Sickie Boy

Sorry I haven't updated the blog since Thursday. Zac has been under the weather for most of the past week, and I didn't feel I had much new to place on the site. We thought he was getting over everything, as it hadn't been all that bad. He'd had some issues with being fussy and was a little out of sorts, but nothing awful. Then Saturday night he started having trouble keeping food down. We went through two outfits in pretty quick fashion while we were over at Katy's parents' house, so we headed home. Tried feeding him again about 9:00 that night and he couldn't keep any of that down, either.

We then switched to a sort of home-made Pedialyte mixture. Essentially it's water with a little bit of sugar and a tiny amount of salt. It's meant to give him fluids and keep him hydrated, along with a small amount of electrolytes, without the add-ins the actual stuff has, which might be rough on his tummy (I'm unsure on that part, but he has to go in for shots today, so I'll ask if he can take the real stuff). The real Pedialyte has citric acid and other things, not much, but we don't want to push it.

He takes this pretty well, and we fed him only that until late Sunday afternoon, when we decided to start incorporating formula again to the meals. He took two meals well with about half water mix, half formula, and seemed to be doing a little better. Last night at 11:45 or so, I tried giving him just formula. Yeah, that was a mistake. After he gave some of it back, I followed it up with about an ounce of the water mix and that seemed to settle his tummy so he could sleep. He then slept over five hours, which was a shock considering how little he's slept the past few days, but also a nice change for me. At that time, I fed him a little over an ounce of formula and two ounces of the water mix, and he was fine with that. Just a bit ago, we did about the same thing, though closer to half and half. Right now I'm limiting him to closer to three ounces per feeding instead of the 3.5 he'd been taking more often last week, just because he can't seem to literally stomach it right now. Hopefully he turns the corner here today and tomorrow so he can get back to eating regularly again!