Home from the Hospital

It has been a very long 13 days but I am so happy to say that Mia is home from the hospital. She was released at about 3:45 pm today. Mia was given a very special 1 month birthday gift from the doctors by being allowed to come home today. She is doing so well! She was sent home with 5 more doses of antibiotics to take over the next 2 days. Other than that we are in the clear and can go back to our normal routines.

Granny dressing Mia to come home

More getting dressed

Granny loves Mia so much! Can you tell?

All strapped in ready to go

Why are we still here?

Finally home in her swing where she belongs

She is fascinated with the bears on her swing

More Hospital Pictures

Mia in the Hospital Part 4

Well, we are now on day 11 of our hospital stay. Mia is doing wonderfully. However we still can't go home. I am very upset over this. We can't seem to get a straight answer from anyone when she can go home. It started at 7-10 days then went to 14 days then we were told she was half way done with her 10 day course of antibiotics meaning she could go home on tomorrow. Today the doctor comes in and tells me that they are going to do 14 days worth. I told him I want her out of here because she is fine. He goes back to the excuse that she had a dose of antibiotics before she had her spinal tap so she could still have meningitis and they just want to be careful. WHATEVER!!!! If she had it she would have showed signs by now. I'm so thankful this place was here to help my baby girl but now I feel like they are holding her hostage. She will be 1 month old in 2 days and will have to spend that milestone in this awful place. I HATE that!

Pictures coming soon.

Mia in the hospital Part 3

Today is day 9 of Mia's hospital stay. She has received her last dose of one of her antibiotics this afternoon. She still has 11 doses of her other antibiotic to go. She should receive the last dose on Sunday morning at 8am. Hopefully once she receives the last does we can take her home the same day. She is doing really well. On Tuesday morning they had to take her IV out of her hand because it was finally leaking. A normal IV only lasts about 3 days on average. We were lucky hers lasted 6 days. She still needed an IV so they inserted what is called a PIC line. It goes from her leg up into the main vein in her chest in a direct line. This sounds awful and it is I cried about it but I've cried about everything so far. The PIC line has been a blessing because now she gets her medicine and they can take blood from the line with out having to stick her anymore. All of her blood cultures are now coming back negative and her test results are all falling in the normal range. Thank goodness. It looks like Mia has beat this scary infection and she will never remember any of it. We have documented it in pictures so one day she can see just how scared we were for her. I'll post more of the pictures once I can get them uploaded to my computer. For now we are very blessed that our baby girl is doing so well.

I heard someone say this the other day and it rang very true with me.

God is not only good at times like this, God is good all the time!

Mia in the hospital Part 2

Let me start by thanking all of you who are checking in on her and praying for her. She was a very sick little girl for a while but is doing so much better. The course of 2 antibiotics they have her on seems to really be working. Her last blood culture came back negative for Group B Strep YAY! Those words were music to my ears this morning. Her CRP test which measures the level of inflammation she has was a 1.4. A high number for this test is bad and hers was up to 32 the morning after she was admitted. So we are truly blessed that she is doing so well. God has been with out little girl and heard all the prayers offered for her to get well. We hope to maybe be able to leave the hospital on Saturday or Sunday but it could still be as late as the following Wednesday or Thursday.

Mia in the Hospital Part 1

As most of you know by now Mia was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday night for an unknown infection. We have now learned the infection is Group B Strep or GBS. This infection can be fatal in infants if not caught early. We were so lucky that we caught it VERY early and she was put on antibiotics the same day the infection was caught. She is now being treated with 2 antibiotics. One every 6 hours and the other every 8 hours. The doctor says that she will need to be here for 10-14 days. More than likely it will be 14 days to make sure we get all the bacteria so she doesn't chance coming down with this again.

The staff here at the hospital has been wonderful. We love Nurse Rob and Nurse Lori and Nurse tech Kristen. They have all treated our baby like she is a part of their family. They have also been very good to us. Of course as first time parents we have been a mess and asked a million questions. We even love the doctor that is treating her. He takes his time with us and never makes us feel like we are bothering him or that we are asking stupid questions.

Here are a few pictures we have taken during our stay in the hospital. I'm sure there will be many more to come as she will be here for about 11 more days. All your calls and prayers are greatly appreciated.

Just Pictures

Here are some random pictures of Mia. Some of them were taken with a cell phones so they may be a little fuzzy. You will notice that 99.9% of what she does is sleep! Enjoy!