Sick Boy

Our little man was sick last week. Saturday evening, while he was in his highchair eating his dinner, he started gagging and throwing up. He did that a few times. He acted perfectly fine once it was over so we cleaned him all up and got him ready for bed. I gave him his bottle and once he got done with that, it all came back up. He was still smiling, talking, and acting fine. I just assumed it was still the phlegm he's had in his throat, although he wasn't acting like he really wanted to eat. He went on to sleep and woke up at 4am. He never wakes up during the night so I knew he was hungry since his dinner and nighttime bottle came up. I fed him and as soon as I sat him up, it all came spewing out. Again, he acted fine and went on back to sleep. He woke up Sunday morning and I could tell he wasn't his normal self--he didn't act like he wanted a bottle or anything. I called and left a message for the doctor to call me. She called me back and said to give him 1 ounce of Pedialite every 30 minutes or so and see how well he keeps that down. If he keeps it all down by late that evening, to try formula again.

He did fine with the Pedialite, he kept it all down. He was hungry though and got mad when he got done with it because he wanted more.

 Eventually we started upping how much he was drinking each time. We decided to skip the solid food that day and gave him a bottle of formula that night. He did fine with it and slept all night. The next morning I gave him a bottle and he threw it up before he finished it, of course still smiling. He threw up another bottle later in the day so he just had Pedialite that evening.

After that, we just started giving him a little bit of formula at a time. We would do 2 ounces and if it stayed down, go up to 3 next time. He did four ounces for a day or so and for the last 4-5 days he's still taking 5 ounces. He hasn't gone back up to 6 yet. He could probably handle it now though. I don't know what was wrong with my little guy. I don't know if it was some kind of virus or what. His doctor (when we called again) said it could be reflux so she told us to try giving him Zantac again. We didn't do that and decided to just see what happens. He's been fine the past few days. Although a few times he has coughed until he threw up (Avaree did this and still does sometimes, and Mama said I did it as well). I hope it doesn't happen again, I feel so bad for him. Poor little guy didn't know what was going on.