When traveling for long distances, usually 1-2 hours in Addie starts complaining about her leg hurting (and has since she was about 9 months old). I mentioned it to the Dr. during Cara's 2 month well visit and she insisted that we make a separate appointment without Cara with us to have her checked out because we would have to do x-rays and other tests. I have to say this kind of worried me because I was just expecting her to say oh it's just a pinched nerve and we would just have to stop more frequently when traveling.
So I made an appointment for 2 days later, just Addie and I went. When we got there she checked her back and legs to make sure everything is in line, had a bag put on her to catch her urine and sent us to have x-rays and blood work. She was such a good girl letting them put that most uncomfortable bag on her. Then we got to the imaging place and she did great laying real still for the pictures that they took of her abdomen and down her right side. While we were waiting for the Dr. to take a look at the pictures to make sure that we got what we needed, Addie pooped. Not wanting her to hang out in it, we ran back to the Dr.'s office before heading to the lab for blood work. The nurse removed her bag, but we couldn't use the urine since she had pooped at the same time, so she put another one on her.
When then got back in the car and headed towards the lab, while circling the cluster of dr.'s offices trying to find the right one I started getting a little apprehensive over what might be wrong with my sweet little girl to cause her so much pain. Not to mention the fact that she was about to have to have blood drawn. Addie can take a shot like a champ, but having your blood drawn is so different, it isn't over just as quick as it happens like a shot...So I said a little prayer that she might be able to have her blood drawn without any major issues. Plus I don't want her to have issues in the future, you know one bad experience can cause the future shots etc. to be a bit more difficult... all of a sudden Addie break out into song "Jesus loves me, I know, Jesus loves Addie" Can we say tears!!! Lord Jesus you are so good and always right where we need you the most, Thank You!
We find the lab and head in, as we sit down the lab tech asks "has she ever had blood drawn before?" after I said "no" we both look at each other with the same look as we know what is about to go down and how will she handle it(probably not well). She explains to Addie what she is going to do as she is doing it and then the needle comes out. The tech sticks it in her, about 45 seconds and she cries for about 45 seconds, then stops. She did not move an inch!!! Staying perfectly still the ENTIRE time even while she was crying, then she just watched as the tech took 4 vials!! God what did I ever do to deserve such an amazing little girl?! Not that I am questioning our Father's decisions, I am so grateful, as well as SUPER PROUD!!! She got a hot pink bandage and an orange bracelet that she was just tickled pink over.
After we left there we went back to the office to have her bag removed but she had not peed. They gave me a cup so that I could empty her bag if she filled it and we were at home. We then went to have lunch with Daddy, after that we went shopping so that we wouldn't have to go home. Once the bag was full we went back to the Dr.'s to have it removed. When we went back the nurse informed me that the x-rays were normal. Yay, that's great news, but wait her pain has to be coming from somewhere so I am not so sure it is that great... If the x-rays are normal should I worry that there is something wrong with her blood work? God is good and will pull us through, we could always use your prayers though.
Now we just wait...But keep in mind that "Jesus loves Addie".
Saturday, April 30, 2011
1 and 2 Months
So as you may be able to tell I have been a little behind lately on my Blogging, forgive me for I am now a full fledged mother of 2. Cara, like her sister has been an absolute joy, such a blessing. She has had a much worse time with the Reflux than Addie did so we have had to learn to do a lot of stuff differently. I thought really that I would have everything down pat having done this all before, but nothing, I repeat nothing is the same. This said, we are actually living the new parent life again, but loving it just as much as the first go 'round if not more!
I would say as far as sleeping is concerned the first week home was the hardest, but after that Cara pretty much settled in to a routine on her own, now she goes to sleep between 8:45pm and 9:45pm (usually closer to the beginning of that time frame) and sleeps until 2am or 2:30am. She eats and goes back down until around 5:30am. I can usually get her to go back down for another hour or so but even still she will quietly lay in her bassinet and let me sleep in a bit more.
She is such a wonderful baby, hardly cries, unless she is really hungry or if her reflux is really acting up. We have gotten her on Prevacid Suspension and it seems to be helping although she still has episodes now and then. It is very scary and I will be thankful when she doesn't have to go through all of it anymore. I hate to wish the time away, but I just want her to be able to be comfortable.
