You guys aren't going to believe this...
Oct. 15th, 2005 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarflameIt's GBS. Jake, I mean, that's what's wrong with him. Can you even imagine? All that talk about 1 in 10,000, I'm not even going to get the antibiotics, yada yada yada. I was actually just bitching last week, like "Can you believe the stupid hospital gave me stupid antibiotics TWICE, before the surgery, because it's routine to do it in a laboring woman AND in a woman having a c/s - talk about overkill!"
Yeah, I'm not saying that anymore. I'd kick myself in the teeth but I can barely walk from carrying my stitched up self back and forth from the NICU all morning and afternoon today.
Apparently his placenta was horribly inflamed with it, at the time of delivery, because colonization had started in my uterus since my water had broken. It's probably what was stressing him out and causing his decelerations at the end, and also may have played into his passing meconium. It's common for a baby born to a mother with GBS to be fine after delivery, because of the antibiotics during labor. The rare thing is the ones who start to show signs of infection in their bloodstream a few days later. And I'm telling you...if we had come home with him and it hadn't been found for a week or more as he worsened, until it was obvious, he would have spent months in the hospital or perhaps even had dire consequences. As it is he has to stay there for a 10 day course of IV antibiotics, and then he can come home.
:::sigh:::
The NICU nurses seem really friendly and are very encouraging of storing/feeding my milk and me coming in and nursing him. He is mostly sleeping all the time, sprawled out in a warmer. When I got to the hospital this morning I was a complete basketcase finding out he'd been taken off all food and crying from hunger (they had bm to give him) because his breathing had increased to the point that the docs were afraid he would aspirate into his lungs if he sucked (it slowed within about 8 hours of starting antibiotics). And also just having to go find him on another floor in a different level of care, and seeing him hooked up to things...I really never wanted to go through this again. It was a nightmare. And the fear of what could be wrong with him, I didn't even want to deal with it. But once I found out what IS wrong...well, I am just relieved to have a definitive answer, and time frame, and form a plan. With Isaac, every single day it was "Maybe he can go home tomorrow", for two weeks, and that was just gut wrenching. I've certainly done plenty of crying here and will continue, I'm sure...but I know what to expect, at least, and there isn't any of that repetetive heartbreak in store (barring a whole other complication popping up unforseen, God forbid...)
I'm going to start replying to people now, and I have some other posting to do later - AWESOME pictures :D and some GOOD things that I'd like to share. Wanted to tell people this first, though, because I know some of you are wondering.
Yeah, I'm not saying that anymore. I'd kick myself in the teeth but I can barely walk from carrying my stitched up self back and forth from the NICU all morning and afternoon today.
Apparently his placenta was horribly inflamed with it, at the time of delivery, because colonization had started in my uterus since my water had broken. It's probably what was stressing him out and causing his decelerations at the end, and also may have played into his passing meconium. It's common for a baby born to a mother with GBS to be fine after delivery, because of the antibiotics during labor. The rare thing is the ones who start to show signs of infection in their bloodstream a few days later. And I'm telling you...if we had come home with him and it hadn't been found for a week or more as he worsened, until it was obvious, he would have spent months in the hospital or perhaps even had dire consequences. As it is he has to stay there for a 10 day course of IV antibiotics, and then he can come home.
:::sigh:::
The NICU nurses seem really friendly and are very encouraging of storing/feeding my milk and me coming in and nursing him. He is mostly sleeping all the time, sprawled out in a warmer. When I got to the hospital this morning I was a complete basketcase finding out he'd been taken off all food and crying from hunger (they had bm to give him) because his breathing had increased to the point that the docs were afraid he would aspirate into his lungs if he sucked (it slowed within about 8 hours of starting antibiotics). And also just having to go find him on another floor in a different level of care, and seeing him hooked up to things...I really never wanted to go through this again. It was a nightmare. And the fear of what could be wrong with him, I didn't even want to deal with it. But once I found out what IS wrong...well, I am just relieved to have a definitive answer, and time frame, and form a plan. With Isaac, every single day it was "Maybe he can go home tomorrow", for two weeks, and that was just gut wrenching. I've certainly done plenty of crying here and will continue, I'm sure...but I know what to expect, at least, and there isn't any of that repetetive heartbreak in store (barring a whole other complication popping up unforseen, God forbid...)
I'm going to start replying to people now, and I have some other posting to do later - AWESOME pictures :D and some GOOD things that I'd like to share. Wanted to tell people this first, though, because I know some of you are wondering.
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Date: 2005-10-16 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-10-16 03:41 am (UTC)Where I just looked it up, it said it's more common in mothers with c-sections (particularly prior ones), and only 8'000 babies in the USA get it each year, which puts it at 0.002705% chance of contracting it. So, seriously whoa.
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Date: 2005-10-16 06:05 am (UTC)And oh, Sara :( I'm so sorry. I wish I could sign on AIM right now... I just finished pumping though, and have to be back up there by 9 when he's going to be out of milk otherwise. I could talk to you for hours :/
I'll pray for you, and email you more soon. I don't even know what to say. Feel MORE than free to dump it out in an email. It might take me a few hours to get to read it, but I will within a day of getting it, and don't mind at all.
I hope you and the kids are ok.
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