Our beautiful, bright eyed baby girl!Merry Christmas! Keaton is now 5 days old! We're in love with our little baby girl and enjoying every second with her. In fact, we had quite a scare with Keaton yesterday so we're even more appreciative and counting our blessings today as her condition has much improved.
We brought Keaton home from the hospital on Wednesday and she was doing great! On Thursday night, she became quite groggy (even for a newborn baby!), hard to awaken enough to eat and was vomiting after eating. This continued throughout Thursday night and by noon Friday (Christmas Eve), we decided to take her to the emergency room. We were immediately seen in the ER due to Keaton's age (4 days old) and condition. The doctor was highly concerned with her vomiting, lethargy, lack of desire to eat and dehydration and wanted to run various tests. Keaton had a spinal tap to test for meningitis, xrays to check her bowels (possible obstruction or malformation) and an upper GI. She had to receive an IV for dehydration and had vials of blood drawn. As you can imagine, hearing all of this potential news and watching her get poked and needled is extremely scary, especially for your 4 day old baby!! Throughout the following 3-4 hours, Joe and I were by Keaton's side for every test. By 7:00 last night, we had received the good news that all of the tests run were negative so the major issues had been ruled out.
The ER doctor checked us into the hospital to be observed for 2 days. Keaton has continued to receive IV fluids and antibiotics for the past 24 hours and has nursed successfully 4 times without vomiting. The doctor has seen her a few more times and says everything looks good. Her color has improved and she is much more alert. We're staying at the hospital again tonight for continued observation. If everything goes well tonight, we should be able to go home tomorrow. I'm not sure if we'll ever know what caused the problems (kind of a tough pill to swallow), but good news is she's improving.
Luckily Joe's dad was in town for Christmas and was able to be with Jensen while we were at the ER. Joe went home to be with Jensen last night and I stayed with Keaton in the hospital. Joe surprised me this morning and brought Jensen to visit me.....a wonderful Christmas gift for mommy who was so sad to not wake up with her entire family this morning! Joe and Jensen are at home tonight with Joe's mom, sister and niece who have come to help. I'm staying with Keaton at the hospital again tonight and praying we get to go home tomorrow morning.
Please say a prayer for Keaton's healthy recovery. She definitely seems to be doing better, but what a tough 24 hours it's been. We pray that tonight will go smooth and she'll continue to show signs of improvement. Not the way we wanted to spend our Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, but we're just so thankful she's doing better! We'll be celebrating our Christmas in the next few days once we're home and settled again.
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