Sickness
Dealing with sick babies is never something anyone wants to do, as if parenting wasn’t hard enough. First off, it’s draining taking care of sick babies. They really cannot do anything for themselves, so you must be there to help them every step of the way. Second, seeing them sick breaks your heart.
This week Kinzley has been sick. She never ran a fever, but she was vomiting, had diarrhea, wouldn’t eat or drink very much at all, and was very tired. This all started early Sunday morning around 4am.
Since she wasn’t keeping anything down and wasn’t drinking much to make up for the loss of fluids, I took her into the ER on Tuesday. They monitored her and gave her some Zofran and Ibuprofen. She perked up and was wanting to eat and drink at that point, so we were sent home with a RX of Zofran. She ended up throwing up the next morning everything that was in her stomach from the night before.
Thursday came around and she woke up with a rash behind her ears. As the morning went on the rash spread down her stomach and down her back. She wasn’t doing too hot, to say the least. I left work and took her back into the ER. They decided to go ahead with an IV since she was dehydrated. They tried 6 times to administer an IV but was not successful. Baby girl was done at this point and wanted nothing more than to just be left alone, who could blame her. We ended up getting transferred to a larger hospital that had a pediatric floor in hopes that they could get an IV started for her.
Long story short, they were not able to successfully get an IV. They poked twice but decided her veins were not going to work for an IV. Next step was a NG tube. If you don’t know what that is, it is a small tube that gets inserted in the nose and goes down your throat all the way into your tummy. Watching them put that in was a sight. They tried twice with the size of tube they would put in a NICU baby, but Kinzley kept gagging on it making it curl up in her mouth instead of going into her tummy. They had to size up and get one that had a small wire in it so it would be more firm going down. Once they got the NG tube in and started fluids it was a waiting game to see if she would perk up.
We ended up staying two nights in the hospital. My husband would come to see us when he was done with work and then leave at night so he could be home with the boys. Kinzley and I got some good mommy and daughter time!
They took the NG tube out Friday night, once she had enough fluids. Luckily, she was able to eat and wanted to drink as well once the tube was out. She had a great dinner! I’m guessing it didn’t taste as good when it came back up at 1:30am though. They gave her some Zofran and assured me that if she had a good number of wet diapers and was drinking fluids on her own that she would be able to go home Saturday.
Luckily, she still had an appetite and was drinking when she woke up Saturday. We got released and were home around 2pm! They were able to test her stool and it came back that she had a virus. There’s not much you can do about a virus, as you know. They also said that sometimes babies get kicked in the rear when it comes to viruses and that they have been seeing that a lot recently.
So even though she is still not feeling well, she is at least wanting to eat, drink, and play for a short period until she wants cuddles again. The doctors told us that viruses can last up to 10 days, so we are hoping by Wednesday she is in the clear.
We have dealt with different sicknesses in the last couple years like RSV, croup, strider, COVID, thrush, and ear infections. I’m just glad that Kinzley is feeling a little better and that we are home. Seeing her play and love spending time outside was such a relief after being stuck in a hospital room.
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