Abby, Zoë and Enzo

I called the dr. as soon as we got home as they had said that they wanted to see him again if he threw up anymore while we were down in Scituate, so in he went this morning.  We saw Mary, who said she thought he probably was at the end of it and told me to start the pedialyte regimen again and then work up to mixing half unflavored pedialyte with half breastmilk (to total 1oz.) to get some calories in him - he's lost one pound since Tuesday morning - and get his stomach accepting the breastmilk again by giving it in small doses.  She also gave me three pedialyte 'special' cups, which were clear with blue twisty straws, and they came with powder packets of pedialyte inside of them.  This way, even if Abby doesn't get this, she'll have a cool cup too.  She also gave me four of the anti vomiting tablets to take home and told me to give one to Zoë as soon as I got back to the car - Daddy and the girls were waiting for me downstairs in the car - and then in an hour I could start her on her own pedialyte regimen.

We swung by Wal-mart on the way home to pick up some more pedialyte and then I washed the cups and started Zoë and Enzo on their 10 minute intervals of drinking their small amounts.  They both kept these down after 2 hours so we increased the amount to 1oz.  Both of the kids were getting upset by now that they couldn't have anything to eat, unfortunately Enzo doesn't understand as well as Zoë can.  Another two hours went by without event, which meant that Zoë could have a couple of saltines and Enzo could start having half and half pedialyte and breastmilk.  Enzo drank some, but was pushing drinks away by now and crying for crackers.  Luckily Mary called to check in and I mentioned this and she asked if he wanted to nurse - I said, "Of course he does!" so she told me to nurse him for less time than I normally would and then offer him a saltine to distract him from his milk being taken away.  She said if he did well like that for the rest of today then he could nurse normally during the night.

I planned to sleep on the couch inclined with Enzo and the girls wanted to sleep in the living room too so we brought their toddler mattresses down and set them up in the living room to sleep.  Enzo had been sleeping and woke up around 8:30, nursed and went back to sleep.  He woke again, whining at 10:45 pm, and vomited.  At first I was very discouraged and scoured the web for anything about toddler vomiting.  I decided that the vomiting was probably because Enzo filled his belly beyond what it was ready for at the earlier nursing.  He's gone back to sleep and the next time he wakes I plan to let him nurse, but keep it to two minutes per side and then get him to sleep.