What a Way to Celebrate

Mia turned ten months today and boy was it a memorable day. I have a few pictures of a sick and listless baby. We started off by Mia waking just before 7 AM. She nursed as usual, but a few sips into the second boob (I was only feeding one breast in hopes that she would eat more solids, but it made no difference so I went back to giving two boobies each morning) she pulled off, clapped her hands and then proceeded to barf all the milk from booby #1 all over our bed. The sheets and mattress pad needed washing anyway, so I handed her to Papa and he cleaned her up while I cleaned myself up and pulled off the sheets.

The vomit was a fluke so I thought. She was acting fine otherwise. I figured she just gagged or something. I finished nursing her. Then she played a bit, pulled herself up on the couch and fell back with a smack onto the rug. Where was I? Videotaping her 10th month milestone of pulling herself up. Guess she has not reached the "able to stand and balance self" milestone yet. Of course, I dropped the camera (still rolling and only Kona's legs are in view) and went to soothe Mia. About a minute later she puked again. Good thing we had a large blanket on our nice Pottery Barn rug (which we got for a steal) that caught most of Booby #2's milk. Wow, she must be sick. But part of me was in denial because she was not acting fussy and had no temperature to the touch.

Well, a few minutes later she hurled again, this time on Pua Pua. All of this happened in the span of 1.5 hours. Off I went to call Sand Point Peds for an appointment. Poor baby. I tried to feed her some oatmeal and egg yolk. She wasn't interested beyond the first few bites which is like any normal day. She ate a bunch of Cheerios which made me feel better because I hate for her to have an empty stomach. Around 11:30 Mia began to convulse again. Let me tell you that you usually feel the vomit coming up if you are holding your baby, but you still don't know quite what to do or how to react. If I could think fast enough I would have have her over the toilet, but it didn't go down that way. At that point I decided to only feed her liquids.

Around 12:30 Mia had her first ever diarrhea. Wow, what a way to celebrate 10 months! It was horrible. The stench. The color. The contents. The seeping. I felt such pity for her that tears welled up. Her appointment was at 1:45 and boy did I have a lot more to share with them than I did at 9 when I made the appointment. By this time she began to get a bit fussy and she had already taken a couple of cat naps.

We make it to the doctor's and I learned no water for a vomiting baby under 2. Only breastmilk and Pedialyte. No solids until there is no vomiting for at least 8 hours. My baby has lost about half a pound. Poor thing.

In the evening she developed a fever and got even fussier. But luckily she has been asleep since 8 PM. I was expecting her to wake up many times tonight. So far so good. I'll give a follow-up report.