When Your Baby's Sick

There are trials and errors in parenting… Good times…bad times…we don't always get to pick.. The times our children are happy…the times when they are sick. When our baby is sick…there's a helplessness we feel As we hover over their bedside…wondering if this is real… Listening to their breathing…looking for signs of hope upon their face… Saying: "If there is any way we could stop this…we'd gladly take their place." When our child is sick, we still feel helpless…we worry, we fret, we stew… We try to meet their every need…as we wonder: Is there more that we can do? When our teenager is sick, …by now you think we'd be at ease… but we're still concerned over every fever…every cough and every sneeze. When they become adults and they are sick…and they call to tell us on the phone we try to hide our worry…now that they are fully grown… But we can't…and we subtly remind them something we hope they never will forget… that they will always be our baby… no matter how big or old they get. Yes, there are trials and errors in parenting and only a parent can comprehend… how the joys we share are amazing… and how the worry…never ends.