bleughhhhh

[k8bailey]

This isn't a question, I just need to have a bit of a moan and maybe get some sympathy. I'm fed up my beautiful 20 week old baby has duodenal stenosis, which basicaly means she sick alot.

Todays beeen especially bad, she's been sick more than 30 times today not huge amounts but we're both soaked, she smells and I've run out of clean dry clothes. I feels so useless theres nothing I or anyone can do for her right now.

I know it's not her fault but its so frustrating.

I just needed to get that off my chest and now I can go and carry on mopping up the sick and try to stay positive so that she can't see how much its getting to me today!

[Schutzengel]

Poor you. You certainly have my sympathy. What does the doctor say about it? Is there anything they can do to make the poor little mite more comfortable? Have they come up with any suggestions for resolving the problem? I'm so sorry for both of you. You must be so tired. Hope you feel a bit better for having a good moan. I'll be thinking of you.
Bless you.

[sara3]

I have no words of wisdom but I'm sorry for both of you. beuuuuuuurghhhhh indeed! will she grow out of it?

[sara3]

sorry, there should have been an L bleeeeeuuurghhhhhhhh!!!

[ethandron]

hello k8. i well remember being covered in sick all the time, our eldest (now 29) was diagnosed with pyloric stenosis when he was about 5 weeks old, and it has similar symptoms. all the photos we have of him as a small baby have dollops of sick down him, and any adult holding him is swathed in a bath towel to try to keep the sick off. i don't know what the prognosis is for your baby, i imagine she'll need an op at some point? i know it's very disheartening when you want to dress your lovely little girl in pretty clothes and then she's promptly sick all over them, and you, so why not stick to easy wash and dry babygrow type clothes for a while. there are some really cheap but nice ones around, and at least you'll be able to change her lots if you buy in loads of them. keep your chin up, it'll get better as she gets older.

[redcrx]

Just want to send you hugs K8.
I hope that it doesnt go on for too long hun before she has the required surgery and that bubs is happy and smiley even if pukey.
xx

[petal54]

i really know what you're suffering,my son had similar @ 6 weeks old,now a strapping 22yr old,he also suffered alot with ent when he started school,fine now.i also had the same,so my mum went through it 2's.all should be fine,all the best

[k8bailey]

Aww thanks for listening everyone! I'm feeling a bit better now, well cleaner anyway! Nancy's finally asleep. I think maybe she's not very well today and thats why its been so bad.

I'm not exactly sure what the docs are gonna do for her. It doesn't look like she'll just grow out of this. She's got to have a barium meal on Nov 10th and then hopefully we'll find out a bit more. They've said she'll probably need an op and I assume it similar to the one for Pyloric Stenosis.

This whole process of getting a diagnosis has been so slow, she's not being treated as an urgent case as she hadn't lost any weight untill this week. Not that my HV noticed/cared!!

I think I'm going to have take Ethandron's advice and stock up on babygrows. And while I'm shopping I might as well get some overalls for me & Mr B and some polythene sheets for the house!

Right enough feeling sorry for myself! Gonna get an early night, and hopefully it'll all look better in the morning!

Night .x

(ha ha just looked at the time - NOT such an early night then?!! LOL)

[Panic Button]

My son had pyloric stenosis, and I well remember the bath towels to catch the fountains of milk. It was an awful time. H

He is now a fit, extremely clever 15 year old who has just reached my height (6ft 1in)

You have my sympathy. Life will get better

[redcrx]

usual places for cheap babygros are the supermarkets who do some very pretty ones hun.

Theres a lot of bugs going around, little CRX threw p in Mr CRXs mouth this morning so that may add to her sickness.

youre obviously doing something right hun if her weight is only just starting to lower. Are you weaning her at all, im not sure if you can with that diagnosis or whether it helps but when you do start to wean youll need those plastic sheets anyway :)
hugs xx

[k8bailey]

Lol at Mr CRX I've not been that unlucky (yet)!!

Peadiatrician says don't start weaning her yet as it'll probably cause a blockage and make her seriously ill which in a funny way is a good thing because it probably means he'll have to fix her before Dec 11th when she'll be 6 months.

Thanks to everyone who shared their stories, its good to know I'm not alone with this. None of my friends of family have been through this before and tend to think I'm making the whole thing up saying that she looks well and all babies are sick! I don't blame them though as its exactly what my HV & GP tell me too!

Anyway... gotta go and start washing clothes, again!!

:-)