At her 1 month check up she weighed 9lbs 15oz which is in the 67th percentile and measured 21 3/4 inches which is 74th percentile. Looks like we are gonna have another tall one on our hands. Her head circumference is in the 50th percentile at 37 1/4cm. I looked back in Addie's baby book today and she is right on track to be exactly 2lbs heavier than Addie, but I believe that her height will be right on. Still have the 2 most beautiful girls ever!
3 days before she turned 1 month she smiled for the first time, if I can't say anything else I can at least say that both of my girls each smiled their first smiles at me. On her 1 month birthday she started cooing and it is so awesome being able to "talk" to my little angel! Just this evening I think we spent about 5 min just going back and forth with each other, it was so great. Last week she started recognizing the objects on her play gym so I put the bear mobile on her swing Monday and she seems to be enjoying looking at them as well.
I have heard her on a couple of different occasions smile out loud, I don't think they were true laughs because I don't recall Addie laughing until she was 3 months or so, so for right now I am just considering them as smiles with sound behind them. It's rare, but so heart filling when it does happen. She has a beautiful smile too, with one perfectly placed dimple on her right cheek.
So Cara had her 2 month well visit this past Monday weighing a whopping 11lbs 7oz and 23 inches long. However her head circumference was only 37 1/2 cm which dropped her down to the 25th percentile. This slightly worried me, but I am trying to keep my obsessions under wrap a little better, so I am praying a lot. Praying that God gives me the faith to relax and trust that everything will be okay. Her eye started running again the night before, Dr. Wiley cultured it and it came back as viral strep, so we are back on anti-biotic ointment for her eye, hopefully it will work this go round.
It's been an amazing 2 months so very sad to think that there is only one month to go before I have to go back to work. With that said I am trying to soak up as much as I can before I have to leave her every morning. Which makes me even more thankful that I have such a wonderful mother that takes care of my girls here at the house. That way I can have a break in the middle of the day to come home and love on them that helps get me through the rest of the day. Loving my little 2 month old so much!
I would say as far as sleeping is concerned the first week home was the hardest, but after that Cara pretty much settled in to a routine on her own, now she goes to sleep between 8:45pm and 9:45pm (usually closer to the beginning of that time frame) and sleeps until 2am or 2:30am. She eats and goes back down until around 5:30am. I can usually get her to go back down for another hour or so but even still she will quietly lay in her bassinet and let me sleep in a bit more.
She is such a wonderful baby, hardly cries, unless she is really hungry or if her reflux is really acting up. We have gotten her on Prevacid Suspension and it seems to be helping although she still has episodes now and then. It is very scary and I will be thankful when she doesn't have to go through all of it anymore. I hate to wish the time away, but I just want her to be able to be comfortable.
At her 1 month check up she weighed 9lbs 15oz which is in the 67th percentile and measured 21 3/4 inches which is 74th percentile. Looks like we are gonna have another tall one on our hands. Her head circumference is in the 50th percentile at 37 1/4cm. I looked back in Addie's baby book today and she is right on track to be exactly 2lbs heavier than Addie, but I believe that her height will be right on. Still have the 2 most beautiful girls ever!
3 days before she turned 1 month she smiled for the first time, if I can't say anything else I can at least say that both of my girls each smiled their first smiles at me. On her 1 month birthday she started cooing and it is so awesome being able to "talk" to my little angel! Just this evening I think we spent about 5 min just going back and forth with each other, it was so great. Last week she started recognizing the objects on her play gym so I put the bear mobile on her swing Monday and she seems to be enjoying looking at them as well.
I have heard her on a couple of different occasions smile out loud, I don't think they were true laughs because I don't recall Addie laughing until she was 3 months or so, so for right now I am just considering them as smiles with sound behind them. It's rare, but so heart filling when it does happen. She has a beautiful smile too, with one perfectly placed dimple on her right cheek.
So Cara had her 2 month well visit this past Monday weighing a whopping 11lbs 7oz and 23 inches long. However her head circumference was only 37 1/2 cm which dropped her down to the 25th percentile. This slightly worried me, but I am trying to keep my obsessions under wrap a little better, so I am praying a lot. Praying that God gives me the faith to relax and trust that everything will be okay. Her eye started running again the night before, Dr. Wiley cultured it and it came back as viral strep, so we are back on anti-biotic ointment for her eye, hopefully it will work this go round.
