I couldn't believe I still had energy with all the lack
of sleep I had. From Not sleeping all night from
Labor pains and giving birth to a Handsome little man.
To feeding him all night long. I do really LOVE being a mom.
It finally started to settle in I am a mother now. No greater
blessing in the world. I have loved my little guy.
He is so good. He doesn't cry when he is hungry. Just a
few "ughs" here and there. Small fusses that don't sound
like fusses. It was interesting to hear all the babies
cry at night and my little guy for sure hadn't cried like that
once.
It was fun getting pictures of him in the
morning with all his facial
expressions. He is SUPER cute!
During the whole day he had been sleeping the whole time.
The day went from a perfect morning to a frustrating day to end
with a terrible night. Let me begin with this story. In the morning
it was a great way to start off any day with cues's and awe's.
I was enjoying my little family. Then my baby fell asleep. He wasn't
hungry, just because he was eating literally all night long.
The Nurse was getting mad at me and told me I was terrible
and that I was starving my baby. She put my baby in time out for
45 min. She also told me that we would have to feed him by a tub.
Just a horrible nurse. She took a sugar test on my baby to see if
it was low. Which it wasn't! She ordered a lactation nurse to
come in to see me. I was talking with the lactation nurse and
she told me I wasn't doing anything wrong and obviously
I knew how to feed my baby. She mentioned that my little
one played all night and now wants to sleep and he was just
fine. Which eased my mind. I didn't feel like a horrible mother.
When they had switched shifts and we got a new nurse I was
telling her my baby wasn't acting normal and she needed to
clean his nose and she let me know that she wasn't going to
clean out his nose, because it was probably just Inflammation.
I was kind of frustrated because it had been a full 24 hours since
he was born and why would inflammation finally be showing up
now and not 12 hours ago???
She came back into the room closer to dinner and my little
guy had already been gasping for air and his nose was
getting worse. I had her listen to him and she said
"OH MY that isn't normal." She called the pediatrician
and ordered an X-Ray and Blood tests. She took my little
one and Kenton and I fell asleep. My mom came and we
visited her for a little bit. Then I had her take Kenton out to
eat. He really needed to get out of the hospital. I ordered me
some food while they were out. My little guy came back.
I held him and didn't want to let him go. My dinner came and
I couldn't eat at all. I tried and just couldn't even think about it.
The nurse came back in (with concern) and asked if she
could take the baby to the nursery so I could eat and I told
her No, and that it was alright. I couldn't possibly part with
him, when he couldn't breath. It BROKE my heart listening
to him. She soon came in and told me that the Pediatrician
was in and wanted to take a look at him. She took him and
I think I took just a few bites of my meal and couldn't eat any
more. I sat around and waited 15 min. and wondered where
my little guy was and how he was doing.
I started to walk down the hall and I saw my hubby walking
down the hallway coming back to the room. I told him
our little sport was in the nursery with the pediatrician.
He went with me and we saw the doctor and the nurse talking
and they didn't have happy faces.
It looked like they were more concerned.
The doctor started to come out to find us, and saw us in the
hall way and asked if we were the parents, then continued
to tell us what was wrong. He mentioned that he found
a lot of black stuff in his nose. Our Dr. said that he thought
it was Meconium (which is where a baby has a bowel movement
before it is born). But it probably wasn't, just because it
wasn't in the charts. The Dr. then didn't know what it was.
He mentioned that the nurse will have to clean his nose out
frequently and we will have to do this for the next 2 to 3 days.
He was happy that the hospital called him, he didn't think
our sweet baby would have made it through the night, if they
didn't deep clean it out that night.
The nurse came into our room and apologized for not
acting sooner and mentioned that it's usually just inflammation
and it sounded like just inflammation. I accepted her apology and
I was just happy that we caught it when we did. She was defiantly
super nice to me for the rest of her shift. I think she was a little
scared that I would sue her.
The shifts changed again and I had a different nurse by 3AM.
I noticed my little boy was starting to struggle with his breathing
again and I asked the nurse if she could clean out his nose.
She said she wasn't going to do that because "it's
probably just inflammation and if I suction it, it would only make
it worse". I was frustrated and asked again to have her to clean out
my babies nose and asked if she had read my babies charts and mentioned
that the dr. came and told her the full story. She slightly cleaned it
and said "Ok it's clean" She didn't touch it the rest of the
time we were there. No matter how many times I asked her.
Finally I was in tears because my baby literally couldn't breath and
He spit up and it got stuck in his throat
and he started to choking on his
spit up. I started to freak out and cried even more. I finally
got him to start breathing again. I told her what happened
and she had an attitude and told me "Next time suck it out
and put him on his stomach and pat it out. He's fine that
happens" No it doesn't always happen like that!!! I've seen
a baby spit up and kind of choke. This was totally different.
She asked if we wanted to be discharged early? I told her Yes!
I wanted to get out of that dang hospital with all the
crazy nurses. We were all packed and a different pediatrician
came in. Can I say he was a little Cookie, and didn't know anything?
He came in I told him what was going on. He could obviously
hear that the sounds my baby was making wasn't normal, yet
he did NOTHING! He said "He sounds fine" and sent us
on our way. We got our little sport in his car seat. Started
down the hall and listened to him cry and gasp for air.
The CNA would say "Awe that poor little guy, he sounds terrible."
YES Ya think so? Why wont you clean it out?
We got to the car and I ended up sitting in the back with my
baby. I started to cry on the way home and told my husband
"Our baby can't breath" He said "He's breathing" I replied "Yes,
but he struggling". We were literally 3 min. away from home and
our little sport stopped breathing completely. His face went blue, purple,
his lips went gray. I started to scream and tried to open his mouth.
He wouldn't! I tried to get his seat belt off to see if I could get him to
breath. I was telling my husband "HE STOPPED BREATHING!!!".
We were then 1 min. away from home. Then his eyes rolled to the back
of his head. I got his seat belt off. We pulled into the driveway and
he gave out a HUGE cry. I told my husband "Oh good his color is
coming back, HURRY get him into the house." I took my sweet
baby and went up the stairs quickly. Had my husband RUN to the
store to buy saline. I tried to clean his nose out. I didn't get
anything out. I saw that he had thick black crusty's in his nose.
I saw a tooth pic at the end of a dental floss and started digging
in his nose, while he was struggling to breath. I got one side out
then the other side out and my little guy went completely quiet and
fell asleep. Poor little guy. He was so tired from fighting with
his breathing. I called my husband to let him know that he
was breathing and he was finally asleep.
Kenton said that he bought the saline. I was so happy my
husband was almost home. I never want to relive that experience
ever again! So glad my little bug is ok.
