Hospital trip

I brought Ethan to the doctor on Wed morning, because his nose was really congested and he could not breathe well. He also was not feeding as much as usual. The doctor took his temp and it was 100.4 F. This is the cutoff, so anytime in the first 3 months of life, babies are suppsed to go to the Emergency Room.

So I packed him in the SUV and drove to the ER down the street. The poor little guy had to go through so much. They had to take a urine sample through a catheter, take a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia, do a spinal tap to rule out meningitis, take a blood sample and put in an IV for antibiotics. Which by the way took them 7 attempts before they could get the IV in!!! Not only was he in pain and not happy, I was getting really frustrated with them as well.

The protocol at Mayo is to keep any infant under the age of 1 month with a fever in the hospital for 48 hours for observation. Once we got to the room, he fever was down and it stayed down till we left today (Friday). So that is great news, and all his tests came back negative for a bacterial infection.

So the doctors think that he must have just developed a little cold with a fever. Ever since the day we checked in, he is looking better, feeding better and has not had a temperature since.

It was really hard to se him go through all the tests and getting poked so many times, but I am relieved that we know for sure that nothing is wrong with him.

So we will go to our doctor next week for a follow up.