1. Leaving the Wee One alone in the car for 3.2 seconds while I run inside to grab my cell phone. He was walking down from his house as I came back out and got in the car with her. When he got in the car, he did that thing where he says something to the baby instead of directly to me about how I shouldn't leave her alone in the car. Then he lightly slapped me back and forth on my arm.
I of course was livid. What was I supposed to do ... get her totally back out of the car to go inside and grab my phone off the couch? Leave my phone behind? I don't leave her out there for hours at a time, but for the 20 milliseconds it took me to walk from the front door to the couch, pick up the phone, and walk back out the front door? A. Chill out. And B. GET THE EFF OFF MY BACK DAD.
2. Daycare infecting my daughter with various microorganisms. While yes, my daughter has been sick quite frequently since starting back to daycare, she's been well for almost two weeks. But, again, she seems to have caught another virus. Fever, not feeling well, not a very good appetite. Family Portraits In The Park was ruined because she refused to lift her head off my shoulder, so at breakfast my dad suggests that I should change daycares.
When I point out that she would still be around a large number of snotty-nosed kids at another daycare, he got mad and said that's the only variable I could control. I don't really know what they expect from me.
When we talk to doctors, they all say this is normal. Viruses just run their course, viruses are common this time of year. Frequent infections might help her immunity later, even. Do they just say that because they really can't say TAKE YOUR KID OUT OF DAYCARE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YOU"RE KILLING HER? Or is it just that it's easier to say "let a virus run its course" when you're a doctor and it's not your kid that's running a fever for three days and won't eat and just wants to cry and lay around?
This morning a rash was added to the list of symptoms, so I took her to the Urgent Care place. While waiting for the diagnosis of Roseola, and the treatment recommendation of "treat the fever, let the virus run its course", my mother broaches the topic. She is interested in running an experiment: take Wee One out of circulation - take her out of daycare and limit her exposure to other children for, say, a month. See if she gets sick. Then expose her to other children and see if she gets sick. That will tell us if it's "daycare" or "her immune system" or whatever the problem is.
Despite the obvious major flaws in the experiment, and the fact that I can't keep her away from other people her entire life, I can't afford a nanny, so any other option is going to put her around other kids.
3. Meeting people on the internet. Specifically,
Not to mention the fact that I have been reading this woman's blog for years now, since I first found out I was pregnant and found her DIY Pregnancy and her single mom blogs. She doesn't seem the burley pervert type. First of all, posting photos of her kid over that long a time would be hard, and second of all, a man would never come up with the awesome nickname of Princess Von Fattybottom.
So, I think I need to take a break from the parents after this weekend, and they probably need a break from me, too. I'm afraid that I'll get another migraine over all of this. Then I will literally feel like my head is exploding.