So this morning, I walked in to get Aidan up to find that he'd thrown up all over his bed. "Oh my gosh! Are you okay Aidan??" was my first reaction. But to see him sitting there smiling, ready to start the day, my immediate thought was "What the heck happened?" I never heard him make any strange noises during the night, he never cried, complained, or even whimpered. The overwhelming smell and vomit covered pj's shocked me, "how could he have just gone back to sleep in this?? YUCK!"
I was all dressed to go to our MOPS meeting and I thought this was going to have to put a halt to that outing. I stripped the sheets, blanket, bunny, PJ's, etc. and scooped him up to get him dressed. He was in great spirits and I was baffled by the whole scenario. Last night, he'd refused to eat much at dinner but ate some yogurt and drank water right before bed. He did get a strange case of the hiccups, and he's had a runny nose with the new tooth coming in and possible cold lingering, so maybe something just caused him to gag the wrong way and, OOPS, there's dinner?? I didn't know. I couldn't figure it out.
Poor kid tolerated having his temperature taken but again, 98.6 degrees told me he was OK. I got him dressed, brought him down to breakfast and he readily ate his banana, pancakes and yogurt. I talked to Andy and a friend about it and we all agreed it seemed to have been a strange fluke. I brought him with me to MOPS and he was fine; ate his snack, drank his water and played with the other kids. I never, EVER would have brought him anywhere if I thought he was sick. It's one of my biggest pet peeves, when parents knowingly bring a sick child (or themselves) around other children. But after my consultation with Andy and the fact that he seemed completely fine now, I felt it was safe.
He's napping peacefully in his newly changed sheets and blanket. So strange... I have mixed feelings about the whole morning... How could I not have heard him throw up in the middle of the night? Should I have brought him out? Am I a bad mom? Ugh, I hate feeling guilty.
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Seems like you are being tried a bit more than usual.. hmmm... someone upstairs testing your tenacity and determination to "stick it out' for the next year, maybe? I am guessing Mama and Michele are thinking... "Are you SURE you don't want to come home to Florida to stay?"
You know I am teasing... but that is a lot in a week!
Wish I could be there to help!
Goodness-I am glad to hear that you and Aidan are fine-I suspect he was using his finger to teeth way back and hit the auto gag reflex when his tummy had a big air bubble and it all came up fast and no touble-he probably felt fine and luckily it all washes off-being a parent is exciting and full of weird challenges. You are a great parent and this should not shake your nerve! I hope you are having a fun weekend. xo
We were just thinking back in time over our 4 kids and remembered one of our weirdest overnight events-we did have a monitor-even that long ago:)Krsity was about 1 yr.-we had heard her wake us=laughing and scoothing around in her bed-we let her play a bit and then when we went into greet her the smells hit us first-quickly we realized she was happily finger painting everthing in sight like the walls,crib,sheets,her face,her toys,with the contents of her poopy diaper-she even had it in her teeth-ah yes we felt like awful parents-gross-she had pull off a mesy messy diaper and explored the world of poop-she did wash up aok-I felt worse than she did-Hang in there!!!!!! xo
The same thing happened to Rylen the other night! I felt so bad. When I went in to get her in the morning she had apparently thrown up in the middle of the night and slept in it. EW! I think she was coughing and gagged because she wasn't sick. So now every time I wake up at night I go check on her since I'm so paranoid!
Miss you guys like crazy!! Melissa
Great,Mom, thanks for posting that on the blog!!! Are you sure it wasn't Dave????
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