Decisions decisions...

I know it's been more than a month since I updated this blog. I have been so very busy with Happy Parents and dealing with new sicknesses and making decisions and decisions.

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Major decision number 1:
My berry has been sick yet again, this time it was rhotavirus of 10 days followed by a traveler's diarrhea.  You know the story now, 2 different hospitals, 4 different doctor visits, multiple tests, multiple new vitamins and minerals, one baby who lost weight and all his schedule (started getting up at night again, wanted to be breastfed all the time when I was weaning) and one mother who almost lost it.

Then came my decision. I'm taking him out of the daycare. I cannot do this anymore. I'm exhausted and feel like we're paying for nothing. Every month he is at the daycare maybe for 6 days...then at home sick the rest of the time..He's never been in the daycare for 3 weeks in a row since we started. But what made me more sure of my decision is that I checked his growth from his carnet de santé (health book). He was 8 kg at 6 months when he started the daycare, with his sicknesses last month, he went lower than 9 kg  and now he is 9kg4. So in 5 months, he gained only 1 kg. I know that they don't grow as much after the 6th month and 9kg is not that bad for an 11-month-old but that's why there are percentiles and grow charts. He was always in the 80th-90th percentile, after the crèche it was 50th, and now it's even lower.

My pediatrician said that it takes at least 2 winters for his immune system to build up. So I give up. I can't do this for another year.

So now, we're looking for someone who could come to our house to take care of him. I'll keep you posted on the developments.

This picture has nothing to do with decisions but I love these 2 and this picture made me laugh :)

Major decision number 2: 

With or without S was just the beginning of multiple and multiple decisions I have to make daily about Happy Parents (yes, finally, after talking to many marketing experts, it is Happy Parents with an "S")

What template should I choose for my website? What should my job title be? Psychologist, program manager, child development specialist, expert, happiness advocate, unhappy parent extraordinaire?

What animal to use on the logo?What pictures I should use on the website? Is this mom on the picture too pretty and fake and blond? What should I write on the homepage? How can I sound intimate (I'm a mother as well and boy I know it's difficult) but also professional (I kind of have a phd in parenting) How much should I charge people? will I even make any money?

Every step is challenging, every step is difficult, I'm so not in my element when consultants show me excel sheets on budget and feel so stupid that I don't really know the difference between charges and investments.

All I want is to talk to new mamas about parenting and have fun but I'm buried into numbers, figures, charts, and administrative tasks...

I am overwhelmed...