After the dramatic recovery.

[rivka]

Okay, honey, take a sip of water.
Good boy.
Another one.
Do you want your juice or your water?
Do you want to drink from your cup or your bottle?
Take three more sips.
First water, then Blue's Clues.
Just take a sip. Just taste it. It's good.
Do you want to drink from the cup or use a straw?
One more sip.
Swallow.
Try just a little bite of the jello. It's tasty.
Look at Alex! Alex is eating her jello. Colin try a bite.
Can I put jello in your ear? In your eye? In your nose? ...In your mouth?
Okay, drink some water.
Little more.
Little more.
Good boy. Another sip.
First juice, then see-see. Colin see-see after juice.
Good boy. Another sip.
Try a little more juice.
No, Colin, you must drink. Drink now. Little bit.
Good boy. Another sip.

...Uphill, all the way, we got another pint or so of liquid into him between the hospital and bedtime. Not counting breastmilk, because Sunday's experience tells me that the only rehydration I can count on is the stuff I can measure. He woke up coughing this morning and threw up a little (in our bed, thank you Colin) but his diaper was heavy and wet so we seem to have the dehydration beat. And he doesn't seem particularly sick this morning.

I watched him this morning vigorously practicing his jumping and remembered that yesterday morning, even while I packed up to go to the ER, I told myself that maybe Colin was doing better because for a little while he sat up straight on Michael's lap. Yeah. At the hospital, stripped of his clothes, he looked like one of those TV commercials about how pennies a day can save the life of a child in a developing country.

The thing about babies and toddlers is that they get sick really fast and then they recover really fast. By the time you fully understand how sick they were, they may already be better.

Comments

[marydell.livejournal.com]

The thing about babies and toddlers is that they get sick really fast and then they recover really fast. By the time you fully understand how sick they were, they may already be better.

This is really, really true. I'm so glad he's feeling better and getting back to normal!

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Parenthood. Glad all is better. Also very glad you took him to the ER!

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I love my kids. But boy, am I glad they're past this stage, as adorable as they were then. It can be scary.

I'm glad you have had the good medical support that you have had. I'm very glad that Colin seems to be doing better today.

[ailbhe]

Internet hugs. Good luck.

Frozen rehydration

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's winter there, but have you tried the rehydration iceblocks? My kids were always so gobsmacked that I was offering them such a treat (usually in the middle of the night) that they ended to eat them. And the saltiness is not so apparent in the coldness. We had them in the fridge for months when the kids were little like Colin. Maybe worth a try. They are a godsend in a summer illness.
Hope things continue to improve.
Emma

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Any idea yet what, precisely, ailed him? I nearly died of starvation when I was younger than Colin is now--pyloric stenosis.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

It was just a garden-variety stomach flu that got out of hand quickly because he's so little. He'll be totally fine.