What a Day

Kaitlyn had a rough day! I took her to the pediatrician because we were concerned about her projectile vomiting. When it first started, we thought that babies spit up - so it must be normal. But the more it happened, the more we realized that it couldn't be normal. When she would throw up - it would be all over her and all over us! Everyone would need a change of clothes. I began to think - what is the point of a burp cloth? There was no burp cloth in the world that would cover this stuff.

The pediatrician was concerned with her weight gain. The doctor thought she should be weighing about 9 lbs, 11 oz by now. But she only weighed 8 lbs, 10 oz today. The doctor was certain that she was suffering from reflux, which was causing feedings to be difficult and for Kaitlyn to not eat as much as she should. However, she was also concerned that there could be something more.

We were sent for an ultrasound to test for pyloric stenosis. I won't even bore you with what that is or what it would have meant because luckily, the results were negative. The radiologist then wanted to perform a barium swallow test. Poor Kaitlyn had to drink this nasty chalky stuff from her bottle and they took x-rays of it as it travelled through to her stomach. I stood at her head and fed her the bottle while the technician held her arms and the radiologist held her legs and did the x-rays. Luckily, she wasn't very fussy and drank very well (she was hungry)! In fact, she was really good all day.

For now, we were given pepcid to give her and told to add rice cereal to the milk. But the pediatrician was going to call me tomorrow and there might be more she wants to do. I'll post more if she does. Hopefully she will be exhausted from her day and sleep well tonight because last night was rough on mom...

Here's a picture of her sitting in the waiting room for the ultrasound: