Puke and Poop and Snot, Oh My!

I tried to warn them. Ryan threw up all over the floor in the middle of my daycare day last week. The night before he had a bad run in with my air conditioning vent (never take a diarrhea filled diaper off near a floor air conditioning vent). I had assumed it was just something he ate but when he threw up the next day I knew we were in for a lovely little flu vacation. I gave the parents the choice about whether or not to pick up their kids and only one took me up on it. The rest swore up and down that they wouldn't catch it and they were sure it was just something that was going around. Now it is Saturday a week later and I am getting phone calls from shocked parents who don't understand why their kids are sick.

Don't get me wrong. I have a wonderful set of parents right now. They are very considerate of my family's needs and respect anything I need them to do. It was probably my mistake for not just telling everyone that I was closing but even after 3 years of this I still hate closing in the middle of the day. I think people just don't realize that there are some things I can't control.

Today I am enjoying my first entirely vomit-free diarrhea-free day in over a week. I took Richard in to the doctors yesterday because even though he never really came down with this virus that badly he was still throwing up all his formula over a week later. So it turns out that he had rota virus and in young babies too much diarrhea apparently empties the stomach of the enzymes needed to digest lactose. I put him on a soy formula starting yesterday and picked up some infant probiotics that are supposed to replace the good bacteria that his stomach is missing right now. Hopefully after two weeks of this I can wean him back over to the regular formula. I'm really crossing my fingers that it isn't permanent. The kid can't go through life without ice-cream. He hated his first taste of soy formula but he seems to be tolerating it okay now and he is finally keeping his formula down. He has lost a pound since his appointment two weeks ago so he is now happily back to putting on weight.