“Why DO children vomit in the middle of the night?” It’s a question I couldn’t help puzzling over as I scraped vomit from bedding into a basement sink. I mean, vomit happens during the daytime, sure. And children sometimes make it to the bathroom, a waiting bowl, a SickSack(TM), or sometimes you decide you didn’t love that sweater as much as you thought. I wondered if I had become desensitized to “daytime vomit” from my days of caring for an infant. As if all that vomit had blurred into one, unending, forgettable, and insignificant cleanup, and the only episodes that stand out any more are when you hear: “my pants are wet!”, and the usual wet-pant-urine-check quickly evolves into a handful of sticky-mashed-potato-horror! And it isn’t just the laundry, it’s carefully checking each item/child in the bed for vomit, hoping that the currently-not-vomiting-sibling stays asleep, while you peel everything off the bed, and eventually holding that confirmed...
Jer and Andy are dads, one straight and one gay, raising kids, sometimes successfully