Hospital Baby!

Lewis continues to bring lots of exciting adventures into the Wasden home! The other night we had our first trip to the emergency room with our boy.

Earlier in the day, Norah had him on her lap and when to turn him the other direction. As has happened before, his arm got twisted behind him as he turned. Usually, he's fine when this happens. However, this time he screamed so loudly and didn't calm down for about an hour. We realized that he was not using his left arm at all, so off to the hospital we went.

At the emergency room, we learned about "nurse maid's elbow." When a child's arm is stretched back and twists slightly, the ligiment in the forearm can pop out of place. Not only is it painful, but severely limits their control of that arm. Whenever Mike has gotten too frisky in the past few weeks, Norah has unsuccessfully tried to pull his arm and twist it - but to no avail!! I guess it only affects babies and toddlers.

The worst part of the whole ER experience was the x-rays; Lewis hated that! Poor thing. There he is in so much pain, and then we have to hold him down to a table and hold his arm in place while they shine a bright light on him. So sad! But, once they determined that it was just nurse maid's elbow, the doctor manipulated Lewis's arm a little, popped it back into place, and voila! It was like magic - Lewis started using his arm again right away!

All better!

We're hoping to limit the number of future ER adventures we have to go through. But, we were grateful that our first ER experience was non-life-threatning and not nearly as scary as it could have been.

In other news, our dear little baby began eating a little bit of rice cereal the first week of June. He gets more of it all over himself than in his mouth, but it's very cute to watch!