My poor darling Hunter was really sick the past 2 days. 

It started 2 nights ago, when we suddenly heard him cry out “Mama… Daddy… pat pat…” at 3AM (!!!) in the morning. Hunter simply doesn’t randomly wake up in the middle of the night, and has not done so for maybe 1.5+ years? So we were really confused in our dazed sleepy state, and lay there wondering what to do.

5 minutes later, he stopped crying out for us, and I thought “Yay! Just a nightmare” and rolled over and fell asleep.

Chris, thank God, decided to get up and check on him.

Hunter was boiling hot when Chris touched him, and he also realised Hunter had puked all over the bed. Hunter has NEVER vomited in his life, ever. So this was a very epic and panicky moment for us!

I had to pull off all the sheets and do a load of laundry right there and then (zzzzz..) whilst Chris cleaned Hunter up.

Once he was all cleaned up, Hunter puked AGAIN!!!!

More laundry. More cleaning Hunter up.

By this point, he obviously couldn’t sleep in a pukey mattress, so we had to bring him into bed with us.

Problem? Hunter has not slept in our bed…. EVER.

This made him unable to fall asleep, for 1.5 hours!!! Agony. His sleep was really disrupted since Carter is in a cot at the foot of our bed, and one of them would wake the other up, etc etc.

At 6:30AM, I was woken up by Hunter tugging at my arm, going “Mama, poo in potty!!!” repeatedly. Chris and I were sooo sleepy we hoped he’d just go poo in his diaper, but he refused to. So I got up and he had diarrhea 🙁 Gave him a bath and cleaned it all up.. and by that time, Chris and Carter were also up due to all the commotion.

Sigh.

He seemed on the mend yesterday though – very lethargic, but didn’t puke anymore. Slightly warm and some diarrhea but we felt he was getting better.

Then at lunch time, he projectile vomited… THREE TIMES IN A ROW!!! Once was straight inside my top… ewwwww. He also had several bouts of diarrhea. He was miserable. Hunter poos in his potty by himself every night, so crapping his pants does NOT make him a happy chappy. It was awful.

By this time, he was so lethargic and dazed (he hadn’t eaten and everything he drank was vomited/diarrhea’d out) he couldn’t even stand up or walk. He just sat or lay down, with glazed eyes and listless.. drifting in and out of sleep.

So off to the doctors it was.

Turns out he has Gastroenteritis.

He was prescribed some suppositories (to stop the vomiting) and medicine (to stop stomach spasms), as well as an electrolyte drink.

Pretty amazingly, the medicines worked in suppressing his vomiting/diarrhea and because of that… my really really whiny and clingy sick baby was restored to his normal cheery self, almost like magic. He woke up after his nap and drank a lot (keeping it all down), and even managed to stomach half a banana and a rice cracker before bedtime. I’ve NEVER been so happy to see him eat before!

I’m so relieved. Praise God for a fast recovery, at least so far.

Now praying that he will wake up feeling much better tomorrow..

And just totally random photos, taken over the past few weeks, to add a bit of cheer to this otherwise depressing blog post!