It's been an amazing 2 months so very sad to think that there is only one month to go before I have to go back to work. With that said I am trying to soak up as much as I can before I have to leave her every morning. Which makes me even more thankful that I have such a wonderful mother that takes care of my girls here at the house. That way I can have a break in the middle of the day to come home and love on them that helps get me through the rest of the day. Loving my little 2 month old so much!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Bud-Weis-Errrrr
The Budweiser Clydesdales are in town for the Dash game this weekend and they were in a parade yesterday around downtown, so we went to see them. We watched them unload them off of the Truck and groom them before they hooked them up to the wagon. It was really neat to see how pristine those horses are, they are like royalty almost. The Dalmation that rides with them is bred and treated just as well...
Terrible Two's?
Terrible or Tremendous? Ok at the risk of sounding really corny...I have yet to find anything terrible about our newly 2 year old. So what, if having 2 year pictures was a feat to beat them all, how dare I even ask for a smile or two, maybe if you could even sit in front of the camera... But we made it through and got a few keepers to boot, how could we not with a smile like that?
Two years ago our worlds flipped upside down when we had the most amazing little girl! Wow I still can't believe that it has been 2 years! It seems like only yesterday, but here are a few things that show just how grown up our little baby has become....
Not actually counting but I would say that there is at least 200 words in her vocabulary and she easily puts 4-6 word sentences together. Lately she has really gotten good at using and. She takes instructions with stride, 75% of the time follows them without a second prompting not to mention replies to them with "oh sure!". We have been working on "yes ma'am and yes sir" and if I may say so she is doing really well with them. She doesn't say them without prompting yet, but will say them after instructed it's only a matter of time before she has it down on her own. She is in the beginning stages of saying her own prayers at night (thanks to her Daddy for teaching her how), and she automatically takes our hands before eating dinner so that we can bless our food.
She can read a few words we think. She has read them to us on occasion, but we are still trying to figure out if those instances were just flukes or not. Anyway, cow, cat, hat, pig and of course hi are the ones she has read to us.
Coming immediately when "baby Cara" cries to put her paci in her mouth (carefully not to touch the nipple). Making sure that she has a blanket to cover her up and that Mommy or Daddy is equipped with a burp cloth when need be. She keeps and eye on her while we are in the car, letting us know what she is doing. She now has fully gotten into mommy hood role playing, the other day I caught her nursing "baby Addie" (she has a baby Addie and a baby Cara). She takes really good care of them, feeding, changing, bathing, rocking, taking them shopping... She is such a wonderful big sister!
She is so aware and by aware I mean she only needs to hear or see something once and she doesn't forget it. Just today when Chris was referencing me while talking to his sister he called me Amanda...the smarty pants that we have on our hands heard him, put it together and has been calling me Amanda-Mommy all night. To retaliate, I told her what Daddy's name was... I was singing to her earlier (like I always have) and I was just singing her name to different tunes well I was saying "Addie, Addie, Adeline Maize..." and she automatically started calling herself Adeline Maize. Last month she would gladly introduce herself to anyone as Addie Hughes, she now knows that her full name is Adeline Maize Hughes. To top that off Baby Cara who is Baby Cara, Baby Caraline, Cara, Caraline, Caraboo, Caraline Hughes at any other time is now Caraline Rayne Hughes. Something that really amazes me is how aware she is of what she is saying, for instance when Chris asked her to tell me who was coming this weekend she started to say baby Car-then she stopped halfway through-corrected herself and said "baby Kaitlyn". Also this weekend she was talking to Grams and when she went to address her she said "Grandma, um Grams" again she corrected herself, what a smart little girl. She sees and usually turns around and does, at the moment I can only think of examples that I didn't witness, but my MIL said that as she was helping my FIL pack their stuff up, Addie immediately started mimicking them. She like I said before knows that Baby Cara eats from Mommy's boobies and has illustrated that by nursing her baby also (she also verbalizes her knowledge of this at times). She is constantly watching and listening to us and learning. This means that I now have to be on top of things when she is around, because she is very aware.
Two years old has been great thus far, with lots of new things, including a growth spurt that she is currently in now, eating and sleeping and what not. So for now I have to say that Two is not terrible at all, just an adjustment to our growing little/ big girl.
Because our Addie Mae was turning two we decided to throw her two birthday parties...just kidding, well we did have 2 parties, but we aren' ballin' like that. It's just that in my brain state I just wasn't thinking while planning a birthday party to celebrate our first miracle's 2nd year of life that we would have a house full of people with our oh so tiny second miracle being so fresh in her life. So I freaked (all this even being prior to our stay at Brenner's) and wanted to cancel the whole shebang. But I had already addressed all of the invites, so we decided to have a small family get together at an open area and postpone her party party a few weeks to let Cara get out of the danger zone of her age. I am so glad we did that too, because the next weekend we were in the hospital with our newborn beauty, but that's a whole other story... Addie had a great time at both of her parties, lots of love was shown and our little got to party it down twice!
