Today Miranda I slept in a little before going to see Brayden in the NICU. When we got there, Linda the receptionist told us that the little baby I mentioned before was not doing well, his name is baby Joos (last name). She told us that we could go back but that they may ask us to leave. When you hear things like that and then see all the curtains drawn in a room it is never a good sign. I can' even begin to explain the mood in the room. On one hand you want to be happy and talk to your baby, but less than 20 feet away a family is saying goodbye to theirs. It is a position Miranda and I were in several times with Payton, but bye the grace of GOD he always pulled through. I hope that the Joos family has the same luck we did.
Last night was a little scary for us because the nurse told us that she could not get him to cool down. When we were there yesterday morning, Brayden was running a pretty high fever. At one point Miranda was taking his temperature and the thermometer started at 99.5 and kept going up. The nurse was standing there and said,"Ok that's enough, we need to cool him down." When we spoke with the nurse that night and she told us that he was still hot, we began to get really worried. She told us that she would change out his Isolette because I felt there was a problem with the heating element or the temp sensor. She also took his little CPAP hat and turned it into a bandanna by cutting the top off so he could release some heat through his head.
Today we got there and like I said there was an eerie tension in the room, but the nurse told us that she wanted us to hold him, so we did. Miranda did the Kangaroo Care, which is skin to skin contact with your baby. He loved it and so did Miranda. She looked down at him and just under the brim of his hat she saw something black so she pulled his hat up and he was just staring up at her. His big eyes just pointed up staring at the source of warmth and love. We sat there and looked at him, a couple of times while we were talking to him he looked at us and smiled. A true little baby smile that showed he was happy where he was. While holding him his CPAP popped out of his nose twice and he began to desat so we had to put him back in his bed. We left to go to the family room so Miranda could pump.
When we came back and stopped at the front desk for some labels the nurse told us that the doctor was coming to talk to us. Miranda said well we can go back there and meet her, again the nurse said no she is coming up here just wait a minute. Miranda was starting to get worried, then she said you don't want us going back there and the nurse said yeah there's something going on back there. The doctor came up and told us that she ordered a chest xray and some blood and urine test run on Brayden. She said that he looked like he was tugging a little bit to hard when he was breathing and that the nurse had said his urine was smelling really bad. The doctor said that she was not overly concerned but she would rather be overly cautious.
As we were driving home she called and said that the chest xray came back beautifully but that his urine sample showed white blood cells in it. She went on to explain that this could be a Urinary tract Infection or something more serious like a Kidney Infection and that she was going to start him on broad spectrum antibiotics and then try and grow the urine culture to see exactly what they are dealing with. From our point of view right now, we are glad to hear his chest xray looks so good but as we get one piece of good news, we have something else to worry about. As we learn more about this new development, I will update the blog.
Last night was a little scary for us because the nurse told us that she could not get him to cool down. When we were there yesterday morning, Brayden was running a pretty high fever. At one point Miranda was taking his temperature and the thermometer started at 99.5 and kept going up. The nurse was standing there and said,"Ok that's enough, we need to cool him down." When we spoke with the nurse that night and she told us that he was still hot, we began to get really worried. She told us that she would change out his Isolette because I felt there was a problem with the heating element or the temp sensor. She also took his little CPAP hat and turned it into a bandanna by cutting the top off so he could release some heat through his head.
Today we got there and like I said there was an eerie tension in the room, but the nurse told us that she wanted us to hold him, so we did. Miranda did the Kangaroo Care, which is skin to skin contact with your baby. He loved it and so did Miranda. She looked down at him and just under the brim of his hat she saw something black so she pulled his hat up and he was just staring up at her. His big eyes just pointed up staring at the source of warmth and love. We sat there and looked at him, a couple of times while we were talking to him he looked at us and smiled. A true little baby smile that showed he was happy where he was. While holding him his CPAP popped out of his nose twice and he began to desat so we had to put him back in his bed. We left to go to the family room so Miranda could pump.
When we came back and stopped at the front desk for some labels the nurse told us that the doctor was coming to talk to us. Miranda said well we can go back there and meet her, again the nurse said no she is coming up here just wait a minute. Miranda was starting to get worried, then she said you don't want us going back there and the nurse said yeah there's something going on back there. The doctor came up and told us that she ordered a chest xray and some blood and urine test run on Brayden. She said that he looked like he was tugging a little bit to hard when he was breathing and that the nurse had said his urine was smelling really bad. The doctor said that she was not overly concerned but she would rather be overly cautious.
As we were driving home she called and said that the chest xray came back beautifully but that his urine sample showed white blood cells in it. She went on to explain that this could be a Urinary tract Infection or something more serious like a Kidney Infection and that she was going to start him on broad spectrum antibiotics and then try and grow the urine culture to see exactly what they are dealing with. From our point of view right now, we are glad to hear his chest xray looks so good but as we get one piece of good news, we have something else to worry about. As we learn more about this new development, I will update the blog.
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