14 April 2011

Good Thing We Have A Steam Cleaner

Buddy boy is already giving us gray hair and he hasn't even had his first birthday. Jonathan threw up two more times today. We've been trying to feed him the past week or so but he hasn't been interested in food. At first we thought he might just have a stomach bug and that we just needed to let it take its course. The minutes, hours, and days are passing and things aren't changing much.

This all started after Jonathan caught a cold (or some funk) after playing in a "common area". Since then, his cold has gone away but he has since been vomiting and having really bad diapers. To complicate matters he's also teething right now. We're fighting to get fluids and calories in him with a syringe yet he keeps "giving some of it back". He's been burping a lot too - either because something is going on in his stomach or because of the way we've been feeding him. Lately he's been grabbing his ear, but we're not convinced he has an ear infection yet. If this keeps up for another day or so, I don't know what else we can do except to get him checked out for an ear infection. I kind of hope that's what's going on. If not, considering the recent visit to the gastroenterologist, I'm going to start worrying that something more serious is going on.

Not to compare kids, but we didn't realize how easy we had it with Julia until now.