4.18.12

Well, that was a day from hell.
After last night's post, I honestly thought Paige was over the worst of this stomach bug. She had a bottle around 5:45pm, and went to sleep around 7 (no puking after that bottle, hooray!). She slept all the way through til 5am. The nurse that I had spoken to said that if Paige went more than 8 hours without vomiting, we could go back to feeding her normally (we were feeding her diluted apple juice and a rice cereal/salt water mixture by syringe every 10 minutes or so).
So, I stupidly thought I could give Paige a big ol' bottle - she finished it fine, sat up with Josh for about 20 minutes without puking so he put her in her crib. Do you know what puking sounds like through a baby monitor? I'll spare you the details (just those ones, apparently not any others). After cleaning that all up, she slept some more. She was quite hungry when she woke up, so I attempted a very small amount of formula. No dice. That came up. Called Josh to bring home some Pedialyte, since the rice cereal stuff was really difficult to get her to take. In that time, Paige became very limp, lethargic and totally glazed over. Josh got her to take 2 syringes of the Pedialyte, but my gut told me to take her to the ER, so off we went - Wyatt, while still sick, had to go to Josh's grandparents since Josh refused to take any sick time this week (have I mentioned he had fire department commitments every night except Friday, too?).
Paige and I settled into seat in the waiting room, and then she promptly covered us both with Pedialyte. Lovely! There were two very lovely old ladies who clucked and tsked tsked and, "Why aren't they taking that baby in yet? So sad."
Anyway, long story not-so-short, she wasn't quite dehydrated yet, but was beginning to show signs (the lethargy, sunken eyes, sunken soft spot on her skull). They gave her some meds to stop the vomiting and then we were shuttled off to the observation unit for a few hours while I force fed her more Pedialyte to see if it would stay down. And it did! She's had about 10 oz. more of fluid tonight (no more diluted apple juice!) and is still doing well. I'll be praying for a puke free day tomorrow....I don't think I've ever been so efficient at doing laundry though! ;)