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Mrs. Destructo
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speaking of being in the ER for dehydration...
Mrs. Destructo
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in Preemies
That's where I was on Sunday morning, with Drake.
He woke up Sunday morning and threw up a bit of bright green bile. Then he proceeded to eat a huge breakfast, but as soon as he was done eating he started straining to poop. When he started crying, I gave him a suppository. The suppository did NOTHING. I held him on the couch while he screamed and screamed, and after about 30 minutes or so I realized that he just couldn't get it out. So I handed the limp, pale, screaming baby over to my husband and drove to the store at the corner to buy a pediatric enema.
When I returned (in record time - I drove way too fast and ran through the store), I immediately tried to give Drake the enema. He was so plugged up that I couldn't get the nozzle in, let alone any of the liquid 
So I called the pedi's nurse line, hoping there was some other home-care thing I could do. I couldn't take it - before they called back I took Drake to the ER. He was in so much pain, it was just horrible.
The ER catheterized him to get urine, took some blood and ran an IV. All of this nearly caused me to have a panic attack - the splint they built for his arm to keep the IV in nearly sent me over the edge. It was just way too much like the splints my guys wore in the NICU.
Anyway, it turns out he was severely dehydrated. The ER doc said he was as dehydrated as a person who had been throwing up for 3-4 days. And he hadn't been sick at all - he just will not drink much. Drake got 2 bags of fluid and they sent us home. I gave him another enema when we got home, and he FINALLY pooped. And he pooped 3 more times the next day.
So I've been trying EVERYTHING to get my guys to drink more. Different sippies, different things to drink (ginger ale, 7 Up, gatorade, pedialite in addition to their normal juice, water and milk). Drake's chronically chapped lips are back, and Leo has got to be just as dehydrated because he won't drink much either. The new sippies have worked some, because they want to try out the 'new' cups, but once the novalty wears off they stop drinking from the new cups.
Do any of you have any suggestions on how to get them to drink more? They have got to drink more!
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Re: speaking of being in the ER for dehydration...
I have no experience with this, but what about some crazy straws or something fun like that?
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Also- how do they do with solids? Could you water something they really love down? Maybe make a milk shake and add more milk or something?
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Do they like stickers? You could buy some plain sippy cups and let them decorate the cups with stickers. Then take them off and do the same once they are bored with them.
You could try and make a game out of it. Everyone gets a cup (including mom and dad). Start some music and then when the music stops - everyone takes a drink. Something basic that they understand but still gets the drinking part in. Build a tower and then drink. Bounce a ball and then drink.
Good luck!
Oooh, crazy straws are a brilliant idea!! I'll have to get some!
The little boogers won't drink anything that's very cold, so I can't get them to drink milkshakes. I tried giving them chocolate milk yesterday, but it made them cry. Something about it made them very upset
PP, you always have the most brilliant suggestions!! Thank you!! I will definitely try to make a game out of drinking. That just might work
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PP is brilliant as usual, but I have to say I'm cracking up at playing drinking games with toddlers. "Every time Cookie monster says "cookie" DRINK!"
I can just see Mom & Dad Destructo with vodka in their own decorated sippy cups...
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That sounds horrible. ?I'm sorry you went through that! ?I've tried letting my girls suck on wet washcloths before. ?They don't get a ton of liquid from that, but it's something when you are desperate enough. ?I've also used those little feeding nets and put an ice cube in it for them to suck on although with their aversion to all things cold, that might not be the best idea for them. ?Good luck. ?Keep us posted!?
?LOL TriciaJoy with the drinking game reference. ?How about a round of "I Never"?
I don't know about "I never" the boys aren't even 2. They definitely have the advantage there. They've never done far too many things. "I never left the house alone" "I never tied my own shoes" "I never made myself a meal." That's stacked against the desired results there.
*LOL*
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ROTFLMAO!! You guys are too funny! I will have to remember this one.
Sorry, I have no suggestions, but the pedialyte pops sound yummy too. Poor kids, damn sippy cups! Maybe you can try giving them real open grown up cups to drink from during meals and sippy cups the rest of the day? Just a thought.
I'm cracking up, imagining 2 little boys playing I never with their sippy cups and crazy straws!
Do they like jello? It counts as a liquid!