Comments on: No Time to Be Sick

By: » What I Learned in November 2009 Strocel.com

» What I Learned in November 2009 Strocel.com — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:03:37 +0000

[...] I discovered that I am not the only mom who just can’t seem to find the time to be sick. We’re busy, [...]

By: IComLeavWe: Day 6 | PhD in Parenting

IComLeavWe: Day 6 | PhD in Parenting — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:36:30 +0000

[...] Strocel: No time to be sick [...]

By: Annie @ PhD in Parenting

Annie @ PhD in Parenting — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:38:11 +0000

I have definitely been sick much less frequently since becoming a mother. I can remember only once in my 5.5 years of mothering that I was sick enough that I needed someone else to take care of the kids so that I could get some rest and/or that I had to stay home from work.

I have had mild colds here and there, but nothing serious.
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By: Lady M

Lady M — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:21:35 +0000

I didn’t get much in the way of colds when I was pregnant, but boy did I have preggo nausea the second time around to make up for it!
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By: Missy @ The Marketing Mama

Missy @ The Marketing Mama — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:15:29 +0000

First of all, I love that picture of you and the kids – it’s so cute! I think because your sweater kind of matches your hair, the drapes and the baby carrier.

I think I’m healthier when pregnant and nursing, too. My seasonal allergies get more tolerable, but not my cat allergy!

Hope you feel better soon!
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By: Emily R

Emily R — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:13:46 +0000

I had a harder time kicking colds when I was pregnant. I got sick much less frequently when I was breastfeeding.
I love Lily and her purple plastic purse, not to mention those jingly quarters.
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By: Lauren @ Hobo Mama

Lauren @ Hobo Mama — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:29:11 +0000

Both my parents were anti-lolling around, so they always went about their business when sick. Consequently, they taught me not to coddle myself or other people. I’ve started to question this, living with my husband, who’s so sweet to the sickies in his life, and also as I realize how much we must have spread our contagion when growing up and continuing to go to school and work while sneezing on everybody.

We have the vector problem, too: one little guy who goes out to preschool and brings back all the cute little bugs. He seems to have a perpetual runny nose, though he only gets miserable about it when it stuffs him up so completely that nursing is hard. Otherwise, he doesn’t care. I seem to catch about half his viruses, but my husband seems to catch them all, and hard. So it might be a protective thing for me. My husband, despite his coddling nature, doesn’t go big into complaining about his own sicknesses. I just know when he’s sick because he snores!

I’m afraid now that I’ve commented that we’ll all get the flu or something. That tempting-fate thing isn’t catching, is it, Amber? Hope you feel better soon!
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By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:22:37 +0000

While pregnant with number three I got so so so sick twice, I think because I was so busy working and running around after my two older kids I just got run down.
Interestingly, when I’ve been pregnant and nursing, I don’t get migraines. I’ve had them since I was 11 or so and I’m pretty sure they’re hormonally related (at least some of them are), so that’s a good incentive for me to keep breastfeeding my third as long as possible!

By: Francesca

Francesca — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:57:45 +0000

Oops, I’m so sorry Amber, I hope you get better soon!
To be honest, I think when you’re a mother being sick is unfortunately often a luxury. Nothing to do with biology, in my experience. I’ve spent about 10 years being pregnant (lost pregnancies and all), and I did get sick when I caught something or broke something or got a chronic sickness (Graves Disease like Angela above), but I could never “behave” sick. My elderly farmer neighbor recently told me how when her 80+ year old husband complains about some ailment she’ll ruthlessly just remind him of the pains of childbirth she went through five times – end of story (and medicalized or soft chilbirth to this day is a real luxury in my country, included during stillbirth — here it’s just as natural as it gets). I think it’s the change of perspective that occurs with motherhood that projects into a different cognitive experience of our own illness.
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By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:51:47 +0000

While was breastfeeding my diabetes was under control with no medication. It was great. I don’t recall if I didn’t get sick with colds more or less when I was nursing but I certainly came down with horrible viral infections when I was pregnant. Pregnancy was not good times as my body was just giving all immunity to my babies and left me out in the cold.
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