Sick child? Treat your mother

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Old teachers - I carried their experience and wisdom with me throughout my life. In general, I must say that I was incredibly lucky with the teachers!

And at the school (it's shameful that I don't remember the names), but the knowledge that Elsa Lvovna, who worked as a pediatrician during the Patriotic War, gave me, helps me to this day! For the first time I heard this phrase from her: "Sick child - heal the mother!"

I remember how I came to the first lesson in pediatrics at the institute. Our teacher with a funny surname Kuksa and some strange patronymic, a talented doctor, said a phrase that I remembered all my life from the time I studied with Elza Lvovna, this phrase has always been confirmed by practice: “Do you see a sick child? Treat your mother!"

This time it sounded like a password. My children were sick, sometimes almost fatally. In general, this feature, noticed by many, is that the children of doctors get sick more severely than others. The doctor carries the infections of all his patients on the physical level. And a bunch of terribly harmful information at the field information level.

In general, children sometimes have to get sick, it's even good, for example, it is definitely better to get sick with chickenpox in childhood. It has been noticed that people who are not sick with anything live less than those who are slightly sick, mainly with colds and are not treated with antibiotics. Because a cold is a way of self-cleaning of the body and reconfiguring the immune system according to the circumstances, this happens often when the climate changes and this is normal.

But there are other diseases, there are situations when the child “does not crawl out of the disease”, if this is not a genetic disorder, then it makes sense to think about it. This happens most often when sick, this is the only unconscious way to attract the attention of the mother. The mental and physical condition of the mother is very important here.

A tired, nervous, exhausted and irritated mother unwittingly "vampires" her child. This is expressed in the rapid removal of the breast, as soon as the baby is distracted during feeding, with sudden movements during changing clothes, in an irritated tone, which the mother speaks to the child. She needs to rest immediately!

Fathers! I appeal to you, if you wish peace and prosperity to your family and health to your children, monitor the health of your half! She herself often cannot track her condition objectively. Maternal labor, labor without vacations and days off. Until recently, you freely entertained yourself, traveled, went to the cinema and theaters, to exhibitions, and now she is with her child all the time, often in a confined space, this has dramatically changed her life.

And if the child is not the first? Are other children jealous and demanding attention, and the mother is trying to be torn between everyone?

A well-trained, healthy woman copes with these loads. But as soon as health problems arise, they immediately affect the children. I have acquaintances with many children, different, with different social and cultural levels. I want to say about one family, when the fifth child was born, I advised my mother to take a break: the woman suffered from anemia (almost constant breastfeeding and annual pregnancies depleted the body), psychologically she was constantly looking for support from outsiders, because she herself “did not pull the situation.

I advised, at least, to relax in the bathroom with babies. But no, twins appear next! At six months, children fall ill with pneumonia and go to the hospital, an involuntary passage from their father: “It's so good that they are in the hospital! I'll get some rest! Wishes to establish at least some kind of rest regime for the mother were not successful. She gives birth again a year later, and having an eighth three-month-old baby, she falls ill with severe bilateral lobar pneumonia! Survived by a miracle! She still gives birth every year. And children get sick, get sick, get sick….

There is another option. A couple arrives, at 38 weeks. Give birth. I look at a woman and understand (there is such a concept in medicine as habitus, appearance in certain pathologies) that this woman is sick with a chronic infectious process. And I recommend going to the hospital, especially since it is better not to make decisions about home birth at such periods. They nevertheless decided to give birth at home, but they understood well that not everything was in order with the child, and called an ambulance.

The child did not get out of the intensive care unit, and at three months he was operated on for an abscess in the lungs. These people constantly demanded my consultations, and I stubbornly insisted that the woman should be examined and treated. They didn’t listen. I refused them, there is no point in leading people who do not fulfill your recommendations - the privilege of a private doctor. This did not teach them anything, two years later they gave birth to another dead child at home. This is me for those who are confident that home birth will guarantee success.

Success is guaranteed by your way of life and thoughts and conscious responsibility for your decisions !! Yes! There are two extreme options, there are many intermediate ones between them. These cases are very revealing. Children, as a barometer, show the state of the family, and above all, of the mother. I tracked on myself that mine were sick when I was not in the best physical and mental shape. And they were healthy when I was healthy.

So rest, exercise, good food, sun, walks and entertainment are not whims, but a necessary component of a happy parenting! It cannot be done artificially, it is possible only when it is your way of life. We were always called to exhausting labor, and it was considered in the order of things when life was perceived as endless hard labor. It is not true! Think, who benefits?

Be healthy, live in love, tasty and joyful!

Isabella Voskresenskaya