Oy Vey! What a weekend, what a relief.

First thing first- Happy six month birthday Kennedy!!!!!


So last week Kennedy had alot of changes. We attempted to drop 3 meds, she got put back on oxygen and we had appointments 4 out of 5 days. Friday started off with quite a bit of excitement. Kennedy threw up 3 times in as many hours and resulted in two baths for her and several wardrobe changes for both of us. At our GI appointment on Monday the doctor said to start Kennedy back on the erythromycin if she started to spit up a lot. I thought we were in the clear since she had done fine all week, but after the morning vomit-fest I went ahead and started her back up again. She was also very snotty and had started to cough a bit. It was a little concerning to me since we had been out and about so much that week so I decided to keep a close eye on her. During the day her temp was reading pretty low so that night I ended up calling the pediatrician when it hit 95.7. She said to bundle her up and recheck in a few hours and if it was still low to go to the ER. At 2am she was still reading low so we packed her up and took her to an all night urgent care in the hopes that we wouldn't have to pay the $50 for the ER visit. I ran in and explained the situation and they pretty much told me that they didn't want anything to do with her given her medical situation (extremely low birth weight, on O2 plus tons of meds) They said take her to the ER. She was smiling, happy and active and other than the snotty nose and the cough seemed ok so Shawn and I decided to take her temp one more time before dragging her into an ER filled with who knows what kind of germs. Up to this point I have always taken her temp under her arm. It's how they did it in the NICU and its always worked fine so I figure why fix what isn't broke. This time I broke down and did a rectal temp and what da ya know?! Perfect temp. So from now on I will be taking her temp the good old fashioned way. Her cough and snotty nose continued through out the weekend as did the vomiting on a much smaller scale, so Shawn and I kept a pretty close eye on her. We knew that all of the symptoms could be caused by the recent med changes and O2 but they could also be signs she was getting sick so we were a little worried. Today was a scheduled doctors appointment so we were very relived to find out that Yes the snotty nose is probably from the oxygen and that we should start using the humidifier 24 hours a day, and the cough is something normal that baby's start to do around 3 months (Kennedy's adjusted age) and we were lucky enough that she did it at the doctors office and the doctor said it was a normal cough. While we were at the doctors they checked her sats and they were at 92 so we had to go up on her oxygen flow from 1/16 lpm to 1/8 lpm. Kennedy also got four shots today so tonight and tomorrow should be fun.