The ER Doctor felt he was ok since at that point he was sipping water and keeping it down. We went home and he mostly slept through the night. He woke up the next day and vomited once, i think because he drank to much to quickly. After that he fell asleep and slept the whole day only to wake every so often to drink some water.
By 6pm that night the diarrhoea started again and we immediacy called the doctor and rushed our lethargic baby to the ER, again. When we walked in the same doctor was on and looked at him in my arms and said "oh no he looks a lot worse" It was at that point they hustled a into a room and "tried" to get and IV into him asap. It was a horrible experience to witness our little fella getting an IV in his arm unsuccessfully and then his foot with success. So Thomas was checked into the hospital on Friday night for hydration purposes. He was such a great patient and we were starting to see improvement in him by the following afternoon. I did the overnight shifts and kept him in the bed with me, I did not have the heart to put him in the metal crib that resembled a jail cell. Larry would come in the afternoon and take over. By Saturday afternoon he was eating Cheerios and drinking juice and water. He looked very stylish and cute in his hospital gown, however once was enough for us.
When all is said and done, both boys are very healthy, Thomas was in the hospital, but it was only for hydration purposes. The only antibiotic either of them have been on was an eye drop for pink eye and that was during this fiasco.
