Interesting day

Just keep in mind while reading, that we got the results back, and Finn is fine.

Finn had to go to the hospital today. He had a regular doctor appointment where Jim and I voiced our concerns about Finn's recent habit of "puking his guts out." Since it was a behavior change and because of the nature of it, his doctor was concerned that it was a certain disorder (I have no idea how to spell it) that usually presents itself in the first 6 weeks of life (but with him, do you go by calendar or adjusted was the question). It is where the muscle between the stomach and the intestines is too tight and forces everything back up. If left untreated, babies become very dehydrated and obviously malnurtished. It was significiant enough that she asked if we would be available to go in today for an upper GI at Children's. They got us an appointment for an hour and a half later, even though there weren't any openings...that was a good clue that this is very serious. Finn's doctor had a surgeon on call that she would contact today if this disorder presented itself during the upper GI.

So, Finn and I stopped at home (we had to get some supplies since he had puked his guts out on the way to the doctor!) and headed to Children's. Weren't we just there...oh, yup, on Monday! We got there and had to wait almost an hour, which sucked because Finn was starving by this point and I couldn't feed him. Poor guy. The doctor performed the procedure (watching Finn via X-ray...I think...drink a solution to see what his stomach did with the liquid) and felt confident enough to tell me that he did not have the disorder! Thank God. He has had enough surgeries already!

But, now we don't know what is causing this excessive vomitting, so he has another appointment tomorrow at MN Gastroenterology for a pediatric GI, which I think is a lower GI. The appointment takes between 60 and 90 minutes. I just hope we figure out what the problem is so we can fix it.

On a much brighter note, Finn now weighs 9 pounds 1 ounce!!! This is amazing to us since he hasn't really been keeping much of his bottles down. I can't believe our little 1 pound 15 ounce newborn weighs NINE pounds! Crazy. This weight keeps him over the 10th percentile. So, in the meantime, if Finn isn't able (or willing!) to take or keep a bottle down, his doctor said to just nurse. Maybe this is a perfect time to transition to 100% nursing!! I guess we'll see.

What a crazy day. You think you are just going in for a routine weight check and pow! The roller coaster ride continues.