This Past Week Was History in the Making
Yeah, no, seriously. I'll talk about this for decades. Our wee family went through the fire this week and are just coming out the other side. Just something that had to happen. Thankfully, our co-living partners were gone all this week.
On Sunday, Liam came down with a stomach virus. Sick, ick. Vomiting everything everywhere. It was in the 90s and I was very concerned about dehydration since he was vomiting so much. He started nursing every 2 (remember that TWO) hours. Usually, he nurses every 5 or 6 hours.
What does that mean? It means my body produced more milk to keep up with him.
Fast forward to Wednesday. He's finally gone 24 hours without vomiting. He's eating some crackers and rice.
And he decides he no longer wants to nurse. Ever. E - V - E - R. Ummm...try not peeing for two days, maybe you'll understand?
Well, in any case, we dealt with it. He is now officially weaned (as if I had anything to do with it!!). You should have seen him. I'd try to nurse him, and he simply looked at me as if I were an alien. He ended by literally pushing me (OW!) away. Took me 2 days to be totally convinced.
However, another nice side effect of Liam being weaned (are you sitting down?) is that ... drumroll please ... he is sleeping through the night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There aren't enough exclamation points in the world for that.
Phew. Now we just have to get him to like his crib. But, hey, I'm liking life right now, so, we'll just wait on that one for a bit.
Oh! I can wear dresses now! Yippee!
Editor's Update: Liam's iron level is now normal! Double Yippee!
Truly, an auspicious week.
Comments
i'm so happy that you and the baby are well and weaned. :) why couldn't you wear dresses before, though? just because it was winter?
Posted by: leila | June 16, 2008 3:28 AM
Wow! What a week of milestones, Mara! I always felt bad that Petunia was weaned when I got meningitis (although she did give me the virus) and had to stay in the hospital for five days when she was almost ten months old; I wonder how it would have gone otherwise. I guess it's good that Liam was so decisive about it, although it sounds painful. I hope you bought some cabbage!
Posted by: merseydotes | June 16, 2008 4:13 AM
Yay!!!!!!!! I'll give you a few more exclamation points! :) On this side: 4 weeks to go! :) more belly pics have been posted if you want to take a peek. :) John's taking tomorrow off to finish setting up Grace's room. He was gone for his 2-week annual training (gee, I love the military) and is now back and buckling down for the home stretch ;) Anyhoo, the rest is too personal for the blog ... if I get a chance, I'll email you (better yet, I'll call you/you call me). TTYS!
Posted by: Crys | June 16, 2008 4:26 PM
A J-O-B! Now that's what I'm talking about! And let's not pass over the fact you've finally gotten a good night's rest!!! Yahoo for the Fojas Family! Send along your email address to me, I don't think I have it...I don't have your phone number either!
Posted by: Katharine | June 17, 2008 9:23 AM
Mara!! I'm sorry to hear that Liam was ill, the vomiting baby thing is very not fun. The 'can somebody please drink this milk before I explode!' thing is also not a party, so you've really been through quite a weaning drama :) However, I do agree, there is nothing like slipping back into those dresses. In fact, when Shiori finally stopped drinking (a slow and halfhearted drop out at about 19 months!) I wore ONLY dresses for quite a while :)
Biggest congratulations go to the improved sleep situation. That is really the best news of all.
much love to you all,
amelia
Posted by: amelia | June 18, 2008 4:48 AM
A taste aversion to breast milk, that's high powered weaning!
Posted by: Mendon | June 18, 2008 5:29 AM