Infection Control

How do you keep a sick toddler from sneezing and coughing all over their little newborn brother? Jakob is sick again. His cough is loud and chunky, he has an ear infection in one ear (thank goodness it isn’t a double again), and now the nose is running too! And for the life of me I cannot get him to cover his mouth while he coughs. Oh, and did I mention the diarrhea that he has from the antibiotics? Yuck. Jakob is still loving being a big brother. He wants to say good morning and check on him, he is singing to Aiden throughout the day, he tells me when he cries and that he is hungry, and he gives Aiden a kiss on the head when he goes to sleep at night. It is adorable, don’t get me wrong, but right now I wish I could put Aiden in a bubble and keep him away from Jakob’s evil germs! I really don’t want Aiden to get this cold. It would not be pretty! Aiden has his own issues right now too. Along with the baby acne, he has a goopy eye. The Dr. says it might be a blocked tear duct and we are applying an antibiotic cream into his little eye three times a day. It seems to irritate him quite a bit too. It waters for a long time afterwards. Poor little man.