Date night...

I'm writing this on my laptop in a special parents room in the E.R at 3:10 AM. Sounds fantastic, doesn't it?

I know I said the next post would be all about Cayden, and while I do plan on dedicating a blog to my older baby, this one goes once again to the younger one.

For Christmas, my Mom bought Jeremy and I this ticket package to the Columbus Blue Jackets (for those of you who don't know, that's hockey.) Part of the gift was that she agreed to watch both kids. I was nervous about leaving her alone with both of them, but she was pretty insistent, and let's face it - Jeremy and I haven't been alone together in a very long time - let alone out and alone together. I was pretty desperate to go. I mean my Mom raised 3 kids, we were all closer in age than Eli and Cayden (my sister is the oldest, I'm the youngest, and Eli and Cayden are only slightly closer in age than we are.) She could deal, right? So I ignored the fact that my Mom is a lot older than she used to be, and we went out.

Things went OK. When we came home Cayden was still awake (at 11 o'clock!) and things were fine... Other than the fact that Eli had spit up while we were gone - so much that he choked on his own spit up and turned a different color, and Mom had to clear him out. Freaky, but honestly the spit up thing is a daily thing with Eli - it's never been so bad he's choked on it before, but hey, first time for anything, right? So I decided to keep an eye on him after feedings and chalk it up to reflux.

Jeremy sat down to feed him a bottle before bed. The second he takes the bottle out of Eli's mouth, Eli vomits all of it back up. That worried me a little - he's never spit up that quickly before, and while it's usually a decent amount of spit up, it really looked like he pretty much vomited it ALL up - which it's never been THAT much before.

This time I blame the formula. We're mainly breastfeeding but since Eli won't take it from the source, I have to pump. Most days I can't pump what he needs, so we usually end up giving him one bottle of formula. Eli always does worse on formula, and we had been playing with his formula to see if another type will work better. Similac regular does the worse - it makes him SUPER gassy and super spit up-y. So then we changed to Similac Sensitive, which he did better on, but there was still enough spit up to think it wasn't the winner. We thought maybe he's lactose intolerant as well as reflux-y, so we changed to the soy stuff. Jeremy had given him a bottle of the soy stuff in the morning with no reaction from him, but hey, maybe he developed a reaction.

So I go to my room to pump because Eli still wants to eat and I don't want to give him formula and have the same result. I pump a little and put it into a bottle for Jeremy to feed him while I finish pumping because Eli was hungry. Finish pumping like 5 minutes later and give Eli the rest of it. The kid doesn't even finish eating and starts to throw it back up, and it was projectile - shot all over me.

He's spit up with breast milk before. But it's never been that bad. And, he's had his spit up night, but the amount he was spitting up was just insane.

So we call the pediatrician. She tells us to go to the ER. Which we are now sitting in, and I will probably still be sitting in until Eli hits his first birthday.

So, if for some reason you're awake and reading this, please pray. Pray that our little beeper thing beeps (that means our room is ready) and pray that they find nothing wrong with Eli (in which case I'll be irritated that I waited this long, but still so very happy that my little guy is fine.)