Party #1
Two years ago our worlds flipped upside down when we had the most amazing little girl! Wow I still can't believe that it has been 2 years! It seems like only yesterday, but here are a few things that show just how grown up our little baby has become....
Not actually counting but I would say that there is at least 200 words in her vocabulary and she easily puts 4-6 word sentences together. Lately she has really gotten good at using and. She takes instructions with stride, 75% of the time follows them without a second prompting not to mention replies to them with "oh sure!". We have been working on "yes ma'am and yes sir" and if I may say so she is doing really well with them. She doesn't say them without prompting yet, but will say them after instructed it's only a matter of time before she has it down on her own. She is in the beginning stages of saying her own prayers at night (thanks to her Daddy for teaching her how), and she automatically takes our hands before eating dinner so that we can bless our food.
She can read a few words we think. She has read them to us on occasion, but we are still trying to figure out if those instances were just flukes or not. Anyway, cow, cat, hat, pig and of course hi are the ones she has read to us.
Coming immediately when "baby Cara" cries to put her paci in her mouth (carefully not to touch the nipple). Making sure that she has a blanket to cover her up and that Mommy or Daddy is equipped with a burp cloth when need be. She keeps and eye on her while we are in the car, letting us know what she is doing. She now has fully gotten into mommy hood role playing, the other day I caught her nursing "baby Addie" (she has a baby Addie and a baby Cara). She takes really good care of them, feeding, changing, bathing, rocking, taking them shopping... She is such a wonderful big sister!
She is so aware and by aware I mean she only needs to hear or see something once and she doesn't forget it. Just today when Chris was referencing me while talking to his sister he called me Amanda...the smarty pants that we have on our hands heard him, put it together and has been calling me Amanda-Mommy all night. To retaliate, I told her what Daddy's name was... I was singing to her earlier (like I always have) and I was just singing her name to different tunes well I was saying "Addie, Addie, Adeline Maize..." and she automatically started calling herself Adeline Maize. Last month she would gladly introduce herself to anyone as Addie Hughes, she now knows that her full name is Adeline Maize Hughes. To top that off Baby Cara who is Baby Cara, Baby Caraline, Cara, Caraline, Caraboo, Caraline Hughes at any other time is now Caraline Rayne Hughes. Something that really amazes me is how aware she is of what she is saying, for instance when Chris asked her to tell me who was coming this weekend she started to say baby Car-then she stopped halfway through-corrected herself and said "baby Kaitlyn". Also this weekend she was talking to Grams and when she went to address her she said "Grandma, um Grams" again she corrected herself, what a smart little girl. She sees and usually turns around and does, at the moment I can only think of examples that I didn't witness, but my MIL said that as she was helping my FIL pack their stuff up, Addie immediately started mimicking them. She like I said before knows that Baby Cara eats from Mommy's boobies and has illustrated that by nursing her baby also (she also verbalizes her knowledge of this at times). She is constantly watching and listening to us and learning. This means that I now have to be on top of things when she is around, because she is very aware.
Two years old has been great thus far, with lots of new things, including a growth spurt that she is currently in now, eating and sleeping and what not. So for now I have to say that Two is not terrible at all, just an adjustment to our growing little/ big girl.
Because our Addie Mae was turning two we decided to throw her two birthday parties...just kidding, well we did have 2 parties, but we aren' ballin' like that. It's just that in my brain state I just wasn't thinking while planning a birthday party to celebrate our first miracle's 2nd year of life that we would have a house full of people with our oh so tiny second miracle being so fresh in her life. So I freaked (all this even being prior to our stay at Brenner's) and wanted to cancel the whole shebang. But I had already addressed all of the invites, so we decided to have a small family get together at an open area and postpone her party party a few weeks to let Cara get out of the danger zone of her age. I am so glad we did that too, because the next weekend we were in the hospital with our newborn beauty, but that's a whole other story... Addie had a great time at both of her parties, lots of love was shown and our little got to party it down twice!
