My posts just keep getting later and later. I keep telling myself that I will do my posts on Sundays but this makes 2 weeks in a row that it hasn't happened. I do have to say that I have a good excuse for not blogging on this past Sunday, though.
My little Ryder Roo was sick all weekend with a stomach bug. It all started with his 1:00 am bottle on Friday morning. Shortly after drinking his milk Ryder coughed a couple of times and started throwing up...projectile vomiting is a better description of what happened. I got him cleaned up, changed his crib sheets, and put him back to bed thinking that it was just a fluke, one-time thing. Fast forward to 7:00 am when we were getting up for the day. I was sitting on the couch pumping so Jason got Ryder out of his crib and brought him into the livingroom and put him in his walker. Almost instantly Ryder started projectile vomiting again...it was a LOT of vomit. The good thing was that Ryder seemed very un-phased by throwing up, so that made it a little easier to deal with for this momma.
Later that morning Ryder drank his bottle and kept it down, so again I was thinking that it was a fluke thing and nothing to be worried about. Ryder napped as usual and was in decent spirits - he was a little cranky, but I was blaming that on the 3 teeth he was cutting. That afternoon I again gave Ryder his bottle and this time he was only able to get down 2-3 oz before projectile vomiting it all back up. I gave him a break for a few minutes and tried again with the same results. I started thinking about things and realized that he had only kept down 5 oz at the most since bedtime the night before...now I was worried! I promptly called the nurse line and was at first told to take him straight to the ER...now I was really scared!!! The nurse decided to page our doctor to see what he recommended for us, and it was decided that we could keep him home but that we would need to give him a small amount Pedialyte every 5-10 minutes while he was awake and to not give him any breastmilk or other foods until the next morning at the earliest. They also instructed us to directly to the ER if he did not improve or would not take the Pedialyte.
So, all this intensive hydrating meant no work for this momma (I was supposed to work night shifts all weekend). My sister brought us some Pedialyte and we got to work instantly on trying to get our little man hydrated. Thankfully he drank it - I was worried he wouldn't because he has never successfully drank anything besides breastmilk despite our best efforts. So all Friday night and into Saturday morning this momma was busy making sure her baby boy didn't get further dehydrated. It was a long, sleepless night...
Ryder seemed to feel better on Saturday morning but was still not himself for the rest of the weekend. Thankfully he only vomited once on Saturday, but unfortunately the vomiting was replaced by diarrhea...lots of diarrhea. We're still battling that beast (in much smaller quantities) today - only once so far today thank goodness - but fortunately he is back to drinking breastmilk in his normal times and quantities. He is still not too interested in eating real food though; we'll keep trying!
So, that was our weekend. I was only able to work on Sunday night, so there goes 24 hours of PTO! We do have some exciting news, though; while our little man was battling his stomach bug he cut 3 top teeth. That makes a grand total of 6 teeth for him already! To summarize everything else, here goes: he's still army crawling instead of "regular" crawling, he still loves bananas and sweet potatoes over everything else, he ate his first real banana and LOVED it, he continues to love taking baths in the big boy tub, and each day he fills my life with so much love that I can barely stand it!
Well, I think that's it for us for this past week. Can you believe tomorrow is already February? Time is flying! Less than 4 months to Ryder's first birthday...
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