Sick!

Leilani was really sick, started vomitting at 3am (still parts of her undigested dinner), and then every 15-30 minutes until 10am. She was awake until about 4:30, and then was so exhausted that she fell asleep as soon as one bout of sickness was over, slept for a few minutes, only to be woken up by another wave of nausea. Every little sip of water or milk came back up.

She got up at 7:30 or so, asked to go potty (she had been on the potty in the middle of the night too) and didn’t really have diarrea, just a little too soft. Later she was quite lethargic, and just dozed with open eyes in my arms.

We had called a nursing line earlier, and they told us not to go to the emergency room, but wait and see her pediatrician in the morning [Andy says: I wonder if they could tell that we were first-time parents–next time we probably won’t take her to the doctor unless she shows other signs]. We got a 10am appointment, and just before we left I found some homeopathic Nux Vomica, and gave that to her. Within minutes she started talking and smiling again, threw up one last time, but in the doctor’s office she was fine and happy, playing, demanding books and commenting on the pictures there.

Needless to say he found her totally healthy and send us home with the recommendation not to get the prescription he had given us just in case. We did suggest that maybe the sugar in the homeopathic pills had something to do with Leilani’s improvement, but maybe that was just for the doctor’s benefit.

We had promissed her an airplane book or stickers, so we went to Borders, and waited for 1/2 hour (spent 50$ but got an airplane book, a sticker book, a coloring book and 2 huge books on animals). When the pizza place next door opened Andy went and ordered pizza, and that’s all Leilani talked about the last 15 minutes at Borders. She ate an entire slice of a large pizza (according to Weightwatchers 6 points, 300 or so calories) and part of another one. We briefly panicked when she burped, but she was fine. She fell asleep in the car and did not wake up when we put her in the bed.

P.S. Even though we did have a diaper on her today, it stayed dry and clean through all the sickness, and yesterday there were no accidents at all either (and no diapers).

Author: Sonja

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