If you've ever changed a baby boy's diaper, you know that you have to watch out. If you've never changed a baby boy's diaper, here's why you have to watch out. They will piss on you every. single. time. L is tricky about it. He makes me think he's not going to pee and then as I reach for the diaper or the cream or a wipe, he's all of the sudden peeing in his own mouth or all over a stack of clean laundry.
If it's not pee, it's spit up. He is constantly spitting up. And not just like a dainty little burp and some drool. It's like the vomit spoof on SNL where there's a hose of hidden liquid that appears to come out of an actor's mouth for 30 seconds while they try not to laugh. Only L's isn't a hose. It's his esophagus, and the vomit all lands on me. I started using a towel as a burp cloth.
It sucked, but wasn't that bad until last week when he started crying and didn't stop FOR 4 DAYS. 4 days of crying and whimpering and gas and vomit. And HE was crying and whimpering and gassy and vomiting too (buh-dump ching!) But no, really, he would fall asleep for maybe 30 minutes at a time, but even then, he was whimpering and grunting the whole time. Then he would spit up and literally scream. Eventually, he lost his voice all together and would just cry this pitiful little airy cry. Finally on Friday I took him to the doctor because I was exhausted and frustrated and just felt so bad for the little guy. She agreed with me that he has reflux.
Since then, he has medication twice a day and I am to keep him in an upright position for 30 minutes after he eats. Which, by the way, is a lot harder than it sounds, especially at 4 in the morning.
He's doing better now, but it's still not perfect. For some reason, in the wee hours of the morning, he seems to have a lot of difficulties falling back to sleep and also seems extra gassy at that time. I've cut back on dairy to see if that will help, but right now we have mutual crying/annoy Hubs sesh every day from about 5-6 a.m. Then if he is able to sleep later, I have to decide if I am going to sleep the day away and accomplish nothing, or get up, try to get something done and be tired and grouchy all day.
Hopefully his little esophagus sphincter will get in gear soon. And hopefully the medical community will agree that the word "sphincter" just sounds inappropriate and will come up with a new name for it.
Ah yes, I know the drill. I recently discovered that thanks to Mac's spit up while on his back that some would get behind his ears then smell bad. I recommend frequent washing behind the ears which I never understood before now. Huh.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Mac peed all over his own face not too long ago...that was a very stellar parenting moment.
Dude I get peed on all the time.....BUT in a single random act of awesomeness: the other day I totally caught it. I was pretty certain he wasn't going to pee, but when I went to look away, something told me 'look back'. I whipped the diaper back over it mid-pee and caught that shit. It was awesome!.....but it has only happened that one time :). Sorry about the reflux. Hope it gets better soon.
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