No more sick babies!!!

Our sweet little GGM came home last night after spending 3 days and 2 nights in the hospital. We awoke early Wednesday morning to feed GGM and found that she had a temperature of 101.9. Being that she was only 18 days old, we took her to the Emergency Room where she endured a urine collection, blood draw / IV stick, and spinal tap. She also had to be admitted for a minimum of 48 hours to ensure that she did not have a bacterial infection such as meningitis, which could be fatal in infants as young as her. Needless to say we were quite worried. Her initial tests all came back negative but they had to do cultures on all of her fluid samples to watch for bacterial growth. Meanwhile her fever was up and down and we were watching for chicken pox because we had been exposed when she was only 5 days old. After two long days of waiting for test results, they all came back negative and we got to go home!

Our stay in the hospital was not bad. The hospital where we went has a pediatric ER so everyone working there is used to dealing with babies and children. I got to eat yummy hospital food because GGM is nursing. I also got to sleep on the very cozy hospital recliner. GGM had her vitals taken every four hours and had to have IV injections every 6 hours. She also eats about every two hours. With all the activity, I hardly slept. Our nurses were pretty good. We had all NICU nurses because GGM was so little. It was nice knowing that the people caring for her were good with very small and very sick babies, especially when they had to poke her tiny veins to have blood drawn.

Luckily, PSM's parents arrived on Tuesday evening and were at home to care for LRM while PSM and I spent time in the hospital with GGM. LRM has had a great time playing with her Aachi and Thatha and we're very thankful that they have been here!