Lauren Takes a Trip To Texas Children's Hospital

Poor little Lauren got pretty sick last week with what we've been told was probably a stomach virus. Late Wednesday afternoon, out of now where, Lauren threw up. She seemed fine, so we gave her a bath and went on about our business. She refused her 7pm bottle and then threw up a little more. By 11pm she was throwing up at times every 5-10 minutes and was pretty miserable. We made a call to the pediatrician who told us just to give her small amounts of pedialyte for the rest of the evening and for the entire next day. We followed those instructions and once Lauren seemed to indicate that she was no longer going to give back, we tried her formula. She wanted no part of it and would only take sips at a time. We figured it was just her stomach still acting up but by Saturday we still weren't able to get her to drink more than 1 ounce at a time (she usually takes 6) and even that was a struggle. The last bottle that she had finished and kept down was Wednesday's noon bottle and with our trio's history of tummy issues (pyloric stenosis, NEC, reflux, etc) we decided it was time to call the doctor again. The nurse told Patrick that it was probably an ear or throat infection and that we should get her down to Texas Children's Hospital. We waited until after her next bottle to make sure that she really needed to go to the ER but when our attempts were again rejected, we loaded her up and headed down to the medical center.

We got to the hosptial around 7:30pm. They checked her vitals and she had a slight fever (which she had been running off and on for a few days) and she just looked puny. We waited a few hours and by the time we were seen by a doctor, she was drinking 3 ounces of formula and her temperature was a perfect 98.6. They checked her ears, her throat and found nothing. Just to be sure, they got us some more formula to watch her eat and of course she drank another 3 ounces without any hesistation. We were on our way home a little after midnight! What cured her so fast??? I think that the second she realized she was back in the hopsital she perked up. They took her temperature in her bum (which surprisingly was a first for her, in the NICU they use the underarm method) and talked about possibly needing to start an IV for dehydration. Apparently that was enough for her and ever since she has been eating much better and isn't nearly as fussy!


P.S.
Our weekend ended on a good note, visiting Grammie's house for the FIRST time!!! We plan on making that part of our Sunday routine...thanks for hosting us Grammie and Aunt Pammie!

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