Au naturale.....Monday miracles

I sometimes wonder if my days and nights will always be filled with clean-ups of bodily fluids. Maybe most moms wonder this, tell me I'm not alone in my midnight laundry and bathing forays.

Ellie must be allergic to the new antibiotic she's on - she threw up last night. I bathed her at 2:30, changed her sheets, and tucked her back in bed.

The next adventure needs a little background: the oncologist believes that Ty's nausea is related to stomach acid production during the night. He's usually nauseous first thing in the morning. We tried hooking him up to a feeding pump during the night in an effort to keep something in his stomach. It didn't work. He threw up again this morning (entailing a major cleanup, sorry TMI). I guess we'll be starting him on Prevacid. Sigh......

After getting him situated, I checked on Ellie again. I happened to catch her mid-spew and ran her into the bathroom. She had been very tidy in her sickness and left deposits in different spots on the blankets - she had escaped any collateral damage. Thank goodness for small miracles!

I changed her sheets again and tucked her in hoping for a bit more sleep myself but I heard her talking in there. Wow! the smell in her room nearly knocked me over. I placed her on the changing table, took off her jammie bottoms and huh?

No diaper! No poop! I wiped her up, put on a fresh one and found her messy diaper in her bed. She had taken it off, put her pants back on, and was only slightly the worse-for-wear. Another small miracle! I wonder how many more small miracle and sets of sheets today will bring?