Well our little Peepers was cursed with the ever present diarrhea and it was getting worse.  So, I decided that I would put her back on some other local formula as I didn’t want to have to deal with this on the 17+ hour plane ride home.  So, I went to the little market at the Hilton and all they had was French formula.  Go figure.  No local stuff to be had.  So, as I was looking over the formula I noticed a formula specifically for babies with diarrhea.  I so am not kidding.  I was worried about buying it.  I looked closely over it’s ingredients and compared it to the regular French formula.  Nothing that stood out and it all seemed very run of the mill.

OMG.  It so totally works.  Within hours of the first two bottles her stool was much less runny–still not ideal but not explosive.  Then today even better.  I am worried about it constipating her so am alternating between formulas.  I know this isn’t ideal, but she is responding well.  No spitting up and not outward signs of any ill effects.  I will switch her completely to her American formula well into our flight home.

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Nazret.  The drive was long and the visit to the hospital sad and sobering.  I have many many emotions about it and will post more about that later.  I was able to get some answers to my questions–who named her, how long she was there, etc.  I also got pictures of the room and bed she was in and the intake photo as well as the nurse who named and took care of her for her week there.

I am exhausted–as the trip took nearly 7 hours–roads in Ethiopia aren’t great and we had to pick up other children to bring back to AAI’s care center.  It was an intense and long trip.  More later.

This is my last Ethiopia blog post.  We depart tomorrow at 10:15pm Ethiopia time.  I will post on Monday in depth about my trip with pictures.  Have a great weekend.