Vom!

It’s 20 past 1 in the morning, and time for another musing! This time vomit - yay fun!

So I’m on the 1am shift and my daughter woken up early fussy, so I run through the check list, we go check the nappy, we’ve got some, not a lot but let’s change that out, next on to the food, now we stopped buying the pre made ready to eat formula when I did the maths, so I lovingly spoon powder and precise volumes of water to create her midnight snack. I try to feed her slowly but she gobbles it down, then promptly throws it all up, and screams at me like it’s my fault - which for all I know it is!

The question - do I need to re feed? Google has failed me, or perhaps I have failed Google, but I can’t find a search result that answers this question, everything is about kids who are sick, not babies who are greedy and guzzle a bottle faster than Han Solo can do the Kessel Run (that’s one for the Star Wars fans!)

I will stop writing this now to wipe sick off my ankle - not sure how it got there - and will pick this up again when I’ve annoyed a midwife in the morning.

Right so didn’t end up annoying the midwife in the end, if I’m completely honest I sort of forgot, I ended up putting my daughter on a boob (my wife’s, I’m not just randomly finding boobs), went to sleep and the morning brought a host of new things to figure out. It’s now days if not weeks later and I’ve relaxed a bit on this one.

My wife found a video of someone throwing tea spoons and table spoons of water on a baby grow, which really helped show that how much my daughter’s vomming is really minimal, although it may not feel minimal when it’s pouring over your hand!

This isn’t the video, but shows the same thing! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GdNU65bTuwo

It can be a bit terrifying in the middle of the night, and you feel your baby has just thrown up everything you’ve given them and then promptly screams at you, but what I am learning (really slowly) is babies, while they seem pretty helpless, are fairly resilient.

If you’re concerned that they still hungry after throwing up, feed them some more, they will either take it or not, or more likely throw it up again - that’s the clue to perhaps stop! If you’re really concerned because your baby is doing an exorcist impression then off to A&E you should go!

I’m now only six weeks in, and still figuring this out day by day, and sure tomorrow will bring a scenario that reinforces my insecurity that I know nothing - bring it on is all we can say!!