Pyloric Stenosis & Bronchitis

So this last week has been very eventful-in the not-so-much-fun way. :-( First off, they thought Madisyn might have Pyloric Stenosis. Pyloric stenosis is when they pylorus muscle (located between the stomach and the intestines) grows to thick and too big, so no food goes through. It all comes up. Since she'd be spitting up excessively for the last week and hasn't gained weight as she should, they thought it might be this. The only way to correct this is with surgery. That would mean that both of our kids would have had abdominal surgery already, Parker when he was 17 mo, and Madisyn at 3 1/2 mo. What is it with our kids?! So we put Madisyn on Pedialyte for 24 hours (that was fun), and then took her in for an ultrasound. She did so good during the ultrasound (considering she was starving-we had to not feed her for over 5 hours), and she layed there so cute and perfect. Thank heavens the ultrasound came back negataive! So now they're trying to rule out other things (we're trying medicine for acid reflux now) and we're trying a different feeding schedule too. Hopefully this will be the solution and we won't have to keep trying other things.

The day after the ultrasound, Parker came down with Bronchitis. He has been absolutely MISERABLE, with a fever of 105 at times. He bursts into tears or wimpers and cries everytime he coughs, and it's the saddest thing ever! He's lost his voice and he can barely cry because of his voice. He is starting to slowly get it back though and his fever is finally gone.

We hope everyone else is doing better than us :-), and we're just all praying that Madisyn doesn't get it too!