an unpleasant milestone

Well, I just had a motherhood first..... (a little gross...don't read if you have a weak stomach!)

I went in to check on our little one before I went to bed. I walked in there and it smelled really bad. At first I thought she must have a stinky diaper, but then I realized it wasn't that smell, it was throw-up smell. Then I remembered that after I put her down at bedtime and left the room I heard her cough a really loud, hard cough. But then she coughed just a little regular cough, so I didn't think much of it.

Well I went to get a flashlight and sure enough, at one end of her bed, there it was. She was asleep at the other end. So I got my husband (who was up all night last night at a lock in, mind you, and really wanted to go to bed!!) and we went in and got a clean sheet and matress pad out of the dresser, then I picked her up--she woke up but was really groggy. It was all matted in her hair--nasty!!!! So I took her into the bathroom and started a bath--she was quiet and still, just staring at the water, probably wondering what in the world I was doing, waking her up and giving her a bath in the middle of the night! (okay, so it was 10 pm, but that's the middle of her night, anyway!) She was SO good the whole time...getting her undressed, putting her in the tub... except when I rinsed her hair, when she cried pretty hard. She normally hates that anyway, and being half asleep and probably not feeling great made it 10 times worse. I had trouble getting all of it out of her hair, and she was crying...that part wasn't fun at all. I got her out and she was shaking she was so cold and crying. I held her for a long time as she calmed down and I tried to warm her up. Then I got her dressed and she started covering her eyes playing peekaboo with the two of us (he had just finished changing her bed and was talking to her), so she had cheered up.

Can you imagine if I hadn't gone in--she would've slept in that all night! Poor girl!!! She ate a TON for dinner (because she hadn't eaten much earlier in the day) and I think when she coughed so hard that time, some of it must've just come up. I don't think she's sick--at least I hope not. She did feel kind of warm when I first put her to bed and I gave her some tylenol just in case.... she wasn't acting sick, though.

I sat down with her in the rocker and offered her water, but she didn't drink it. I rocked her a bit in the dark and she was yawning. I said, "Are you ready to go nigh night again?" and she said "Okay," (remember, I said last night she doesn't answer "okay" to that question?!?!? I guess in this circumstance she does!) so I put her back in bed with her other blanket and she didn't make a sound. I cleaned the bathtub and am washing the load of the sheets, blanket, PJs, etc. now.

So that was my first throw up experience as a mother--not a particularly fun milestone, I have to say! Won't be the last, I'm sure. And Daddy was a good sport and didn't even throw up himself from the smell, even though he did feel sick to his stomach (I did too a little bit, but I was so concerned about her that it didn't really bother me too much).

Now I can't sleep....worried that she might be sick. I hope it was just a full tummy.