Feeling Better

Callia is feeling much better. She woke up Friday morning feeling better, and did not throw up. She was talking up a storm like her usual self, which was a good sign. At first she was ready to get out of the house and talked about all the places she wanted to go, but when she got up off the couch to get dressed and walked up to her room, she changed her mind. She said she was dizzy and her head hurt. She didn't even want to go later on when she had the opportunity to go to lunch with MeMaw, which she hasn't been able to do in a couple of weeks. Mom did come here to eat, though, and while she was here Callia went up to go to the bathroom and felt nauseated while she was up there. Poor baby. :( That night I did take her out to go to Tropical Smoothie and she rode in the shopping cart while I picked her up some rice milk and other snacks at the grocery store. We were gone about an hour, and Thad and Nathan stayed home. It was very nice to get out of the house with her, and see her appreciating it. She is sipping rice milk even now. Not being able to drink milk or eat cheese because of her sensitive stomach has made her crave it, and she has been enjoying the rice milk a lot. She is still a little weak but I think totally over the sickness.

This afternoon she goes in to the doctor for her preschool checkup and most likely some vaccinations. The appointment was originally for last Tuesday but she was too sick to go.

I think I will be asking the doctor if we can get another prescription for Thad's reflux medication (Zantac). He had run out and hasn't had it for about a month now. He hadn't been throwing up (except baby food while he was sick), but now he is not sleeping unless he is with me, which is exactly what was happening when he was hurting from the reflux, and it seems like he is totally over being sick. This morning he spit up breast milk just like he used to do. Hopefully he will start sleeping better again. The only way Thad will sleep at all is in bed with us, believe me, I've spent a lot of time trying to lay him down in his bed. Nathan and I have been sleeping very poorly and last night he slept on the couch because of how crowded the bed has been. I talked to him on the phone this morning and he said it was the best he has slept in a long time and he feels great! I feel like I hardly slept at all, even though it wasn't so crowded without Nathan. I missed Nathan and Thad kept waking up fussing over and over all night.

It makes me think of how hard it would be to have a baby who was constantly plagued with major health problems. Thad has had a couple of issues but they are minor. I have heard of things that made babies constantly cry in pain. Wouldn't that be heartbreaking?