His birdwing shoulder blades rub together when he signs \u201cmore\u201d to my tuneless song.<\/h2>\nIt is Paul Simon, \u201cDiamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,\u201d in the off key of half sleep. But it makes him smile, which is all I need at the moment to keep me from dialing our pediatrician\u2019s emergency line.<\/h2>\nAnd I know this is just the beginning…<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nClick the picture below to read o<\/a>n<\/a> Scary Mommy<\/em><\/a> why this flu panic is the same panic I feel every time my kid gets sick.<\/h2>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mom-gene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-04-at-12.05.49-PM.png?resize=569%2C125\")
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**Amended to add, my son did not have the flu, but my husband did. You win some, you lose some.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is 3:37 a.m. and I am holding my five-year-old in my lap in the dark of the living room. He is shirtless and shaking. His birdwing shoulder blades rub together when he signs \u201cmore\u201d to my tuneless song. It is Paul Simon, \u201cDiamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,\u201d in the off key of half sleep. But it makes him smile, which is all I need at the moment to keep me from dialing …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,86,11,26],"tags":[28,97,46,470,176,209,55,136,63,54,17,84,261,471,15],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mom-gene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Charliesick.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ca5p-1cq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4694,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/4694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And I know this is just the beginning…<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nClick the picture below to read o<\/a>n<\/a> Scary Mommy<\/em><\/a> why this flu panic is the same panic I feel every time my kid gets sick.<\/h2>\n<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
**Amended to add, my son did not have the flu, but my husband did. You win some, you lose some.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Click the picture below to read o<\/a>n<\/a> Scary Mommy<\/em><\/a> why this flu panic is the same panic I feel every time my kid gets sick.<\/h2>\n<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
**Amended to add, my son did not have the flu, but my husband did. You win some, you lose some.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/p>\n It is 3:37 a.m. and I am holding my five-year-old in my lap in the dark of the living room. He is shirtless and shaking. His birdwing shoulder blades rub together when he signs \u201cmore\u201d to my tuneless song. It is Paul Simon, \u201cDiamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,\u201d in the off key of half sleep. But it makes him smile, which is all I need at the moment to keep me from dialing …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[21,86,11,26],"tags":[28,97,46,470,176,209,55,136,63,54,17,84,261,471,15],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mom-gene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Charliesick.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ca5p-1cq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4694,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/4694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom-gene.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a><\/p>\n**Amended to add, my son did not have the flu, but my husband did. You win some, you lose some.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"