Thanks Friend!

First off, I owe a big THANK YOU to my good friend for blessing me with the gift of blogging. (I truly love you! Mwah!)

Last night I had a 'situation', and because I had read a previous post of hers relating to this particular 'situation' of mine, I was able to keep somewhat calm and sane.

I had a pretty good scare. Hudson must have had a 'bug' or something, but is doing much better this morning.


I still shutter at the thought of how hard he was throwing up. He was retching so hard (I could compare it to a good hangover heave), and whimpering while his eyes were filled with tears. It broke my heart to see him so helpless. He seemed so tiny again.

It happened 6 times in less than an hour, and it was projectile. I phoned HealthLink, and the nurse made me feel like a piece of shit. Again, I refer to my friends previous post. I explained the scenario and that he was 6 months old. I told her that he was refusing food (he shakes his head 'no' now which I will post later today to show you) and how hard he was vomiting.

She gave me the 'what for' about feeding him anything more than rice cereal. Tsk! He STILL DOES eat rice cereal, but I now have him on fruits and veggies now as well. She insinuates that that must be why this is happening. Breast milk and rice cereal and nothing more.

Whatever.

So, she tells me that I need to take him up to Emergency, but they won't be able to give him anything because of his age. I will be going there to watch for dehydration, which you won't have to worry about yet. Take a breast pump and extract milk while you are there (where? In a bathroom every 10 minutes?) and feed him 1 tsp at a time to keep fluids in him and to ensure that it will stay down. Do not put him on the breast. If you put him on the breast, he will over eat and will be sick again. I asked if formula could be used, rather than 'teasing' him with boob and pulling him off. Formula?!?!? You can only imagine the coldness I received through the phone.

I phoned HL for help, not a lecture.

I had the words of my friend's experience playing in my head about how the baby now seemed fine and decided that if they really couldn't do anything for him anyway, I would just stay home. And that's just exactly what I did. I pumped in the privacy of my own home and fed him every 10 minutes for an hour. He was pretty good about it!

I slept with one eye open with him beside me. For the first time in a long time I was actually more than happy to get up with him in the night! *(I should specify that I am happy to spend time with him at any time in the day... I would rather be sleeping at night is all!)*

Today, he seems a bit sleepy... but seems to be eating fine. I will give him some fruit at lunch time and see how that pans out.


What a traumatic experience it was! I realize that there are going to be more flu incidents, cuts and bruises, and God help me-- stitches! But, maybe I will look at my friendly computer for answers next time before calling those ever-so-helpful opinionated phone nurses!