Puke and Poopy Pants (for real)

Olivia has officially had her first stomach virus. Oh, wait, not had, HAS, as she still has it. Chuck woke me up from a sound slumber close to 12:00 Friday night. He needed some help, as he said that Olivia had gotten sick. I was not prepared for the regurgitated smell of vegetable beef baby food that was literally covering Olivia's entire mattress. When I say covering, I mean covering, everywhere. Olivia was also covered, head to toe, in her puke. Nice. We quickly got into the bath, changed, and went back to bed only to have Olivia vomit the rest of the contents of her stomach within about 2 minutes of laying down. Needless to say, I remained up with Olivia on my lap sleeping. I tried to put her down twice more, but both times she vomited and began gagging the second her head hit the mattress. She did finally lay down around 4:45, but was up for the day by 6:00 a.m.

Fast forward to Saturday morning. Chuck gave Olivia her bottle (not a good idea) which she promptly vomited everywhere. She also had a low grade temp of 100. Later that morning we ended up going to the doctor, who prescribed Pedialyte and then told me what to do once she was able to keep the Pedialyte down. Luckily, Olivia was able to keep all of her Pedialyte down the rest of the morning and all afternoon. She was able to eat some applesauce for dinner and even had a Pedialyte/formula cocktail at bed. However, by 6:00 p.m. we were dealing with full fledged diarrhea. Even nicer.

Fast forward again, to Sunday morning. Olivia slept through the night, but when she woke at 5:45 a.m. she had horendous diarrhea. By 11:00 a.m. we had gone through 4 sleepers and had already taken 2 baths. Olivia was still able to keep her cereal and applesauce down, as well as her Pedialyte/formula cocktail. Because she had diarrhea so bad, I wanted to continue with the Pedialyte, which she then refused to take. Grr. Her diarrhea (let's see how many times I can add that word to my blog) continued throughout the day, but the vomitting had stopped. So we thought. After eating some bananas for dinner (the doctor said it was ok) and having another poopy diaper, Olivia decided to spice things up and puked up her entire stomach. On to sleeper #5. Olivia also developed another low grade temp off 100 and continued to poop.

Fast forward to right now. Olivia is currently sleeping, probably with poopy pants by now and I fully anticipate a blowout that requires a bath in the morning. The good news to all of this. Olivia is honestly in a wonderful mood, laughing and smiling. Though she spends most of her time on my lap sleeping and cuddling. The other piece of good news, all of this, and I wouldn't trade motherhood for anything.

For those of you who don't know, I have been calling Olivia "poopy" or "poopy pants" for the past few months for some odd reason. I guess the name is fitting now!

Diarrhea (I just wanted to say it one more time).