NICU Detour

Well, we didn't avoid another NICU stay.  Luckily this one was way shorter and much less intense.  The late afternoon after Millie was born I noticed that she was grunting weird.  Since our friends found their son's heart defect because he was grunting and because Millie was "technically" premature (she was born the day before the full term mark) we decided to have her checked.

She was taken to the NICU and put on CPAP for an hour, had a couple of tests done to check for heart problems and had a septic work up done.  She ended up being fine except that one of the infection tests (CRP) was elevated.  It was decided that she would be given a round of broad-range IV antibiotics for 2 days as a precaution.  An IV was placed and she came back down to the mother-baby unit with me.  The day I was discharged the CRP was still slightly elevated so she was sent to the NICU for 3 more days of antibiotics.

This NICU stay was much less intense than Johnny's stay but it sure brought back lots of horrible emotions and worries.  She didn't even have any neonatologists following her, just her pediatrician.  We ended up staying an extra 12 hours to work through some feeding issues.  She is home now and happy as a clam!  She is such a good baby.  Very peaceful and content.  She just needs to gain some weight!