Emmaleighclaire

Emmaleigh got very sick and had to be hospitalized. Recently she had a few loose stools. I didn't think much of it other than a virus that would pass. I'm a mother of five so I don't run to the doctor at every little sneeze. We all have been though those moments where our stool aren't "normal" but we quickly get though them and no treatment is needed. Emma was her normal self. She didn't show any other sign that she was even sick. Wednesday we went to a party for my aunt. Emmaleigh was fine. She ran around looked at the fishy was a happy normal little girl. We got home from the party late. We put the other kids down. I nursed her to sleep layed her in my bed. I got on the computer while she was asleep to just get a few things done before going to bed myself and I was on the phone with a friend. Darin come in to move Zack to his bed at that point we realized the room didn't smell of roses. Emmaleigh had pooped the bed. I told my friend I had to go and we changed the bed and the baby. I sat back down and nursed her bad to sleep. As I was getting ready to get up and bring her to bed she threw up everywhere Linda Blaire style. I changed her yet again and went and got a bed pad out of the closet. I got back in bed with her. I knew she had a 11:15 well appointment at the doctor anyway. She slept threw the night, which she hasn't done since birth. When I woke up at 7am she had pooped the bed again during the night. I cleaned it up and tried to lay down with her for a little more sleep. a few minutes later she threw up, the pad caught most of it. SO we moved to the other side of the bed when she threw up on me again. So at the point it was over. I striped the bed. Got her in the tub as well as myself. Darin got the kids off the school. Poor thing was standing up with her head resting on the ledge of the tub. I called the doctor to have her seen sooner than 11:15 she didn't look good at all. She threw up a few more times before we could get to the doctor and was going through the motions but nothing was coming up. I sat in the back with her. I had a cloth diaper ready to catch her throw up. We got to the doctors for our 9:30am appointment. She had lost a pound since her last visit only about 10 days ago. The doctor said she was dehydrated and need to go to the hospital. We were sent to the hospital. They started an IV which she didn't even cry for. They also took some blood. and decided to admit her. I nursed her as she got her first bag of IV in the Er. As soon as we got upstairs to the ped floor she threw up. So i was told at that point I needed to not nurse her cause her tummy needed a rest. I didn't know if that was best or not, but I listened. They brought me a elertic pump so I pumped for the 5 hours that they wouldn't let me nurse her, which really isn't that long for a 19 month old we gone that long on a busy day. around dinner time they let me nurse her again and she kept that down. They took stool samples. They had a crib, hospital bed and parent cot. They told me I could do what ever I was most comfortable with and allowed me to co sleep with her no fuss. They even sent me free comp trays of meals for myself. They sent her diapers since they wanted to weigh all her diapers. The stool sample came back negative for roto visus. At first they thought it was juts a stomach bug, but then came back positive for Clostrimdum diffrele. Which is a reaction to an antibiotics. It just something that happens sometime and cause and infection in the colon. She was watched until her throwing up stopped diarrhea got better. She still having loose stools, but as much as we tried she wouldn't take solids so we finally came to realized the stools changed and weren't stinky anymore so they were more breast milk only stools. I am so thankful she was still breastfeeding since that is all she would take they would have kept as longer if she wasn't taken anything. We were let go home Saturday afternoon and since we got home she has started eating more solids. I think she is on the up hill road to her old self. I had some wonderful friends who kept us in there thoughts and prays and as much as I hated being in the hospital and I hate hospital this one treated us very good. She pooped the bed one night at 3am everyone was in there helping with us. We had very good food or maybe i should say I did since Emma didn't want to eat any of it. Anything I need was giving to me including a scrub shirt when she threw up on me. I missed Alex, Cameron, Bella, & Zack alot, but it wax nice to get one on one time with just Emma and I and with nothing to do but play and take care of her. I'm so glad we are home now. I thank everyone for there calls and texts to keep me sane. and Emma is much better now.

warning nursing and IV pictures........