First, Sunday we went to Dennys for breakast. Even though I brought some of his toast snacks with me, Sterling always likes to "sample" what mommy and daddy have. We give him a few bites of egg and some pancake and I gave him a bit of french toast and then gave him a small piece of cantaloupe and some of the strawberry topping and whipped cream from what was on my french toast and daddy gave him a bit of orange juice. Well, before we left I noticed that there seemed to be a bit of a rash starting on his chin, but didn't think much of it.

We get home, because I wasn't feeling all that good, and Clive dropped us off and then went back to do some Easter shopping for Sterling and pick up a few other items and I put Sterling down for a little nap. Well, he wasn't having any of it and after crying for a few minutes I went in and that was when I noticed some white bumps on his face and with further investigating I felt many bumps on the top of his head. So I called Clive and told him and he said to monitor him and if it got worse to call him back. Then I noticed a few bumps on his back and one starting on his tummy. Clive came back maybe 10 minutes later and looked at what was going on and we decided to try calling the ER at the Naval hospital and see what they thought. I tried twice and got no answer so we decided to just take him. By the time we got downstairs I noticed some bumps on his legs.

By the time we got to the ER which is just about 10 minutes away as the crow flies he was PLASTERED with them. I'm talking face, arms, chest, back, legs and he was itching like crazy. Doctors ended up giving him benadryl and a steroid to help. which it did.

No sooner did he get rid of his rashes on comes a stomach bug. Started about 11:30 monday night when Clive went in to give him his bottle and found his hair wet where he had spit up his formula and from that point on he couldn't keep his formula down. So Tuesday morning we took him back to the ER and the ER then got us an emergency pediatrician appt and the dr told us just to give him pedialyte until he could tolerate formula again. about late morning yesterday he started taking a few ounces of the formula and I upped the ounces throughout the day and he's back to his normal ounces now. 🙂 so we are hoping he won't have to see the dr again till his 1 yr shots which is only a couple months away!!!! 🙂

Sorry this is so long, but had a bit of catching up to do. Oh yeah, we found out we didn't get the loan for the house, but that's no biggy because we have a nice 3 bedroom apartment to move into one floor up from where we are now 🙂 we are hoping to start moving in this weekend and FINALLY have our household goods by next Friday! woot woot! Then we can finally settle in!

Take care everyone and hugs to those that want em!

Liz n Sterling n Clive

Hope Sterling is feeling better, maybe he is allergic to something he ate?

Good luck on the move. Love to all.

Ron

He definitely was allergic to something he ate but it will be hard to pinpoint what it was. You can only try to give him each thing separately if you want to find out. But then when you find it--boom--bumps everywhere. Just keep Benedryl on hand. My girlfriends son was very allergic to strawberries. His whole mouth swelled up. It was horrible. Bumps I can handle.

Sorry about the house. I always say things happen for a reason. There must be a reason why. Make the most of it and make the apartment your home for now.

Have a great day.

Lauren

j/k

Glad he's doing better, the poor little guy. The benadryl and the steroid probably upset his stomach.

When our son was young, he'd jet yak. A little guy two months old barfing half way across the living room, it was like a scene for the exorcist, and scary as hell the first time it happened. Then we figured out he was lactose intolerant and cut out all dairy (against the doctors orders) and he was fine.

yeah it was something he ate, but like Lady Hay said below because we gave him a whole bunch of things (though we can rule out the egg and the pancakes since he had them the week before and was fine) we can't quite pinpoint what it was though it was a toss up between the fruit products.

Thanks about the moving part blahhhhh I hate moving, though thankfully we won't have that much to move since a lot of the things we have as furniture is either borrowed from the Navy or rented so they will all be going bye bye and replaced with our own stuff which the Navy delivers and sets up! so it shouldn't be that bad, especially since we use the elevator to go up one floor and they have grocery carts here to help (if people are considerate enough to bring them back downstairs after using them). So it should go pretty quick!

Stefan

Thanks, it seems whenever I'm online I have a ton of other things to do and if I make it to the boards I just peek in certain threads to see what's going on but don't post. I was waiting on Sterling to wake up for his bottle and nothing much to do so I thought I'd post an update.

Yes, we plan on taking the benadryl with us whenever we are going out to eat from now on, plus we're going to be very careful what we give him. It was just unbelievable how much he broke out just in 10 minutes. I was like OMG we were telling the nurse and doctor it wasn't like that when we left the house it was just amazing. And through it all Sterling was still a good boy, he cried a bit, but that was just cuz he was so uncomfy, he's a real trooper that's for sure 🙂

And you are right about things happening for a reason. We are just lucky we really like it here and there was a 3 bedroom available. The livingroom is bigger, so is the kitchen and the master bedroom has its own bathroom yayayay lol. we are just looking forward to getting all of our stuff. Clive is especially worried about all of our cigars. I'll be happy to get Sterling's crib, his toys and his books and the rest of his clothes. Also, the rest of our dishes and kitchen stuff. Then I can really start cooking stuff lol.

lol about Denny's. I'm not that fond of Denny's either but there's no IHOP here 😞

Sterling wasn't pulling an exorcist with his bug. It was more along the lines of just spitting up, but just more frequently than he used to. He's been lactose intolerant since practically day one. We went through at least five different formulas before this one -which is alumentum similac. He used to get so much tummy problems with all the others he tried, this one he's hardly had any problems which I'm thankful for.

But all seems better now, just hoping it doesn't go around again. We are going to disinfect as much as we can so if there is any germs lingering we can get rid of them. Guess I shouldn't have bragged so much that he hadn't been sick yet lol.

Good luck and keep in touch.

thanks 🙂 well we pretty much narrowed it down, but we can't be sure. And he's too young yet to get him checked to see what he's allergic to. we really don't want to tempt fate even though we plan on carrying the benadryl with us whenever we go out to eat. All we know is that he's lactose intolerant and has very sensitive skin, where we can only use ivory soap and laundry detergent has to be dye free, fragrance free, same with his wipes. hopefully he'll outgrow it.

OUCH, but thanks 🙂 we could use it, been a bad month illness wise, but hopefully we'll now have a stretch of good health 🙂

How's that little guy of yours doing today? It's so hard when they are little and things like this happen. My baby is 10 now and it still breaks my heart everytime he doesn't feel well.

and yes we are enjoying ourselves here 🙂 the weather is great, the view we have is awesome and when we move upstairs it will be even better! We haven't made it to the beach yet, but that will have to wait till next weekend since Clive is having to work this weekend blahh lol. but I know I'm very happy here 🙂