MRI tomorrow, no food after MN, no clear after 6am-WWYD?

KDR1979 · April 2013

Normally, they go to bed at 8pm and wake up around 6 or 7am. I'm thinking about waking DS up at 530am tomorrow to give him some pedialyte. We get to the hospital at 8am, MRI at 9am, so he won't be drinking anything until 10 or 11am. Would you just let him sleep as long as he can before leaving for the MRI or wake up at 530am to give him some pedialyte??

memali26 · April 2013

When my girls had their tubes put in (they were 14 months and 10 months) they could not have anything to eat or drink after midnight - not even clear liquids - because they were going under anesthesia. We just put them to bed as usual and let them sleep as long as we could before waking them to go to the hospital. We found there was enough new stuff and so much activity and so many people coming into tell them how cute they were :P that they were distracted enough that they didn't get too cranky about being hungry/thirsty. As soon as they were in recovery we could give them something to drink.

So yes, I'd just let him sleep. I find hungry kids are easier to distract than over tired kids, so sleep would win for us.

smiling76 · April 2013

I'm trying to recall what we did for DS1 when he had to be put under for dental work a few yrs back. It was the same thing--- no food, etc. I was totally stressing about it but actually he did great--even with the surgery being delayed a couple of hours.

So not even water in the morning?? Are they putting him under?

Yes, you could try waking him up at 5:30ish and give some water--and maybe rock back to sleeep/ maybe you'll get lucky and he'll go back down for an hour or so. My other advice is to bring some "new" toys/books/etc with you so that he's not wanting food/drink--but is busy with other stuff.

preggersin2011 · April 2013

LO had outpatient surgery. I took her straight from her crib, did a diaper change, then put her in the car. they are used to doing little kids. i wouldn't worry about dehydration or anything like that

KDR1979 · April 2013

Thanks everyone. We ended giving him a little extra before bed and he slept until 7:10am or so. We changed his diaper and then left for the hospital, so he didn't even seem to notice that we skipped breakfast.

MRI tomorrow, no food after MN, no clear after 6am-WWYD?

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