February 2016 Moms
g0lightly8706
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Sick baby :(
g0lightly8706
member
Hey guys.. so this is a vent cause i'm a nervous wreck.
Yesterday I noticed LO was sleeping way more than normal and was going 5+ hours without waking to feed. I didn't really notice (feeling stupid about it too) but when DH got home he realized she had a fever. We called the advice nurse who recommending coming and since it was after hours we had to go to the ER. Fast forward 3 hours and around midnight last night her fever was still high and her first blood tests came back with something abnormal going on with her white cell count and her sodium levels weren't were they were supposed to be.. and then we get the dreaded news we have to be admitted.
I freaked out. I mean i started bawling uncontrollably. Baby girl is only 5 weeks and we're already dealing with this. So here i sit, in this horrible place i was so happy to get out of just a little over a month ago. She's doing okay but her fever keeps going up and down so i think we're here through the weekend until the blood cultures come back from their regional facility. I guess they're looking for a virus, and until then they want to keep her on preventative antibiotics just in case.
I'm so scared, and just so depressed this is already happening. we had to deal with jaundice when she was born and although it wasn't severe it was still scary because you feel so helpless. And now I feel so helpless again and there's nothing we can do but sit in this stupid hospital room and wait and wait. I hate this
Yesterday I noticed LO was sleeping way more than normal and was going 5+ hours without waking to feed. I didn't really notice (feeling stupid about it too) but when DH got home he realized she had a fever. We called the advice nurse who recommending coming and since it was after hours we had to go to the ER. Fast forward 3 hours and around midnight last night her fever was still high and her first blood tests came back with something abnormal going on with her white cell count and her sodium levels weren't were they were supposed to be.. and then we get the dreaded news we have to be admitted.
I freaked out. I mean i started bawling uncontrollably. Baby girl is only 5 weeks and we're already dealing with this. So here i sit, in this horrible place i was so happy to get out of just a little over a month ago. She's doing okay but her fever keeps going up and down so i think we're here through the weekend until the blood cultures come back from their regional facility. I guess they're looking for a virus, and until then they want to keep her on preventative antibiotics just in case.
I'm so scared, and just so depressed this is already happening. we had to deal with jaundice when she was born and although it wasn't severe it was still scary because you feel so helpless. And now I feel so helpless again and there's nothing we can do but sit in this stupid hospital room and wait and wait. I hate this
Married: 8/25/12
Started TTC: 1/1/14
BFP: 6/1/15
Baby Girl Athena Born: 2/7/16
Re: Sick baby :(
I've been watching Netflix on my laptop and trying to catch up on sleep.. But I catch myself just watching the clock which isn't helping at all. I'm just thankfully LO isn't in pain or crying a lot, that would make this 10 times worse.
@VitaLuna
Thank you, its been rough but DH is being awesome and just trying to keep me from going insane. I just need time to speed up already!
:-) T&P for you both.
my current annoyance is my MIL though. i know she's trying to help but she is here in the room with us and just is kind of in the way since we can't do much but let her sleep in between feedings.
basically she'll come in and start touching her like on her hands and forehead and wakes her up. also every time she cries, she automatically says she's hungry, even after she just ate.. like no, babies cry for other reasons. and basically just asks a million other questions that i really don't want to deal with right now. DH thinks she's being helpful, even after i tell him we don't really need her here all the time so i seriously cannot wait to get out of here!
ETA: update on LO, she's doing better so here's hoping this will be over soon once we get the cultures back.
She has a UTI. Although she is doing better, they need us to stay at the hospital for 7 horrible days. I just about lost it when they told us that, however now that i've calmed down I'm trying to look at the big picture that she is doing better since they put her on antibiotics. She just needs the full bout of treatment and here's hoping this is just one long week we can forget about as soon as it's over. I guess parenthood really wanted to test us early on.
She's still doing good, just her normal routine but here at the hospital instead of home. And no she's not in the NICU and we're able to pick her up thankfully so we're just trying to pass the time. Thankfully we live about 5 mins away from the hospital so we've been taking shifts here so we don't go too crazy. It's gonna be a long week though