this story almost made me toss my cookies.
Oh Rebekah, you crack me up! The way you wrote this was hilarious ;). Like JessieLeigh, I was thinking it would be way worse than puke. Hope all is better now.
Miranda, I’m glad you found joy in my sorrow! 😉
I got food poisoning when Gabe was two. I had to call my mother to come home and stay with him while I got carted off in an ambulance. I was admitted for the night. It sucked. But Gabe was such a trooper. He just kept smiling and giggling and playing on his own. He wash hardly phased… it is still in my top ten most traumatic moments as a mom.
I know this comment is way past when you posted this, but I totally know what you are talking about. The dreaded opening of the door and being knocked over by the smell of vomit. So gross! You know you’ve crossed a major milestone when your kid can actually puke in a bucket/toilet. 🙂
Kate, I love comments on old posts!!! It warms my heart in special way that only bloggers can understand. 🙂 I certainly don’t want to rush through these years with my little one, but I will be so thankful for the day that Grace reaches that beloved milestone!
My mom has said before that her least favorite part of being a mom was cleaning puke off of concrete. My bedroom had a concrete floor, and I would occasionally wake up and puke with no time to get to the bathroom or anything, so I would just lean over the side of the bed and puke. I would dread going upstairs to wake my mom up and tell her that I had puked.
I would think that concrete would be easier than carpet, but either way puke is gross. Hands down.