Four weeks ago when Emma came to NICU 2, my mom and I walked into her room and saw poop coming out the top of her diaper into the bottom of her incision. Clearly, this was cause for concern, and we had a really bad feeling about it. Her incision opened up the following Friday, and it started showing signs of infection soon after. Today I asked an infectious disease doctor specifically what kind of bacteria was cultured. We had previously been told that it was an aggressive bacteria. It turns out that (1) it's very rare, (2) it's found in infants' gastrointestinal tracts, and (3) when it grows, it specifically targets wounds, in addition to a couple other places on the body. Hmmm...a bacteria found in poop that attacks wounds...sounds like the exact thing we were worried about 4 weeks ago when no one had changed our daughter's diaper in hours and hours and hours!!! So that bad feeling we got back then really was cause for concern. It's especially concerning that the nurse that day told us to just change her diaper every few hours, not every time it's dirty, because she'll just poop again. That's not even good sense. Needless to say, she's on our list of don't-even-think-about-assigning-this-nurse-to-us-again nurses.
Emma had another marathon wake-time day - 6 and a half hours! That officially makes 3 straight days of 6+ consecutive hours of awake time. But she did sleep all night last night...let's hope she keeps that up when we go home.
One of the NICU doctors is FINALLY making some changes to Emma's formula. We hope to see some improvement in some things that I won't go into detail about, but let's just say it has to do with poop.
Dr. Troup came by, but I'm not really sure why. There's not much to do right now except wait, but I appreciate him coming by. He's still coming over to check on her head circumference and just check on us in general, I guess. The shunt surgery is still on for Tuesday!
We have a great nurse tonight, and she's back again tomorrow night and Thursday night. Another one of our primary night nurses is on Thursday night, too, so I now officially have some peace of mind about these 3 consecutive nights. Ahhh, that's nice. That's about it for today - nothing really exciting going on.
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I am sorry to hear that your fears from 4 weeks ago were true, ugh! But am very glad to hear that today was uneventful, I continue to pray for more of these days you all. Sending peace and love, Virginia
ReplyDelete6 hours is definitely a long time for her to be awake! It is amazing she is sleeping through the night, though. Also definitely not normal for her age! I know it will be nice for you to all be home so you can get on your own schedule.
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