Always trust your mama instincts

Motherhood. Ohhhh motherhood. So many things change when you become a mother. You get these crazy super powers where you know what to do in every situation you could possibly imagine.

JUST KIDDING. As your parents probably told you, there is no step by step rule book. No matter how prepared you are, or think you are, you are flying by the seat of your pants half the time. Why is he crying? Oh I don’t know. Hungry? Tired? Trying to poop? He wants the cup of coffee I’m drinking? Sure. Why not.

Last week, I had my mama instinct super powers kick in though. Bennett started to develop the typical baby acne on his face. No worries there…. until it started to morph into what looked like crazy intense acne. 2 days before halloween, Patrick and I started to take concern on what was going on with his skin. It just didn’t look right. We thought maybe it was cradle cap that spread to his face? We cleaned it and applied coconut oil to his face thinking it was probably just intense dry skin. The day before halloween I gave him a bath and it looked like his entire face was about to peel off. I knew something was wrong and I needed to get his doctors appointment moved up. I called at 4:55 and left a message. Thankfully they called back first thing in the morning and we were able to get seen before the weekend set in. With only 45 mins to get myself ready, him fed and make it to the doctors office, I showed up looking like a crazy first time mom freaking out about why his face looked so crazy.

Then Dr. Hughes thanked me for coming in and getting it checked out. She told me the scientific name for what was going on with his skin but this first time mom was right on point with the fact that his skin should NOT look the way it did. Mr. B had gotten a bacteria infection that would have continued to get more severe and spread to more of his body if I would have ignored it. It was a form of a staph infection that can occurs when a baby scratches their face/baby acne and bacteria gets in and under the skin. She said he could have picked it up the bacteria from literally anywhere but now we just have to focus on keeping everything as clean as possible. I was right, it was NOT just baby acne or cradle cap. I’m thankful my mama instincts kicked in and I got him into the doctors office early. I’m thankful for Dr. Hughes who always listens to my concerns and takes so much time to calm my worries. I’m thankful for the medicine they prescribed which has done wonders for his skin. So, unfortunately we have had to put Mr. B in a germ reduced bubble, aka I’ve gotta be the anti germ nazi. While his skin is healing, we have to be super careful with not letting more bacteria enter into the infected areas. Thankfully he woke up today with most of the skin healed and this mama is happy to have her baby back to “normal”.

Realistically this infection was such a small thing. Very easy to treat. I can’t imagine the mama’s who have to deal with much harder circumstances, illness’s, hardships. Hug your babies tight mama’s and be thankful that they are in good health. Not everyone is as fortunate. I pray Patrick and I never have to deal with any serious diseases in Bennett’s life or falling off a moving car like I did when I was 16. I can’t imagine what my mom went through receiving the phone call from my brother who rode in the ambulance with me. Ann’s unconscious, she fell off of the back of a moving car, we called 911 and are on our way to Wakemed. Later on I was told she beat the ambulance to the hospital! It’s those mama instincts! That’s an entirely different story for a different post though.

Anywhos. Always trust your mama instincts. 🙂 Happy Wednesday yall.