Messy baby

So yesterday, I sat down to read the latest on baby Julianne (see link on right). Her current blog entry mentioned how they had a messy day with Julianne at their cardiologist office. Without getting too detailed, lets just say she had stuff coming out both ends and it got all over Julianne and her mom! Unfortunately, that has been the "norm" for them recently. Well we sort of had our own similar experience yesterday and today.

Poor Ethan, he just can't decide how hungry he is sometimes! We've been feeding him 6 bottles in a 24 hour period. These bottles have been only 4 oz. because they are still high-cal (26 cal/oz. as opposed to a normal formula bottle that is 20 cal/oz.) and still thickened with rice cereal to give even more calories per bottle. Well yesterday I experimented with his new bigger 9oz. bottle that I just bought. Basically I've done the math and a 4oz. 26 cal/oz. bottle is about the same as a 5 oz. bottle of 20 cal/oz. I tried giving him a normal 20 cal/oz. bottle without the rice cereal and he seemed to do ok for the first 3 oz. but then threw it all up. That was mess #1.

So I changed Ethan into his onesie that says "Automatic Sprinkler" - I bet you can guess what mess #2 was! Dan has prided himself in the fact that he hasn't been "automatically sprinkled" while changing Ethan's diaper so far. Well Ethan decided to change that record! Fortunately the leak was contained on the waterproof changing pad underneath him!

And shortly after the "sprinkler" accident, Dan fed Ethan his evening bottle - a regular 4 oz. high-cal/thickened bottle. All went fine with the feeding, but a few minutes later, Dan passed Ethan off to me to hold him for a bit. Ethan started sucking his fingers (he prefers them over his thumb) and gagged himself which made him throw up all over me for the 2nd time!

So then we decided it was bath time. He enjoys his baths, especially since I've started adding bubbles. He kicks and kicks in his baby bathtub over the sink, splashing soapy water all over the countertops - mess #4(not so bad!).

Then we jump forward to today - Ethan did great all day today, even for the few hours that his Mimi babysat him. But for his dinner, he took all 4oz. of his high-cal/thickened bottle and wanted more so we made him another 1oz. bottle. He seemed to do fine with that and STILL seemed hungry. So I let him sit in his bouncy seat for a little while to let his food digest and he started getting sleepy so I went ahead and gave him his nightly medicine and then he decided to throw up again. So I gave him a sponge bath, changed him into his jammies and he quickly drifted off to sleep so I took him upstairs to his crib for the night.

What an eventful 2 days! Well I hope you're able to get a little laugh out of this like we have! Oh, by the way, his cold is getting better and so is mine. I don't think the throwing up has anything to do with his stuffy nose. We're still on track for going to UNC next Friday, 1/18, for pre-op. If his cold is worse then we'll likely postpone the surgery, but I talked to his cardiologist office today and they said that he doesn't seem sick enough right now to postpone. That's good news because I just want to get this surgery over with and be back home once again.