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Baby update

I promised an update on my son’s situation, so here I go. On our last visit to the doctor, she told us that when he will be able to hold food in, we should not give him the regular similac formula but the non-dairy one.

When I got home on Monday he was already sleeping. Tired from a day without eating. I didn’t stay for long before I went to the pharmacy to get him a soy-based formula and grab a pizza since we were both too tired to cook.

After leaving behind only two slices of a family sized pizza on the table, we went to bed. Just at that moment the little president woke up crying. He didn’t want to eat nor drink, he was tired and not feeling well, but wouldn’t go back to sleep. As in the last few nights he ended up with us in our bed.

At a round 3:00am he woke up again calling “amy, amy” (the non official baby-talk to English translation means: “I’m hungry feed me, I’m hungry feed me). So I handed him a bottle with the new Isomil formula and crossed my fingers. Please keep it in I thought to myself, if it comes back out again, there is no choice but to go to the hospital. He ate half a bottle and fell asleep again. I was nervous but fell asleep right after him.

I heard sounds. I opened my eyes and there he was sitting in between us. I felt with my hand everything around me, everything is dry, no vomiting this time, what a relief. He was hungry again so I went for another batch of formula. This time he almost finished the entire bottle. It was a good sign.

Though the vomiting stopped he still had diarrhea. But now, with some food and fluids, we know he will be ok. Yesterday he started eating some rice and mashed potatoes, not as he used to but enough to get him through this.

This morning we took some samples to the lab to find out if it might be worse than the every-now-and-than stomach virus.

posted by TheBlurredOne at 11:00 AM