Update on peyton

Thank you Carrie for ?posting. My friend on the GPM board texted me today to see how we were going and I told her about what was going on. I didmt text too many people about was going on because it has been crazy and couldnt get on the Internet because we didn't ?have a lot of charge on our phones so I was finally ableI could get to the car tonight to charge my phone enough to get on here and GPM ? For the past 2 weeks Peyton has been spitting up and it was a lot and it sometimes was 1-2 times a day. We suspected acid reflux so her pedi put her on Zantac and a sensitive formula. It didn't seem to make a difference and people told us soy worked for them and so we tried that and put her back on Zantac. The soy still made her spit up but she seemed a little better but it made her very stopped up. Monday afternoon we changed her back to her original formula and she ate 4 ozs fine but then her 2nd and 3rd feeding she had about 2 ozs and threw it all up. We were worried so pedi told us to go to the children hospital.

Monday around 9 pm we got to the er and when we finally got back to a er room they did a xray and an ultrasound. After hours of her not eating she was dehydrated so they had to put an iv in her. Her veins are do tiny and the only good one they found was blowned after they drew blood they had to do it in her head. Thank goodness my good friend works af the hospital and she came down to check on us and took us out of the room. It killed me to see all these people poking on her and her screaming because they were poking and she was so hungry. I don't think I ever cried as much as I did these past 2 days.

Around 10:30 am on Tuesday we were admitted. She was able to eat some pedilight but she couldn't eat anything after midnight on Wednesday. Thisorming they did an upper gi test and found that she did have reflux and they were able to see her have an epsoide of one while doing the test. The good thing it was not getting in her lungs. They put her on prevcid and sedative formula. So far since 1:30 she has had 4 ozs amd has kept it down and is not acting in pain Luke she has the past 2 weeks. We have to stay again overnight and if she doesn't throw ?it up like she was doing the last 2 weeks we will get to go home.

I am praying the new meds and sensitive formula help. I wish they would have just put her on stronger meds without us having to go through all this, but I guess it was better to run tests and rule put other things. It has been a rough 2 days because she was starving and she wasn't allowed to eat so it has been a long 2 nights, but hopefully now that she can eat she will do better tonight.

I am also trying to pump and see what I can get out. We couldn't breatsfeed in the hospital and now I think it is because of the reflux and I had people talk me out of pumping, which I would not have listened to them, so it has been a month of mo feeding or pumping. I am getting a little out so maybe I can get my supply going. I would love to get it going to where I can do BM all the time but right now I may only do enough to get her through the day and then formula at night. I may not get enough to do anything but I am going to try. I regret that I gave up so easily before but hopefully I can make up for it and if I can't, I can't.

Hopefully we can bring her home tomorrow. I probably won't update till I get home to save on phone battery. Thank you for all your prayers. We are in the nicu and like I told my friend walking on the floor last night and seeing the kids I thank God mine is only here for reflux. I can't imagine what the patents of the other kids are going through. We ate in the best children's hospital in our state so she has been treated very well.?