Someone please tell me I'm not doing permanent damage to DS...
He got sick on Thanksgiving, took him to Dr on Sat, he has bronchitis. Dr said if it got worse he would need breathing treatments; it has just stayed the same. In the meantime, he got DH and me sick. DS went back to daycare Monday and has been taking 3 naps a day because he feels like crap.
Seriously this poor kid sounds like he has the black lung and walks around with boogers running down his face whining because he is miserable. Over the weekend after playing with his toys for a bit I put in an Einstein video my MIL got us so he could just lay in bed with me under the covers. It is seriously the only thing that keeps him somewhat happy.
The only other thing that works is reading to him but both DH and I have now lost our voices so I can't get thru more than 1 book. He's been watching 2 videos a day and completely turns towards the TV when he hears the intro and zones out like a couch potato. I feel like the mom who just sticks her kid in front of a tv for 4 hours straight:(
Sorry for the rambling post...just wondering if anyone else lets their LOs watch videos...or am I going to get a flaming because TV under 2 is the devil!
Re: Baby Einstein videos
Oh, God. It's fine. He's sick, you're sick, you're doing what you have to do to keep everyone rested and sane.
Seriously. Don't worry about this. DS went through a phase where he was OBSESSED with his BE videos and had a fit if he couldn't watch it once a day. So I let him watch it once a day. And the phased passed, and now he doesn't care for TV much at all.
(read it. you know you want to.)
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