Emilia ill

So much for looking forward to the weekend.  At midnight on Friday Emilia woke up crying so I brought her upstairs thinking she must be hungry.  As I was preparing her bottle she vomited a little bit, but then started crying really hard which is really unlike her.  I picked her up and she started retching again on me and big clumps of sick come up.  The kitchen was quite dark and then clumps looked greeny brown, something that we have been told to look out for.  If Emilia were to get a blockage, this is one of the very serious signs.  I just panicked and shouted down the stairs in my very stern teacher voice that Jens had to come up NOW!!  He came and took Emilia, meaning I could inspect the lumps which turned out to be a mixture of green beans and avocado.  My little Emilia is not chewing her food!  After that she seemed ok, so we gave her the bottle and put her to bed. As always I was worried.

After about 10 minutes she started moaning again and then crying so I picked her up and she projectile vomited about four times before I could get to the bathroom. I think I was a bit in shock and Jens had to say to me about three times, "Paula, go to the bathroom!".  We got there in the end and I managed to get her cleaned up, Jens tackled the bedroom with poor little Eva standing up in bed crying, obviously wondering what was going on! We could not settle Eva. As soon as Jens got close Emilia would be sick again.  It was chaos.  In the end, all four of us ended up in our bed.  Emilia then puked all over it, leaving Jens on baby duty while I changed our sheets.

When that was done, Jens sat with Eva and I lay with Emilia, who every 10 minutes or so kept being sick again.  I felt so sorry for her.  All I could do was sit her up and catch what came up, she kept holding her arms out towards me whilst she was retching.  I felt so helpless.  In the end, Jens brought Eva into our bed and we were back to four in the bed, but Emilia's sick episodes were just too stressful for baby Eva so I took Emilia upstairs to the spare bed.  I kept managing to calm her but then she would sit up and be sick again.  By this time not much was coming up but it was still really scary for my little girl.

At about 3am she was able to get some sleep and at 5 she sat up and just grinned at me.  I fed her and she wasn't sick.  She then went back to sleep for another couple of hours.  She had diarrhea all day yesterday and today, but it does seem to be calming down.  She is eating and drinking so I think we can say she is on the mend.

So me and Jens have spent the weekend doing an insane amount of laundry.  I just managed to get the house clean and at 2pm on Sunday I have had my first shower of the weekend and Jens is in there now.   To round off our ill weekend, Eva woke up with a cold!  But so far no signs of anything else and we feel OK too.  This could have been a lot worse.

We are off to England on Friday and had planned to celebrate Christmas with Jens' Mum and Dad today :( But that will have to wait until another time.