Stressful Start to '09

Even though I still have a positive outlook for the New Year, it has been a stressful year thus far. Our stress actually began before the New Year on December 30...Bryce and I had taken a shopping trip to Columbia because it was such a nice day. When we got home I was feeding Bryce and he took the whole bottle like always and as soon as I sat him up to burp he had some major vomitting and lost what looked like everything he had just taken. I read up on spit up/vomitting in my What to Expect book and convinced myself that everything was going to be fine. When the spitting up continued I got worried and took him to the doctor. We switched formulas in hope that he was just not liking the formula...but that didn't work. I took him back to the doctor on Monday that 5th and they decided to have him tested for Pyloric Stenosis...something that I had as a baby as well as his Uncle Danny...so it was likely that he had it too. We went to Boone Hospital to have an ultrasound of his stomach done and it was pretty clear the he had it and would need surgery. So from Boone Hospital we traveled to the Unversity Hospital where he was admitted and preped for surgery. I was anxious and wanted the surgery done that night, but we were scheduled for surgery until noon the next day. I think I was so exhausted from the weekend of no sleep and stress of him vomitting everywhere that it didn't really kick in that he was having surgery until later. We survived the first night after he spit up all over the place and he settled in for the night and actually slept good. His surgery went well and he did really good coming back from being put under. But I think he was a little sore, tired and confused that all he wanted was for someone to hold him, so the second night definitely didn't go as smoothly as the first night. He was hungry also and he was only able to eat 1 oz of Pedialyte for the first 6 hours and then we slowly increased from Pedialyte to Pedialyte mixed with formula to straight formula. It didn't take him long to get back up to 4 oz of formula and he is going strong from there.

It's been a week since his surgery and he is taking formula well and slowly getting back on a schedule. I am excited to say that he slept in his room alone last night and did a great job! We were so close to getting him to sleep through the night before he got sick, but soon enough he will get there. He starts going to the sitter's in a week and maybe by then we will have him on a better schedule.