A long, messy night

Last night was a long night. Thank God my mom was in town because I do not know if I could have survived otherwise!

Yesterday around 6pm Alexander threw up the apple juice he was drinking. Silly me, I thought he just got choked up, maybe went down the wrong pipe and he started coughing, and his body just decided to be sick too. It never occured to me that it could be something more... until about 10:45pm. He had been fast asleep and then all of the sudden we heard him SCREAM. My mom and I went in and he had vomited in his crib, and all over himself.

By the time we cleaned him up he was wide awake, so we took him out to the living room. As my mom was putting the dirty sheets and towel into the washing machine, I began dressing Alexander in some fresh jammies. He then began to vomit more. I quickly turned him over and he was crying and screaming as his dinner continued to come up. Oh my goodness. It just broke my heart to see him like that. He continued to throw up and cry hysterically once every 10-20 minutes for about 2 hours. Ugh. Horrible. The whole time I was just on the verge of tears. My poor baby boy.

We called the doctor. Thank goodness he was so sweet and calm, and explained every little thing to me, despite the fact that it was 1am. Of course he said "give him pedialyte when this wave of vomiting passes, and if he cant keep it down go to the ER." Well, THANK GOD it did not come to that.

Eventually, Alexander got so tired he was just tipping forward and falling asleep, folding in half. It was very funny, and nice to have something to giggle about. But, we had to build quite the set-up to get him to lay back propped up and stay asleep. Finally, he fell asleep and my mom and I decided to take shifts staying up with him. I slept first on the sofa and my mom sat on the floor and made sure he didn't roll over onto his tummy (which made him wake-up and be sick)... about 2 hours later my mom woke me up, we moved him into his pack-n-play, and he all three of us slept soundly, in our beds. Fantastic.

THEN this morning we had to deal with a grumpy, hungry baby who couldn't have anything but small amounts of water and pedialyte at short intervals... and tonight he ate applesauce for dinner. He wasn't sick once today! YAY! Kept the applesauce, the formula, and the pedialyte down. That means back to a regular diet tomorrow. Let's hope that he is better now and isn't that sick again for a VERY long time.

*sigh of relief*

Well, my mom was here from Monday-Thursday and we had a great time. I got my wedding dress (you'll have to wait until May to see it!) and we got a lot of wedding planning done. Tonight was my night off and tomorrow my sister and her wonderful family are coming to visit for the weekend! Hooray!