Hospital

 

Brecken woke up with a little fever the day of her blessing, but we thought it would go down quickly. By the end of the day it hadn't gone down, so we called the pediatrician to see if we needed to bring her in. He said yes, and we both thought he would check her out and send us home. Little did we know that we were going to spend the next few days in the hospital. After running a bunch of tests with negative results, the doctor sent us to the hospital for more tests. The first few hours were awful. The nurses had an extremely difficult time placing the IV because Brecken is so little and chubby. They poked both her hands and feet multiple times before calling the NICU nurses to finish. The only vein left was on her little head. It was the saddest thing I've ever seen. Brecken cried so hard she threw up. Placing the catheter was almost as bad and they had to call the NICU nurses again. I hate to even think about it. We got there at 9:30 and they finished poking her at 2:30! My dad came to visit us the next day and we were all sleeping. He took pictures of us and left and we still didn't wake up! They determined that Brecken probably has a UTI, but since they're so uncommon in infant girls and her fever didn't go down with the antibiotics, we have to take her to Primary Children's to get an ultrasound and run more tests to find out if something is wrong with her anatomy. She also has to be on antibiotics for SIX months!!! JP and I are still a little confused as to why she had to stay in the hospital for three days, but better safe than sorry. Brecken was such a trooper and smiled and giggled most of the time. I was really glad that we got to be with her the whole time and it was actually kind of nice to take a break from work to be with my baby.