Going to be a long evening. (updated in post #20)

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We are 5.5 hours into our 11 hour drive home. We have made it to Pendleton. Normally we are back in Washington at this point. We have stopped 7 times now because Edmund won't stop screaming. He eats, drinks and gets a diaper change each time we stop but it doesn't seem to be helping. Part of it I bet is the elevation change and his ears popping. It's just hard to concentrate on driving with him screaming. I'd get a hotel for tonight if it weren't for the fact I have to be at work at 9 tomorrow morning.

I'm also ready to use his bottle as target practice. I wish that I could just hand him a bottle and have him be able to drink it but he can't suck so he doesn't get anything out of it and we haven't found a sippy cup he will drink from yet.

[kwpnjumper55]

Put netflix on your phone an let him watch curious George. That's what our boys did on the iPad all the way to idaho

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Ummmm this is probably flameable, but can you slip him a little baby sleeping pill?

[kwpnjumper55]

Jul 23, 2012 18:58:48 GMT -5 @uwhuskygirl said:

Ummmm this is probably flameable, but can you slip him a little baby sleeping pill?

Benedryl!

[jennlin]

i don't get it...why won't he take a bottle? what about a pacifier?

[sarack]

i don't think he can suck it because of his cleft lip right? i'm really sorry, it's gotta be hard!

[jennlin]

Jul 23, 2012 19:02:52 GMT -5 sarack said:

i don't think he can suck it because of his cleft lip right? i'm really sorry, it's gotta be hard!

this is my thought, but i thought he had surgery to fix it so that he could? i dunno..i guess i assumed that's how he's been eating the last year. or did you have to spoon feed him everything? bc THAT is hard work and you have even more props.

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Sarack is right. His muscle still doesn't work right, normally takes 5-6 months after surgery, so he has no suction and can't keep a paci in or drink out of anything that requires suction. He also hates the sippy cups that you bite to get a flow.

I'm ready to dose him with Tylenol.

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We have a squeeze bottle that we have been feeding him with. So any time he takes milk we have to squeeze the bottle for him to get anything.

[jennlin]

was he ever able to use a bottle? or only after this most recent surgery?

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He's always used the squeeze bottle.

[InBetweenDays]

Don't do Benadryl! It can actually backfire and make them hyper. Try Tylenol - maybe something is bothering him? Poor guy, and poor mom!

[niq]

({) Hang in there! I hope he sleeps well when you guys get home at least so you can too.

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Well it took us 7 hours to get from Boise to Prosser, it normally takes 5.5. We are finally at the halfway point. Let's hope it doesn't take another 7 to get the rest of the way home.

[karebear219]

Good luck sounders. That sounds misserable. I don't have any suggestions, but I'll give you mommy support.

[bettylou79]

Ugh! No fun at all! My fingers are crossed that things start going better.
My BFF found that OXO's sippy cups work for her son. They had to try a lot too.
Good luck!

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I've heard that about the OXO sippy cups I just have never seen them anywhere and always forget to check online when I get home.

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We are on the ferry finally. He screamed for most of the trip home. We'd stop he'd be fine for about 30 minutes and then he would just scream and scream. I think I finally figured out that it is his car seat cutting into his crotch since I had moved it closer to him this morning. So now I'm trying to figure out ways to fix that issue so he is safe in his seat. I'm hoping I can figure it out I really live this seat otherwise and normally he is so happy in it. I may just have to move it back and lower the shoulder straps do he fits properly.