What a weekend

It all started Wednesday, so it's not really a weekend, but anyway ...

Nathaniel had a spectacular spit up Wednesday afternoon. Then we took him to the doctor for his 4-month vaccinations. Then he had another spectacular spit up Wednesday evening.

Then came Thursday. Around 11 a.m., I got a call from Amanda telling me the daycare had called and Nathaniel had a temperature around 103 degrees (not unusual after a vaccination, not dangerous to a 4-month-old, still VERY disconcerting). I left work to pick him up, then stayed home Friday to take care of him.

Around this time, he also developed some diarrhea issues and continued to not eat as much and throw up from time to time. We called the doctor's office, and they suggested some pedialyte to help keep his fluids up (his mouth was dry and he had stopped drooling). We tried pedialyte, but he really didn't seem to like the taste of that.

Got worse
Then came Saturday. I don't know if I caught what the little guy had or got food poisoning or what, but I joined Nathaniel in throwing up throughout the day and developed a fever. Good times. Even better times, I'm sure, for Amanda, who had to take care of both of us while trying to relax/recover from work. Amanda did great, however (we're both lucky to have her).

By Sunday, I was feeling a little better. Nathaniel still wasn't eating quite so much and was pooping too much. His mouth was wet again (back to the drooling). Based on some trial and error, we opened a new can of Enfamil forumla powder, and we're deciding the previous can might have been effected by the recent humidity. Amanda said the new can's powder appeared lighter and fluffier, while the previous can was kind of heavy. The proof (we hope) was that Nathaniel chugged down a full six ounces Sunday evening, afters spitting up a bit when we fed him from the previous can at 4 p.m. He also drank the whole bottle happily and without protest, which he hadn't done recently with the previous can (we thought he was just being fussy).

I can't imagine a "bad can" was responsible for all of this (he did have his shots, after all), but Amanda and I felt both relieved and horrible when he was so happy with the new can's formula.
(EDIT TO ADD: Based on how I continue to feel and on the symptoms, we're now convinced the main issue was a rotovirus of some sort. The powder probably added to the problem, though.)

Has anyone ever heard of a can of powdered formula going bad? We know, obviously, to seal the cannister tightly and keep water out of it, but it seems the high humidity of late might have caused some problem. I wrote to Enfamil about storing the can in the refigerator to protect against this, but I haven't heard back yet.

Either way, he seems to be doing fine now. Happy, hardy, sleeping well, not spitting up. I hope his poop is back to normal, as well.