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Friday, February 20, 2015
Poor Baby! Good thing I have IAHS!!!
So, as a Mother the idea of a full nights rest is really a notion of the past ( pre-children). There are the rare times that my children actually do, sleep through the night, and I actually do get some wonderful sleep. But, wonderful "mother sleep" is nothing compared to the AMAZING pre-children sleep that one used to get. With "mother sleep" there is an automatic physical phenomenon…it's called "Involuntary Auditory Half-Sleep"(IAHS). This is when a parent gets the rest that is only needed as the body has the ability to awaken at any moment due to any noise that their offspring is making….and I mean ANY Noise!
It's true!
Unless a parent medicates enough to disable this phenomenon, there is usually no stopping IAHS.
Of course, there is an exception to such a thing…It's when there are two parents, and only one of these two is the one who usually gets up during the night while the other continues to sleep. This pattern usually starts at birth and the parent that usually bypasses IAHS is the male species, as the female is usually the one that needs to feed the infants.
It's because of this phenomenon that I imagine that there will only be truly sleep when I am going through another phase called "Empty Nest Syndrome".
But, as a mother of two young children, I believe that this ability and phenomenon is a good thing. I can hear them every time they need me. Last night was no exception.
I was up half the night due to my son breaking out in hives. My poor little boy started having itchy feet at around midnight. Then slowly but surely he started breaking out on his torso, buttocks, and limbs. He even has a hive on his face.
This was the first time that my little boy of almost 7years has ever had an allergic reaction. What I think it might be?…Walnuts.
An allergy to walnuts is a little bit nerve racking to me, as there has never been any type of allergy to nuts on either side of my husbands or my family, and nuts are a huge part of all of our diets. My son has had a love for peanuts since he was little and has never had a problem.
With walnuts, he never really had the desire to eat any, so I never pushed it on him. I think that the only reason that he decided to eat them last night was because of a colorful conversation that we had at dinner time about cave-men and what they used to eat. That conversation intrigued him and after dinner he asked for walnuts…and pine nuts (the reason that I don't think it's pine nuts is because he has had an abundant amount of pine nuts in the past with no symptoms…but I won't rule it out completely).
So, last night I tried to help the itching with the only thing that I had on hand- cortisone cream. It did help, and this morning the hives that first started to appear are starting to disappear… but he still itches and we need to see the doctor…who knows, we might actually need to have an allergy test done…
Well, now we have had another application of cortisone cream and are waiting for the doctor's office to open… the rest is "To Be Determined".
And this is what I will be like from now on….
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