I wish I could finally say that our battle on mealtime is improving, but we are actually in hell right now. He hasn’t eaten a single bite of food since yesterday morning. About 25 hours ago. I have completely run out of food that he will eat. He was eating chicken pretty consistantly. Not anymore. Peanut butter and jelly. Now he plays with that and mashes it all over the plate. Hot dogs are no longer. I made mac and cheese (which has obviously become a thing of the past as well) for lunch yesterday. He wouldn’t eat it, so I covered it and heated it up for dinner. You can guess how that went. I’m at a loss. I’ve run out of food. He literally will not eat anything. You think I’m joking, exagerating. I wish I was.

I don’t know if it was a result of nothing on his stomach, but he got sick in his bed last night, so he came and got in bed with me around 3:30. Then he got sick in my bed. I never went back to sleep after he came in there because I was up and down the rest of the night rushing him back and forth to the toilet. We officially reached dishrag phase around 4:30 this morning when he was dry heaving. All he had in him was water, and that is gone. He won’t drink pedialyte. He won’t eat. He has been sitting in front of a piece of toast and a cup of pedialyte for well over an hour now. We have taken away dessert. We have taken away privledges. We have made him go straight to bed after sitting at the table in front of his dinner for over an hour. Nothing seems to work. All you moms of great eaters. Be grateful. I’d rather have a kid eating me out of house and home any day, than one who makes each and every meal a battle. He still has endless energy, I don’t know where he gets it from. Me? I’m feeling like a failure. I’ll let you know if we end up in the ER in the next few days.

PS I suppose I can add bananas to the increasingly short list of foods he will tolerate at the moment.  He perked up and started eating when I gave it to him.  At least it is healthy I guess.  Depressing.

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One Response to “a test of wills”

    Lauren
    April 10th, 2008 9:10 pm

    awww mama its ok!!! if he gets hungry he will eat! you’ve done everything you can!! hey bananas are a start!!I sure do hope he feels better!!! Maybe he has a 24 hr bug or something! I will keep you guys in my prayers though!! I’ve never experienced this so I have no advice to give well except when aidan had the roto virus at 10 months old. But he was young then. Love ya!!

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