We returned home tonight after a 4 night stay in the hospital. I put a healthy, happy baby to bed on Friday night and when she woke up at 2am to eat, she was very warm with a fever of nearly 102 degrees. After a quick phone call to the pediatrician we packed up and reported to the ER by 3am. I won't go into detail about all the tests our little one had to endure, but you can imagine they do not take any chances with a high fever in a baby so young.
By 7am Kenleigh was hooked up to an IV, on antibiotics and we were admitted into the very same hospital we brought her home from just 20 days earlier. The tests and cultures took a few days to grow and give results and in the meantime she was still spiking very high temps. By yesterday morning we knew that she was fighting a staph infection but waiting to hear on the strain of the virus to know what specific antibiotics she would need to be changed to.
She had a small spot under her right arm that we will never know how she got, a scratch, a bug bite, etc...but either way, a staph infection developed there and made our little one pretty sick.
We were discharged from the hospital tonight around 7pm and are back home as a family of 4 again. Cole was pretty happy to see us walk in the door with his baby sister and he poked at her right away trying to get her to open her eyes. Typical Cole!!
Kenleigh is responding well to the antibiotics and will stay on them for the next 4 days. We are so thankful for everyone's calls, prayers and well wishes. It was a scary couple of days, but she appears to be on the mend and we are so happy to have her home again.
Here is a picture of her in her bouncer in the hospital...you can see her IV, so sad!!
On a side note, she was weighed everyday and our little piggy is up to 10lb! So much for the newborn sized clothes. We moved onto size 1 diapers...she's growin!
4 comments:
I am so glad she is doing so much better. That was very scary. I can only imagine what you are Shawn were going through. Happy to hear she is on the mend and everyone is at home.
Wow! I thought it was bad enough we had to take Matt to the ER when Ben was 20 days old... can't imagine if it was him. Hang in there!
Sorry to hear what you have been through, but so glad that she is getting better. It was hard taking Alina at 3 to the hospital (the surgery was the worst), I was thankful that she had some idea what was happening. It was still the scariest time.
Wow! I am so glad she is ok! Hang in there! :)
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