What's a little puke?
This evening right before Owain's bedtime I was feeding him his usual bed time bottle. I made a 4oz. bottle and put 1oz in another bottle with his second dose of penicillin of the day(for those of you unaware because Owain lost his spleen during surgery he has to have penicillin twice a day for anywhere to two to five years). He hates the taste of it.Can you blame him? so we found it to be easier to mix it with his formula. Anyways he drank all four ounces in ten minutes! Now if you know our little man he likes to snack when it comes to his bottle. Sometimes it takes an hour for him to drink four ounces. Now solid food is a different story he has no problems eating that in ten minutes. After gulping his bottles he acting like he was still hungry. So I made him another 20z. It doesn't sound like much but for him if he can drink 2 more thats huge! He gulped that bottle down like the first. I was so excited I couldn't believe he drank 6oz at one feeding! I was thinking to myself this is great. After all we really want Owain to pack on some more pounds. So he can get out of the one percentile for weight.
After he was finished I put him up on my shoulder to burp him. He was a little fussy. I figured he was fussy because he was tired and he had three shots today(I forgot to mention that twenty minutes before I gave him his bottles I gave him some Tylenol because he seemed he was in a little bit of pain from the shots.)
He burped as he continued to cry and rub his eyes. Then he made the face I know real well and then within seconds of making his pukey face he puked all over me. Not just a little bit of puke. We both were covered with vomit. My poor baby no wonder he was fussy his tummy didn't feel good. He puked a few more times on mommy. When he was finished I carried him and held my dress up so most of the puke would stay on my dress and walked to the bathroom as puke dripped all over the carpet!
I decided their was no point in just to give Owain a bath(this will be his second bath of the day). I was going to need one too. So I took our dripping wet with puke clothes off and hopped into the shower with Owain. This was Owain's first shower. I think he enjoyed it. He didn't fuss he just watched the water. By the time we were done getting clean. Owain was back to his usual self and smiling and laughing.
I don't know what made him throw up like that. I don't know if it was because he had Tylenol before his bottle and his penicillin or if he just had way to much formula in his little tummy. I am starting to wonder if maybe if his tummy is underdeveloped. after all he was born with his tummy in his chest. That would explain why he only takes in small amounts of formula at a time. That is a question I will be asking Dr.Zigman his surgeon during our appointment this Thursday.
After he was finished I put him up on my shoulder to burp him. He was a little fussy. I figured he was fussy because he was tired and he had three shots today(I forgot to mention that twenty minutes before I gave him his bottles I gave him some Tylenol because he seemed he was in a little bit of pain from the shots.)
He burped as he continued to cry and rub his eyes. Then he made the face I know real well and then within seconds of making his pukey face he puked all over me. Not just a little bit of puke. We both were covered with vomit. My poor baby no wonder he was fussy his tummy didn't feel good. He puked a few more times on mommy. When he was finished I carried him and held my dress up so most of the puke would stay on my dress and walked to the bathroom as puke dripped all over the carpet!
I decided their was no point in just to give Owain a bath(this will be his second bath of the day). I was going to need one too. So I took our dripping wet with puke clothes off and hopped into the shower with Owain. This was Owain's first shower. I think he enjoyed it. He didn't fuss he just watched the water. By the time we were done getting clean. Owain was back to his usual self and smiling and laughing.
I don't know what made him throw up like that. I don't know if it was because he had Tylenol before his bottle and his penicillin or if he just had way to much formula in his little tummy. I am starting to wonder if maybe if his tummy is underdeveloped. after all he was born with his tummy in his chest. That would explain why he only takes in small amounts of formula at a time. That is a question I will be asking Dr.Zigman his surgeon during our appointment this Thursday.
Oh... I'm so familiar with puking episodes like that. I guess you are right, CDH babies have under developped stomachs. My son, besided his CDH has bad reflux, so that won't help. He takes small amounts of formula, even though he's 14 months old, he can't drink more than 150 ml per take (that's if he drinks too much), he usually drinks 4 oz.