At various times on Saturday Ellie was trying to have a bowel movement, with no success. We put her to bed about 9:30 PM. At 11 PM she began screaming and crying very loudly. She had filled her diapers with a very large and solid deposit, and she had vomited all over her bed and herself. After bathing her, changing the sheets, and rocking her to sleep, we put her back to bed. At about 1:15 AM, she began crying again (mostly in her sleep) but she seemed to be in much pain, especially if you touched her in the stomach area. We had never seen her like this (nor any of our other kids--except for William when he was 8 and had appendicitis), so we were a bit concerned!
After almost an hour of this, we called our pediatrician who finally suggested it would be best to take her to the hospital to make sure nothing serious was wrong.
As we got ready to go to the hospital she began to quiet down. When we put her in the car she woke up and seemed wide awake and quite content all the way there. When we arrived and waited for the doctor, she passed a bit of gas and seemed quite happy. As the doctor began to touch her in examination, she cried quite hard (which is quite normal during doctor visits). Vicki started making her laugh so the doctor could examine her, the doctor gave her a small enema, she immediately deposited a large load, and we were able to leave.
We got home around 4 AM and Ellie got back to sleep around 45 minutes later.
All things considered, we are very grateful that it was nothing more serious, and she has been just fine the last couple of days.
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