Eric(a) Baron + 3 + 1: Emma's First Hospital Stay

Monday, January 6, 2014

Emma's First Hospital Stay

This is Emma's first hospital stay, not counting the 3 times she went back right after she came home from the NICU. She was getting sick and not eating very much so we took her to the Doctor and they thought she might have pneumonia so they wanted to admit her. They ended up doing a chest x-ray and blood work and later found out that it wasn't pneumonia but RSV. It wasn't too bad in the hospital. She had to get breathing treatments a few times but then they stopped when they found out it was just RSV. She was also on O2 during the day which wasn't anything new to us. We only had to stay there 2 nights so it wasn't too bad.

This is the first day. We/she had a lot of string cheese, brownies, bread, and french fries, as you can tell in the second picture

Emma and I watching a movie

She also got to have a bath in the tub. I felt bad because we had to tape up her arm so her I.V. wouldn't get wet. But it was better than nothing.

By morning of the next day she was laying sideways in her bed

Watching a movie and eating her bottle

In a little bag of activities that the hospital gave her there was a thing of play-dough and she just used it to put her crayons in instead

The bag was a Cat in the Hat bag and it had sparkly heart stickers in it that she thought it was fun to stick on the bag

Later that day we were able to go for a little walk out in the lobby because she was finally unhooked from her I.V. but she had to wear a mask because she was considered contagious.

She was really tired towards the end of the night since she didn't get to take a very good nap so she fell asleep while eating her bottle. She wouldn't let me take it out so I had to prop it up with my foot.

The next day, she decided she wanted to get up early and watch Monster's University (which we watched a TON while we were there) and eat some string cheese.