At 10:15 this morning Vicky decided enough was enough and that she was to take Oliver in to A&E.

Simon raced home from the office and met Vicky, Oliver and Clare who had just been ushered onto the examination room.

Oliver was almost immediately given 86ml of saline solution to improve his hydration levels.  Then he was properly examined and we were moved into the children’s ward at Pinderfields.

He had an ultrasound and this confirmed all thoughts – Oliver was indeed suffering from Pyloric Stenosis.

We are now waiting at Pinderfields for a bed to become available at Leeds General Infirmary, at which point we will be transferred and the operation prepared for.  In the mean time, the doctors are presently ensuring that Oliver has enough liquids in his system, and that his blood levels are all correct – they are presently not quite right – in fact they indicate that the issue has been prevalent for about 7 days or so.

Vicky is staying over tonight with Oliver and Simon has come home to spend time with Elliot and take him to school first thing tomorrow.

More as we know more ….

So following a lot more sickliness over the last couple of days, we decided that it would be smart to go and see the doctor.  Something is clearly not right and while we have definitely over considered the whole affair, Vicky decided to get him in to see the doctor today.  The prognosis is that there is a very real possibility that the little guy has Pyloric Stenosis.  He has what ????  Well, one of Simon’s cousins had a similar complication when he was just a few days old, and apparently this is a hereditary situation.

We are now waiting to hear from a paediatrician to see what happens next.  In the mean time we will be getting onto BUPA to see if we can move the situation forward to get the poor little guy out of the pain that he is so clearly in.  As a point in case, he has begun to get really quite upset just after bringing the milk (+ stomach acids) back up.  Can’t say we are surprised really – this is stomach acid that is coming up – so it really must be burning the passages all the way up.  It is certainly getting stronger in stench as the days are passing by.

The good news is that we already decided to cut the quantity of milk but increase the frequency of delivery – this is clearly a smart strategy if the diagnosis is confirmed.

The bad news – this is only going to get worse until the operation clears the issue up, and following which normal service could be resumed 🙂

Will update as soon as we know more…..

Simon’s turn in staying up feeding etc last night – Oliver unloaded most of his 4oz feed on Vicky @ 11pm.  BIG clear up job – is amazing how far the splashes actually get.  There were four individual jets of spew made their way north of Oliver’s throat and then spread out evenly over the bedroom floor.  V thankful for laminate flooring 🙂

Simon managed to get wind out after just about 1 hour of attempts, and so got to sleep just after 1:15am.  We were up again @ 4:40am, and asleep by 6:15am following a 1oz unload.  Awake @ 8:30 am for more milk.  It definitely felt like Simon was simply loading a milk regurgitating machine / pistol overnight 🙁

Vicky went out to get some Dr Browns bottles to give those a try, since we have read that these should help.

Following feed #1 with those bottles, we are still unloading the milk and while it does not feel as much as overnight, it is definitely a whole heap more than two weeks ago.

Gut feeling is that he has a similar cold to the one that Elliot and Mummy have presently.

The really irritating factor is that we can get plenty of wind out at half time, but it seems that when the final whistle goes at full time, he is only interested in leaving the field and not the wind.

We continue to persist…..

Elliot is definitely feeling better today, although is not entirely rid of the cough etc.

Granny Rust (and gang) came over today to see the boys.  Think they found the most amusing part was when Oliver unloaded 20% of his lunch onto the dog.  The dog (Max) was not in the slightest bit bothered it seemed, and actually was rather surprised to find a source of nourishment on his right hand side of his coat.  Pepsi also found this new food source appealing…… NICE !

Simon has been up to Edinburgh this week on Monday and Tuesday, and typically Elliot has picked up a nasty little cold and cough, and Oliver has continued with his sickyness.

We decided to swap back to the SMA Gold to try ot reduce the sick – the great news is that it hasn’t really worked 🙁

Fortunately it is not every feed that he unloads, but it does seem all too regular.  The little monkey is awfully pleased with himself following the unloading exercise.

The health visitor that Vicky took Oliver to see today (OK so it can’t be a health visitor given that they are not actually visiting 🙂 ) was not particularly helpful when Vicky asked for advice on how to handle the sickness issue.  The good news is that he has put a good amount of weight on in the last two weeks – he weighs in at 9lbs 14oz today – 13oz up on two weeks ago 🙂  So the sickness is clearly not having a significant negative impact.

The damned Conservatory is still leaking – the guy came round today, and tried to make an excuse why he couldn’t look at it solo – Vicky was not having any of it, and so he did take a look, and found the leaking component – we even had to suggest using the hose pipe to mimic rain water to see if he could figure out where it came from – it worked (surprise !) and he has now sealed the area off, and will (apparently) be back on Monday to put the internal trims back on.

We went to Nursery last night to parents evening – our VERY FIRST parents evening.  Elliot is doing pretty well – he is slowly getting involved in group things, but still will not wear an apron or join in with the sing along sessions.  Sounds awfully like Simon when he was young … 🙁  He also is not keen on books it seems !!! He LOVES books – we definitely could not understand that so we have agreed to take some of his books from home in to nursery.   He is also learning to share toys and apparently understands rules and why they are important – he is not sharing that understanding with us at home quite as well 🙂  We are also considering extending his stays to one and a half full days – up from two half days.

We changed Oliver’s formula earlier in the week to try to help him out – he has been struggling to number 2 and looks like he will burst a blood vessel in his head when his pushes. With him having the red complexion, it probably looks far worse than it really is, but Vicky did some research and found that “Aptomil” *may* be a better alternative to SMA Gold that we have been using.

We are now 48 hours into it, and he is definitely NOT struggling to unload his unrequired (left over) food (small quantity in each nappy and the smell has reduced drastically), BUT has thus far unloaded it twice orally all over Daddy and the bed 🙁  Yes, as funny as it may be, changing the bed sheets every day is not a favourable option, and for some reason, Simon is not prepared to sleep on rubber sheets.

We will continue with the new food until we run out of it, as it has so far been the same feed (very first one after night time (3 – 4am) big feed) where the prompt ejection notice has been served.  We are kind of wondering if he takes too much on that 3-4am feed and of course doesn’t really bring much wind back up, hence is a waiting milk implosion.  The flatulence is slightly down which (I guess) means it has to come up, and is now bringing the [slightly digested] milk up with it 🙁

Elliot has woken up this morning (early) with a temperature – two teaspoons of Calpol, and literally within 3 or 4 minutes, he is fighting fit – incredible stuff.

Tiredness kicked Elly’s ass yesterday – he slept for about and hour in the car, and then fell asleep on the dining room floor as we were trying to suggest he ate some tea – it was only 6pm.  He was in bed and asleep by 6:15pm !!