To the NICU

Sunday night and Monday morning, Hudson had a couple of "episodes" as we call them where he basically starts choking, and then holds his breath, causing him to turn a blue color (or dusky as the neonatologist called it) due to the lack of oxygen. Both of these episodes occurred while he was in the nursery. Monday morning the neonatalogist checked him out and seemed to think he was fine. They did a few tests on him to rule out any kind of infection, and everything came back negative. He was fine all day on Monday so we assumed he had worked out whatever problem he had. This morning we were planning on going home. We had been discharged from the hospital with the ok from the pediatrician as well as from my doctor, and had everything packed up. I was going to nurse Hudson before we left. While I was nursing, he started spitting up and then began acting like he was choking. He turned the blue color as well. Of course, Joel and I freaked out. We were able to calm him down, but unfortunately, the neonatalogist decided that he needed to be admitted to the NICU. They believe that it is due to bad reflux and not an infection, but they wanted to run more tests on him and keep him for at least 48 hours before letting him go home. They changed the formula he was being supplemented with in hopes that it might help the reflux, if that is what is causing the episodes. It breaks our hearts, but we know that this is the best thing for him right now. We would much rather him be in the good care of Brookwood until he's better, but it is terrible going home without a baby. The hospital is letting us stay in our room until 11 pm tonight, but then we have to go home. We have to come back and feed him every 3 hours, although, they suggested we go home and get some sleep tonight after the 11 pm feeding and come back in the morning so that is what we are going to do. He has had a good day today with no more episodes after this morning, and the new formula seems to be sitting well with his stomach, so hopefully that is the solution. We are hopeful that he will be able to come home on Thursday. Here are some pictures of day 3 of Hudson's life.

The below picture is hilarious. He is trying to eat his IV needle. He's really ready to go home!!!

He loves his daddy! They are holding hands...so cute!!!


I forgot to add the below picture to the first post earlier. This is Hudson with his GREAT grandparents! What a cute picture!