Last Sunday, Claire tried a new food. Having mastered rice cereal and bananas (she's more fond of the former than the latter), we thought we'd try something new and selected sweet potatoes (the baby food variety) as the winner. James and I bought the organic kind from Babies R Us, and Claire ate it for dinner very eagerly.
Later than evening, Claire was also super fussy due to teething (we think) so we gave her some Tylenol before going to bed. I was holding my little angle after she finished her formula just gently rocking when .... BLEEEEEEEEEECH ... she proceeds to vomit all over me, herself, the glider, and pretty much everything else in our vicinity. I sat there in horror for a second debating me options while Claire sits and grins at me. The girl has spit up before, but never this much. I didn't even know her stomach could hold that much food!
"James!" I call hoping he can hear me through the monitor. "Jaaaammmmmmeeeessss!" Nothing. I kind of pick her up but hobbling because I want to avoid driping any more spew and head to our bathroom. As I strip her down to put her in her bouncy chair (we keep it in our bathroom), I noticed that there was a red mark by her eye. Geez, not only did she throw up, she scratched her eye! I grab a face towel off the ring and wipe her down before heading to the changing table to re-dress her.
I get the diaper on (it's an increasingly difficult job as she becomes more mobile) and a sleep sack on when I notice the red mark has grown to cover her entire face. Horrified, I reopen her sleep sack and see that the blotchiness covers her entire body!
Later than evening, Claire was also super fussy due to teething (we think) so we gave her some Tylenol before going to bed. I was holding my little angle after she finished her formula just gently rocking when .... BLEEEEEEEEEECH ... she proceeds to vomit all over me, herself, the glider, and pretty much everything else in our vicinity. I sat there in horror for a second debating me options while Claire sits and grins at me. The girl has spit up before, but never this much. I didn't even know her stomach could hold that much food!
"James!" I call hoping he can hear me through the monitor. "Jaaaammmmmmeeeessss!" Nothing. I kind of pick her up but hobbling because I want to avoid driping any more spew and head to our bathroom. As I strip her down to put her in her bouncy chair (we keep it in our bathroom), I noticed that there was a red mark by her eye. Geez, not only did she throw up, she scratched her eye! I grab a face towel off the ring and wipe her down before heading to the changing table to re-dress her.
I get the diaper on (it's an increasingly difficult job as she becomes more mobile) and a sleep sack on when I notice the red mark has grown to cover her entire face. Horrified, I reopen her sleep sack and see that the blotchiness covers her entire body!
My options run through my head ... was it the sweet potatoes? The Tylenol? The formula? Can I give her Benadryl if she just had Tylenol? But what if she threw it up?! I run into her bath past James who's trying to clean off the glider and dunk her into the tub and sponge her off. Luckily, it seems to work even though she's still a little itchy in the head.Crisis averted, we noticed that there was some booming noises outside. The Castle Hills 4th of July celebration (yes, on 29th). Our little family unit gathered on the window seat in our dining room to watch the show and settle down after all the drama.
And bleeding scalp? Claire's head itches either due to eczema or cradle cap, so she's been scratching in a comical hand on head scratch-scratch-scratch kind of way. We're forcing her to wear a sleeper with mittens at night so she doesn't scratch at night, but we don't want to do that during the day because of developmental reasons. The girl is FAST and can get those little fingers into her hair in less than a second; one day, she managed to scratch herself on the scalp enough to make it bleed! That day, socks on the hands WERE the solution. Urgh ... she's a mess ... but oh, so cute. :)
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