Rough Night

Poor little guy, he slept great our first night home, but last night wasn't so good. He got back to his normal eating schedule yesterday and seemed to be doing well, but he woke up crying at 3:30am (he usually sleeps from 10pm-6:30am). I went in to check on him and then he threw up. He continued throwing up every 15-20 minutes for the next 2 hours. I finally decided to call UNC's CICC unit (the floor we were on right before we went home) and asked them what to do. They suggested trying Pedialyte but we don't have any plus I didn't know how to thicken it. So they suggested feeding him one ounce/hour so he wasn't running on a totally empty stomach and so he wouldn't get dehydrated.

Ethan took the first ounce fine and seemed hungry for more so I let him have another half ounce and gave him a good burp but about 10 minutes later he threw up again. He finally fell asleep around 6:30am and slept till I woke him at 8:30am to go for his pediatrician appointment (just a routine follow up that the hospital scheduled for us). He seemed hungry so I tried feeding him 2 ounces and he gobbled it all up, but as I was burping him, he threw it all up again - a total of 8 episodes since 3:30 this morning. By that time, we were both exhausted but it was time to leave for the doctor.

His doctor said he looks great, his oxygen sat was in the mid-80's and he weighed almost 15 1/2 pounds, which is what he weighed before surgery. The doctor gave us a sample of Pedialyte and told us not to worry about thickening it, to just start him out very slow - about 2 teaspoons every 15 minutes for 2 times, then gradually increase the dosage and spread out the amount of time between feedings until we're up to 2oz. every 2 hours, then I can try mixing it with formula. His doctor thinks he may have caught a little bug since we came home on Saturday.

So please pray that Ethan can keep his Pedialyte down and eventually get back to taking a bottle by the end of the day. If it's not a stomach bug, I told the doc I think it could just be that he's adjusting to getting back to eating his normal eating schedule since he wasn't eating very much at the hospital. He fell asleep on the car ride home from the doctor so I'm just letting him sleep for a bit before I start the Pedialyte.