Party #1
Party #2
She had her 2 year check up and she weighed in the 23rd percentile at 24lbs 8oz. Measured 34 3/4 inches in the 88.4 percentile and her head circumference was a whopping 48cm! Dr. Wiley said that somehow she doesn't think that Addie will mind being tall and slender. At her height now by the time she stops growing she should be somewhere between 5'9" and 6', where in the world did she get that height from? As much as we aren't into the modeling scene, something tells me she is going that route, with those legs she could rock it out I do believe!
Growin' up
Every morning between 6:30am and 7:30am Addie wakes up. When she does so, she comes into our room and gets into bed with us to watch cartoons until we get up. Yesterday morning we got up, she ran into her room and came back with her Cookie Monster slippers and an Ariel nightgown. Then she held up her slippers and says "Got, Cookie Monster shoes" and held up her nightgown and said " and wear Addie dress." "Go outside". Oh my goodness, is she really getting so grown up that she now can pick out her own clothes?!
Friday, April 8, 2011
Our first Brenner's visit
The Saturday after Cara turned 2 weeks old her eye started running and gooping up all of a sudden. I would wipe it and then it would goop right back up. Then I noticed that she seemed a little stuffy so I sprayed her nose with saline spray and she stopped breathing! As I freaked out she struggled to get her breath back (scariest time EVER)!! Once she calmed down I started feeding her then about 2 sips in she choked and stopped breathing AGAIN! This time I managed to scream for Chris, she was just getting her breath back when he got to us, but I wasn't going to just let all of that go so I called the after hours nurse. Why is it that they always get sick on the weekends?? So I had to call give my number and wait for a nurse to call me back...By this time, she couldn't even open her eye up. The nurse called back, I explained what had happened and she said that she would have to call the dr. on call. I'm thinking ok they will have us go in and be seen, NOPE she called back and said that the dr. on call wanted us to take her to the ER at Baptist! One of the worst things for a mother to hear! Luckily Sabrina and Dustin had come over for dinner that night so we were able to just go and leave Addie with them.
When we got to the Hospital Chris let me out while he went and parked. I got us signed in and we sat in the waiting room, luckily we only sat for a minute or two before they called us back. I think they work faster when it has to do with babies. Good thing too because I really didn't like having her sit in that ER with all of those sick people around! I would never wish an ER visit on any parent especially one with their infant child, but although we were in the ER the staff was really great. The nurses were very conscious of Chris and I, especially me and my emotional state. They explained everything to us as they did it. They had to take a whole bunch of samples like snot, urine, eye drainage etc..Then they had to take blood and insert an IV line...I tear up just thinking about that moment when they had to do all of that to my newborn baby. Oh and we find out during this process that Cara is allergic to the clear tape they use to tape the splint to her, so they had to re tape everything with the paper tape.
We had dr. after dr. coming in having to have the story told and retold, with WFBMC a school we had lots of people around learning, asking and so forth. Not that I minded, because the worst part was when they just left us sitting in the room by ourselves, so it was nice to have some sort of medical professional around most all of the time. Then one of the residents came in to talk to us...She explained that with a child that small they have to react to any sign of infection whatsoever. Then she uttered the last thing that I ever wanted to hear, something that I have feared since Addie was a newborn, a spinal tap! That was the only way that they would be able to tell if in fact there was an infection and if so what they would need to do to treat it. Then she explained how it was going to go, how long it would take and we could stay if we would like, but most parents didn't, because they didn't want to witness their child having to be restrained. Well I did what any mother in my position would do, I sat down. There was no way I was going to get up and leave my baby in there by herself! When you are a mother you set aside the excruciating pain that you feel to protect( as best you can) your children. I may have been completely crumbling inside, but wanting to witness it or not I had to be there for her, I just couldn't leave her...Then as Chris was pleading with me to go outside with him and I was protesting the nurse decides to chime in and play the sterile card (how did she know me like that??). She proceeds to tell me that it is best that I wait outside because everything has to be really sterile for the process, well I couldn't argue with that now could I, so reluctantly I stepped out with my husband.
What seemed to be a lifetime of waiting later; they finally came out and got us, as we walked back in the Dr. gets this look of sorrow on her face, they tried twice, but couldn't get any fluid...So what did this mean? Were they going to have to go through the process all over again or were we just not going to know exactly what was wrong. If you know me at all you should know that I have to have specific details, so not knowing didn't ease my worries at all. But did I really want my baby girl to have to go through that again and could I even stand to be away form her any longer?!? Well she took us back into the room where Cara was and I scooped her up as the dr. explained our options. Since they couldn't get any fluid they decided to just start her on a few different antibiotics and admit her.
