Sick Baby Boy Day 5! :(

Well today was Parker's 5th day of his nasty stomach virus! He woke up at about 4:30am with some VERY NASTY diarrhea. We cleaned him up, he nursed and then went back to sleep until a little bit after 7 this morning. He was very wimpery and nothing really made him happy this morning. He nursed at about 7:20am, had a little bit of rice cereal at about 9:30am, nursed again at about 10:30am, and 12pm. He then fell asleep at about 12:15pm and slept until about 2, then nursed from about 2:10 until about 2:15 and then fell asleep again. James and I had been trying to keep track the best we could of his urination but it has been so difficult has the past 5 days have really been a blur due to the intense illness. We realized at about 1:30pm while he was napping that he hadn't had a wet diaper since he first woke up at 4:30am so it had already been about 9 hours since he had urinated! We didn't want to wake up and other than the lack of urination, he seemed to be doing quite a bit better, had been asking for and drinking water frequently and was eating as well as could be expected and keeping everything down. James went ahead and called the pediatrician's office and left a message with the nurse to see what they thought we should do. When 3:15 rolled around, Parker was still not wet and we had still not heard back from the pediatrician I told James that we should probably just call back and mention to the receptionist that he hadn't urinated in 11 hours and then see if that would get some response in regards to what we should do. Apparently as she told one of the nurses this, she stated that Parker should be seen in the office for that so they could evaluate him. They apparently had a cancellation at 4:30pm that was with our actual pediatrican, (by this point we had been to the pediatrician's office 2 other times and hadn't yet been seen by Parker's actual pediatrican b/c the first time we went it was on a Saturday and only a couple of their office's pediatricians work each Saturday b/c they rotate working on Saturdays, the second time we went they said Dr. Duff had an appointment at 7:30 which is later than Parker's bedtime plus with the drive back to Wamego by the time we would get back home it would be 8:30 at the earliest which is VERY late for him and he obviously needs as much sleep as he can get being so sick so we saw a different pediatrican that had an appointment at 1:45pm that same day instead of at 7:30 with Dr. Duff who is our pediatrician). Of course we made the appointment and then about 15 minutes later at about 3:30pm, (11 hours later!) Parker FINALLY urinated! We were shocked that it took SO long for him to urinate especially considering that he had A LOT of water to drink, as much breastmilk as he wanted and some rice cereal. Poor little guy apparently lost more fluids than we even realized from all of his vomiting and diarrhea. Oh and for those of you who are thinking that James and I are JUST paranoid first time parents, that's at least not entirely true. Dr. Duff told us that we SHOULD be coming into the office when he is going so long without urinating and that that is just what parents need to do. He even went so far as to say, don't just call the office, we want to physically see you in the office if this happens again so don't be afraid to call and make an appointment. This really made James and I feel a little better about the fact that we had been to the pediatrician's office 3 times since Saturday. Saturday's appointment was the day that he first got it when he threw up 4 times in 4 hours so that time obviously warranted the visit. It was at that visit that we were told if he doesn't urniate at least once within 8 hours that he needed to come back to the office to be seen, (on Monday he hadn't so we went back on Monday), and then today he went 11 hours without urinating so all of our trips were ligitament which we felt much better about. Anyway we came home from his appointment and Parker had a tiny bit of bread, a little bit of rice cereal and a little bit of banana baby food. After he ate he seemed to be feeling a little bit better so we decided to let him open his present he got in the mail today from Uncle Chris, Aunt Kristi, Cousin Kaleb and Cousin Olivia. He really liked it and was even smiling and dancing at it!! The first smiles we had seen in 5 days!! The smiles and dancing really made us hopeful for our day tomorrow! Thank you all for you thoughts and prayers! We really appreicate it and are SOOOO glad that it sounds like our baby boy will soon be back to normal! :)