What a crib looks like in the pediatric wing. I would NEVER leave one of my babes alone in that thing. Instead, I tucked Bleu into the room's twin-size bed and cuddled right up next to her. She slept like a baby all night long.
I'm Bleu's comfy thing, so she was happy to know I wasn't going anywhere. She was such a champ! I am still in awe of her champness through this whole ordeal.
Bleu naturally moves a lot in her sleep. A LOT. So I stayed awake to untangle her IV cords every 10 minutes or so. At exactly 4 a.m., I snuck out of bed, raced to the bathroom and started my own vomit fest. I would vomit every 3 minutes {give or take} for the next 11 hours. Being violently ill while in the hospital alone taking care of your sick + dehydrated baby... not fun. Let me just say.
Bleu's wake-up call came at 5 a.m. when a very bad nurse tried to take blood and stuck her SIX times in her right arm. Six unsuccessful times, jolting the needle around in between, even switching places with another nurse while the needle moved. Bleu girl was tortured because someone else couldn't do her job. I was LIVID!
That nurse ran out of the room and we never saw her again, but when our pediatrician came in the morning to do rounds, he was LIVID, TOO. I overheard him yelling to another nurse that Bleu "is an easy stick, and she shouldn't have any trouble!" He took one look at Bleu's arm and decided nobody would stick her again. For anything. He felt awful, and Bleu keeps pointing to her arm now and saying "Boo boo... boo boo."
Once the daytime nurses found out I was suddenly sick as a dog they wouldn't come within a mile of our room. Seriously, Bleu was the most ignored patient there. I was very disappointed. Even after the doctor signed discharge papers I couldn't get anyone to come in and take her IV out. Our room was right outside the nurse's station, but the girls were busy gossiping about earlier patients, scheduling woes, or how Shannon {Bleu's head nurse} was going to Europe with her boyfriend next week and didn't want to get sick. Finally I had to threaten ~ while squatting on the floor in the doorway ~ to rip the IV out myself if someone didn't tend to my daughter. The director of nursing will be getting a letter.
I won't get into the rest here, but the nighttime nurses were fabulous. Kristina was absolutely wonderful with Bleu. As any pediatric nurse should be. The daytime nurses were like rotten blueberries. They messed up on so many basic medical/care points during our short stay. Anyway, Bleu looked 1,000 times better by the time we left. I looked 1,000 worse. Thanks to our friend Jason the boys were able to pick us up around 2:30 p.m.
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then i was little and had my tonsils out the cribs had the cage over the top too!! poor little kids
.. love you forever
I hope bleu is ok and feeling better.
That pic brings back terrible memories for me. BB HAD to spend two nights in that crib I am sure in the same hospital when she was 2 months old and had RSV. She had to be in there b/c of the oxygen tent. I took turns with my sweetie sitting next to it all nightb/c the oxygen was so loud if she woke up and wanted to eat of just be held you could not hear her. WE used the twin bed to sleep with BP when we were not on BB watch. All 4 of us stayed in the same room for two days. I was so happy to be discharged and I hope to never experience that again. So I feel for you and what you have been through in the last coupe days. I hope you are feeling better!
Oh.. I remember when you guys went through that. How scary!!! There was a 10 month old and a 2 month old at the hospital when we were there... they both had respiratory distress, bronchitis, etc. I felt very lucky we weren't in there with a little newborn.
I bet it was nice to have the whole family there though. They don't let kids under 18 on any of the hospital floors anymore during flu season. I wonder if BP + BB will be able to visit you in the maternity ward. Have they said yet?
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