The dr.s and nurses were simply amazing, they took such good care of us from start to finish and you could really tell that they cared. The way they would stop and gaze into her eyes (not just because she had goop in one of them) they would examine her and then stop for a moment each time to rub her head and stare into her deep blue eyes. Everyone who came in to check on her did this and there were so many different people checking on her, it just made me(as a mother) feel so good about the care that she was getting. We even had a speech therapist come in to monitor her eating. She checked all of her reflexes and determined that the reason she had stopped breathing was a result of reflux.
After 48 hours they had gotten all of her test results back and they were all normal so we were discharged, God is so good. Thankfully there wasn't anything major wrong but if there was I would know that we were in good hands. They rated our admittance as a potential life threatening situation which is something that happened to scare us bad enough to bring her in which scares them bad enough to keep her. I am thankful that they ran all of the tests they did to make sure that she was okay to go back home with us without any complications.
When we got to the Hospital Chris let me out while he went and parked. I got us signed in and we sat in the waiting room, luckily we only sat for a minute or two before they called us back. I think they work faster when it has to do with babies. Good thing too because I really didn't like having her sit in that ER with all of those sick people around! I would never wish an ER visit on any parent especially one with their infant child, but although we were in the ER the staff was really great. The nurses were very conscious of Chris and I, especially me and my emotional state. They explained everything to us as they did it. They had to take a whole bunch of samples like snot, urine, eye drainage etc..Then they had to take blood and insert an IV line...I tear up just thinking about that moment when they had to do all of that to my newborn baby. Oh and we find out during this process that Cara is allergic to the clear tape they use to tape the splint to her, so they had to re tape everything with the paper tape.
We had dr. after dr. coming in having to have the story told and retold, with WFBMC a school we had lots of people around learning, asking and so forth. Not that I minded, because the worst part was when they just left us sitting in the room by ourselves, so it was nice to have some sort of medical professional around most all of the time. Then one of the residents came in to talk to us...She explained that with a child that small they have to react to any sign of infection whatsoever. Then she uttered the last thing that I ever wanted to hear, something that I have feared since Addie was a newborn, a spinal tap! That was the only way that they would be able to tell if in fact there was an infection and if so what they would need to do to treat it. Then she explained how it was going to go, how long it would take and we could stay if we would like, but most parents didn't, because they didn't want to witness their child having to be restrained. Well I did what any mother in my position would do, I sat down. There was no way I was going to get up and leave my baby in there by herself! When you are a mother you set aside the excruciating pain that you feel to protect( as best you can) your children. I may have been completely crumbling inside, but wanting to witness it or not I had to be there for her, I just couldn't leave her...Then as Chris was pleading with me to go outside with him and I was protesting the nurse decides to chime in and play the sterile card (how did she know me like that??). She proceeds to tell me that it is best that I wait outside because everything has to be really sterile for the process, well I couldn't argue with that now could I, so reluctantly I stepped out with my husband.
What seemed to be a lifetime of waiting later; they finally came out and got us, as we walked back in the Dr. gets this look of sorrow on her face, they tried twice, but couldn't get any fluid...So what did this mean? Were they going to have to go through the process all over again or were we just not going to know exactly what was wrong. If you know me at all you should know that I have to have specific details, so not knowing didn't ease my worries at all. But did I really want my baby girl to have to go through that again and could I even stand to be away form her any longer?!? Well she took us back into the room where Cara was and I scooped her up as the dr. explained our options. Since they couldn't get any fluid they decided to just start her on a few different antibiotics and admit her.
The dr.s and nurses were simply amazing, they took such good care of us from start to finish and you could really tell that they cared. The way they would stop and gaze into her eyes (not just because she had goop in one of them) they would examine her and then stop for a moment each time to rub her head and stare into her deep blue eyes. Everyone who came in to check on her did this and there were so many different people checking on her, it just made me(as a mother) feel so good about the care that she was getting. We even had a speech therapist come in to monitor her eating. She checked all of her reflexes and determined that the reason she had stopped breathing was a result of reflux.
After 48 hours they had gotten all of her test results back and they were all normal so we were discharged, God is so good. Thankfully there wasn't anything major wrong but if there was I would know that we were in good hands. They rated our admittance as a potential life threatening situation which is something that happened to scare us bad enough to bring her in which scares them bad enough to keep her. I am thankful that they ran all of the tests they did to make sure that she was okay to go back home with us without any complications.
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