Unhappy New Year

Yep, unfortunately the new year is not off to a good start. I really hope that's not a sign of how this year will be.

To start - Ben got blueberry's on tuesday and apparently those didn't go over well. He threw them up all night and then the next morning for his bottle he drank it all and then that came up also. Guess I should learn to monitor how quickly and how much he should drink on a really empty tummy that's upset. Since then he's not taken more than 3-4 oz a feeding with it mainly being only about 1-2 at most. Normally he's around 6 so it's quite a change. He's also not eating as much solids anymore which means he's probably losing weight. The only thing we can get him to take is watered down gatorade through a syringe. Fun times. That helped hydrate him enough yesterday to get the minimum wet diapers (yes there apparently is a minimum they should have, 5, or one every 4 hours). Oh - and he's refusing to nap now even though he used to take at least 2 decent naps before. At least he's still sleeping through the night, but I'm afraid that may not last either. It's like he's a different kid now. Crazy.

Then on Friday night I made a turkey with some bad oil which gave both Brian and I food poisoning so we were not feeling so hot come 2am Saturday. Brian got over it on Saturday afternoon, but I was not over it until late Saturday night. It was miserable on top of an unhappy kid. Luckily we were able to get Brian's mom to come over yesterday morning to help out so Brian and I could get some rest sort of. That was a major help and I'm not sure we would've been able to survive without her! Update - it appears that I did not try to poison Brian and I, instead it was the stomach bug which we must have got from Ben and then unfortunately handed off to his mom who in turn passed it around to a few other family members. Sorry!!!

So - if anyone has suggestions or ideas on how to jumpstart this new kid we have to get back the way he was I would love to hear it.

Happy New Year!