Nothing is easy with Emily.
Last week Emily had some apnea episodes (stopped breathing) and she was pretty lethargic about eating so the dr decided we should do blood work to see if she had an infection.
Well, getting Em's blood is no small feat. Apparently her veins 'disappear'. As a parent, 45 minutes of stabbing my kid and failing to get blood is just too long. The long and short of it is that they finally went to her feet to collect the blood...and it came back with a bacterial infection.
Luckily, our pediatrician doesn't over-react and since everything else was negative, she called to find out if the blood had gotten contaminated. This all happened at midnight...me on the phone with my kid's awesome dr. So she called the NICU for a second opinion and they wanted to readmit her and start her on antibiotics while they waited for a second blood culture to grow.
I spent half an hour convincing our dr that we could do everything they were going to do and she arranged for a new blood test the following day. So we drove back in to the hospital and the same thing happened again, except this time they were successful. Today we found out the test was negative and we were right...it was a contaminant. Praise the Lord! We did not want to have her back in the NICU! So...two days used to take Emily's blood, all to find out she is fine. They increased the amount of caffeine she gets and she hasn't had any episodes since. Ahhh, life with Emily.
The life and adventures of two former MK's...and their new additions. Our first daughter was born full-term on Jan 19, 2009 and 10 short months later, our micro-preemie was born Nov 6, 2009 at 24w3d and 1 pound 6 ounces. Read her story and our journey below.
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How scary though!!!
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