TMI? (thinking ahead but...) How exactly do you contain a tummy bug when your LO catches one?

PAP179

I have read some posts that they let the kid sleep in a bathtub padded with towels? Some keep them in bed with them? I fear dealing with this the first time when he is too little to know what to do..  How did you manage?

annam829

dd just had her first one but it was just vomiting (alot for about 8 hours)...it happened in the middle of the night and she was really scarred   i just made a bed on the floor and layed with her and used a bunch of bath towels when she threw up...i guess 18 months isn't bad for the first time.

smiling76

We just went through that----basically he threw up in his crib like 3x that night.  Alternative would be to sleep on the floor with him--but honestly, cleaning the sheets (and him) was easier plus he sleeps better in the crib.  I did hold him a lot those two nights though.  The diarrhea was the worst--and would leak out of his diaper.  Not much you can do but to listen for the sound and act accordingly.  We did have to clean the carpets once--and luckily another time it was on the kitchen floor--which is linoleum. 

It's so hard to watch your LO be sick like that----the clean up was nothing really.

 

MegGary

DD had a stomach bug on Valentine's day this year. She was only 7 months old. I was giving her her bottle before bed when she started gagging. So I sat her up thinking she was choking on the bottle. She proceeded to throw up all over me & her. I yelled for DH. We got cleaned up & brought her out to the living room with us for a little while. I put a large towel on my lap & everytime she threw up I just held the towel under mouth & let her throw up in that. It wasn't a lot since most of it had come out earlier. That & she was so little. Not much to hold in there.

She slept in my bed that night with me. DH took the couch.

 I imagine until she can get to our room on her own I'd do that again if need be. I wouldn't leave her in her crib alone if she was sick w/ a stomach bug.

 

When she had bronchiolitis at 8 months she slept with me as well. I was too worried about her breathing to leave her alone.

EDT: she was 8 months old.

mabst196

DD had two of these and they were both when she was younger. The first time I had her sleep in her bouncy next to my bed. The second time she was too mobile for the bouncy, so I had her sleep in the pack and play in my room. During the day, I ran her to the kitchen sink to be sick.

She coughs before she throws up so I get a couple seconds to run to her and run her to the bathroom (in our bedroom). We amazingly made it almost every time.

kelly&marty

When DS had it (maybe around 10 months old? I forget), we sat in the bathroom during the worst of it, when it was coming every few minutes. The rest of the time, I'd put a big towel on my lap, so if he suddenly threw up, that'd catch it. But I also kept a bucket (like my mom always did), which we sometimes managed to get to his mouth in time.  But he & I both went through many clothes changes, as sometimes it just gets everywhere. Ugh. What I would give never to have to deal with a stomach bug again.