How do you deal with a sick kid?

monchichi

DS and DD have both thrown up before, but the only true stomach bug that came through our house was over 2 years ago (thank goodness).  DD was only 3 weeks at the time, so DH pretty much took care of DS.

Assuming that I will have to deal with this sometime now that DS is in preschool, how do you deal with a vomiting child?  Do you sleep with them, keep them in their bed covered with towels, or something different?   My kids are 2 & 3 right now and don't give warning when they're going to vomit. 

Barf is truly my downfall and it strikes fear in the pit of my stomach when I hear about a bug going around!  I'm only halfway kidding....... 

pincushions

I usually sleep on the couch with them. I have a  barf bucket near by just in case.

Our couch is leather and I would prefer they vomit all over that than in their rooms which are the only area with carpet!

emilykristene2006

I have a very weak stomach and just the thought of them getting sick is enough to make me sick.

It's happened a couple of times, but I usually put DD on our couch with towels down and I sleep with her there. I give her a bucket and she's good about making it in there. The weird thing is, it doesn't bother me in the moment. I know I can handle it now.

j-w

I have to ditto emilykristene in that, if I think about it, it's awful, but when you are dealing with it, it is not nearly as bad as you make it out to be.  I can't believe I just said that.  We have really only dealt with it once.  DD had gotten sick in her bed and I discovered it when I checked on her before going to bed.  She slept on our bedroom floor the rest of the night (hardwoods) and made it into a bucket.

Now, I don't know what I'd do with DS.  He thinks sleeping anywhere but his crib is a big game and doesn't actually sleep.  I know this because I took him down to the couch last night while he was coughing and he just laughed and climbed around.

joseysbride

My dd has only been puking sick twice (knock on wood).  Both times, I laid out a full sized quilt on the floor and laid her on that with a pillow.  Then, if or when she puked and didn't make it into the bucket I just had to wrap up the puke in the quilt and throw it in the wash.  Then start all over again with a fresh quilt.

Rebekah1021

We camp out on the couch with a barf bucket and plenty of towels. I don't get much notice, but she usually will go Uh, uh, uh and I know I have like a couple of seconds to hold her head over the bucket.

I give her a shot glass and sprite to sip on.