{"id":924,"date":"2012-08-17T09:06:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2012-08-27T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:29:00","slug":"horton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/post924","title":{"rendered":"Horton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s not one thing going wrong right now, it&#8217;s another!<\/p>\n<p>In my last post, I mentioned that we discovered that Evie has GERD\/acid reflux. Before you think I hastily rushed to this conclusion to medicate her, let me show you some of the symptoms she was exhibiting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spitting up <em>(increasingly more in the past 2-3 weeks)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Irritability during or after feedings <em>(particularly in the evenings and night!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Coughing\/ sputtering during eating<\/li>\n<li>Refusing to eat<\/li>\n<li>Crying when placed on her back, especially after a feeding<\/li>\n<li>Arched her back while crying\/feeding<\/li>\n<li>Choking after some feedings- particularly bad Thursday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Spits up forcefully, causing stomach contents to shoot out of her mouth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After last week, this was just getting worse and worse.\u00a0 She had a nasty choking episode at 2:00AM friday morning, then a forceful vomit later on in the day. She she then had a bad night Saturday, slept very fitfully.. and Sunday was just a mess. She forcefully threw up around 5:00-6:00 pm, and then 1:30 am (1:30 one was particulary bad, but both had vomit coming out of her nose and mouth and was most of her feeding).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot they recommend you do, like keeping the baby elevated after feedings for 15-30 minutes, smaller feedings, sleeping in a car seat or adjusting the baby&#8217;s crib to a 30 degree angle, but it wasn&#8217;t working.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s face it. Getting between 1-3 hours of sleep a night and getting covered in curdled baby vomit multiple times wasn&#8217;t working for me, either.<\/p>\n<p>Monday we were able to meet with a pediatrician, who agreed with our assessment that the fussiness was mainly in part to what appeared to be acid reflux. She wasn&#8217;t too concerned, since Evelyn&#8217;s been gaining weight rapidly, but she could tell, even in the appointment, that Evie was a little fussy and in discomfort from the issue. So she prescribed us some medicated drops for the reflux and told us to call in if we didn&#8217;t notice a difference within a week.<\/p>\n<p>Within 24 hours, we had ourselves a new baby. If I hadn&#8217;t been so sick with a cold, I would have slept marvelously in 1-2 hour stints throughout the night because this little girl was not nearly as fussy as she had been in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;all, when I see that doctor again, I might just hug her.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, remember that cold I mentioned? Well, Wednesday night, Evie started showing signs of being congested. I&#8217;ll have to put that down in her baby book. You know, where you put things like &#8220;Baby&#8217;s first words&#8221; or &#8220;Baby&#8217;s first time to crawl&#8221;? I&#8217;ll put down &#8220;Baby&#8217;s first cold: Wednesday, August 15, 2012.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just kidding. Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, like probably most first time parents, I was extremely anxious. There&#8217;s not much anyone can do for a cold, but should I take her to the doctor anyways? Blah blah blah. We called the office in the morning, and the nurse told us that if she didn&#8217;t have a fever (she didn&#8217;t) and if she wasn&#8217;t extremely fussy, then go with a humidifier and saline drops and bring her in if she got worse, a fever, or really fussy (though, before the acid reflux medicine, how would we have known differently?).<\/p>\n<p>Well, we didn&#8217;t have saline drops OR a humidifier, so that meant going on a field trip to Target with a sick baby. Yay! (Remember, this blog is a no-sarcasm zone&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, meet Horton. He&#8217;s our new humidifier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-925\" title=\"Horton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Picture-1-256x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Picture-1-256x300.png 256w, https:\/\/www.elisabethboothe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Picture-1.png 349w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"mapImageSjElement4_img\" src=\"http:\/\/target.scene7.com\/s7viewers\/dhtml\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" name=\"mapImageSjElement4_img\" usemap=\"#s7map_SjElement4\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He beat out a frog and a penguin during the in-store audition for the job, and has a special place next to the bed where I have Evie sleeping in her car seat. (He made a convincing argument that he&#8217;d go better with the jungle theme in Evelyn&#8217;s room, and that his nondescript gray was being true to type, not boring.)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t judge me for having conversations with animal-shaped humidifiers in a Target store until you&#8217;ve been sick for a week with a nasty cold and running on 1-3 hours of sleep a night. If you&#8217;ve been there, and you still want to judge me, then go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, if you&#8217;re going to be sick, might as well be sick with a bit of whimsy thrown in, yes?<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, please send Evelyn good thoughts so she can get better soon and enjoy being a healthy baby for a while, before the next calamity, like teething, sets in. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s not one thing going wrong right now, it&#8217;s another! In my last post, I mentioned that we discovered that Evie has GERD\/acid reflux. 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