Oct 13, 2005 22:08
All of Alayna's tests and stuff came back normal, but when they had to grow a strep culture, they said there was something slightly abnormal with that. Not anything terribly bad, but enough to warrent antibiotics. They said it was probably due to my water leaking and the GBS. When they told me they were putting her on antibiotics until Monday morning because of the strep culture, my heart STOPPED. I mean, since I knew I was GBS positive I got so scared that something would happen, and of course, when they said that I thought the worst. Thankfully, they quickly reassured me that there is nothing serious at all with this. She's perfectly healthy and just something with it is making her vomit that bright yellow vomit. They promised me that she'll be perfect and healthy by Monday, and I believe them. :) I mean, she doesn't have a fever. Her temperature is nearly perfect, her coloring is great, and everything. I can even tell that now that they put her on the antibiotics, she's feeding better. They are actually getting full bottles into her now. This morning she got 45 cc's, but because she took that down great, they upped her to 60 cc's. She took 60 cc's for ME twice today. She never drank a full bottle for me. The nurses always had to do it while fighting with her to take the bottle, but because she took it from me, I think it's a lot better. I don't work as hard as the nurses do, so I think it's a lot better. :D I'm happy that she got that down today & held it down!! She spit up a BIT, but it was formula and not the bright yellow, so I think we're making some progress. The nurse said that she thinks that when they take her off of the antibiotics on Monday, she can probably go home. I'm saying Tuesday at the latest. I mean, she'll be two weeks old on Wednesday, so I don't think they'll keep a perfectly healthy baby past two weeks in the NICU. :)