2 Years & 3 Days

  This is my now 2 year old..hard to believe it's been that long! It was a rough first couple of weeks for him. After the 3 am c-section, they monitored him with me for the first couple hours & when his blood glucose started dropping, gave him formula. That didn't work so they placed an IV & gave him Dextrose. That worked, but then his temperature started dropping so they placed him on antibiotics until cultures came back negative for infection. (That took a couple days) Cultures came back,they took him off the antibiotics and then his bilirubin levels started to rise (getting into the moderate range) so they treated that with phototherapy which effectively brought levels back to normal the next day. His temp came up a little bit, but after a small surgical procedure it dropped again & it was 3 days after that before it had come back up to where he'd be ok out of the hospital. He was discharged on the day before my due date.( a full 9 days in the hospital) I don't know if D had anything to do with it, I've never heard of any other normal or large D babies having this particular issue. Pediatrician said that he likely just needed those few extra days to incubate/regulate his temp. He was born at 38 wk 4 days, and weighed 7.3 lb.(aka the largest, most developed, kid in the NICU) it was still hard to have him in the hospital for so long & I cried every day for weeks. I really didn't have a reason to cry compared to some of the sicker the sick kids I saw in there but I di...
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