The Little Things

Maddox had a rough night last night. He is a vivid dreamer, so the first few hours were spent helping him find Lego pieces in the bed. He was dreaming a house he built broke in the bed and he would hold out his hand to me with then"house" in it, crying because he couldn't find the pieces. It's weird. He is dreaming, but he can interact with me, so as long as I could convince him I found the pieces and put them in a safe place, he was fine. Then he woke up at some point saying he couldn't find the way and didn't want go down the secret passage, so I had to "show" him the other way to get home. It was an active night.

He didn't start throwing up until about 2 am, but he was whimpering all night. And he didn't throw up as badly as he was when we were admitted to the hospital.. I did need to stop his feeding earlier than usual this morning, and I had to decrease the rate of his feed last night.

This afternoon I hooked him back up at the normal rate for 2 1/2 hours to catch up a bit and he threw up after the first 45 minutes, then threw up about 20 minutes later, but stopped throwing up after that and fell asleep. And he wasn't throwing up the nasty stuff like at the hospital. He didn't get all lethargic either. And the area around his button isn't all irritated, which is good, because it gets painful if it is.

So, today I am thankful for the little things:
Not as much puking.
No lethargy when hooked up.
The skin around his button is good.
He isn't throwing up the nasty stuff.

As soon as I finished typing this, he started throwing up right after getting hooked up for nighttime feeds and it is the nasty stuff. Ugh. We are going to wait out the weekend before calling ( unless things get worse). He still has this junky cough and that is triggering most of the puking. Cough medicines don't seem to help and the home care nurse listened to him yesterday and his lungs sounded ok. Thankfully Mason is spending the night at his friend's house tonight so he doesn't have to see this. Well, off to bed. We'll see what tonight holds for us.

(Jack decided to join in and he threw up his food tonight. He's probably allergic to it)