Oh my! What an update I have. After coming home on Thursday with baby Telan we spent one night at home and she was having a hard time staying awake to eat. On Friday afternoon I called the doctor because I felt that something just wasn't right and they told me to come up there asap. They checked her out and her temperature was 93.7 which I didn't even know was possible. The doctor sent us over to the hospital where we were admitted to the pediatrics unit. She was put into an incubator and had a feeding tube put in as well as an IV. They did a spinal tap to rule out infection and started antibiotics just in case. On Saturday night her heart rate kept dropping into the 50's and 60's. We were told this was normal but we asked to run some tests anyway. They did an EKG and an echo cardiogram, both of which came back normal. Her spinal tap came back normal as well, so the whole problem was that she was just too small and too premature to maintain her body temperature. We came home yesterday and Telan's temperature is doing well and she is eating much more than she was. Hopefully all of our "excitement" is over and we can try to get back to normal with our little princess.
Thanks to everyone who has been praying for us and those who have left kind messages on my myspace and facebook. I may not be able to answer them all right now, but I will be reading them all! I appreciate you all so much!!
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aww how well do i remember the tempature issues. we had to do a LOT of kangaroo care, me sleeping topless and him in a diaper on my chest at night and if not for that he would have died from freezing, literally or been in the hospital as well. they do have a hard time keeping their temp up bc they're just skin and bones. but i'm glad everything is better now =)
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