A little over a month ago Brady and I had the worst night of our lives! Not exaggerating. And of course it has everything to do with our sweet little Alayna.
Alayna had been acting really fussy for several hours and so I decided I was going to put her to bed a little early that night. Before I put her down for bed I felt her head and I thought it felt a little warm but I wasn't sure so I had Brady feel her head and he thought she felt just fine. So I put her to bed. She didn't even cry much like she usually does before falling asleep so I just thought that she must have been exhausted. For the next few hours she kept waking up and would cry really soft. I thought she was just fine because she will often wake up crying and then just go back to sleep. Well finally at like 12:30 a.m. I woke up wide awake to a really soft sounding whimper. I had a feeling that something was wrong and I quickly jumped out of bed to check on our sweet little girl. It was my worst nightmare. I screamed for Brady and just stared at what I thought was our dying baby girl. Alayna was just lying there face down in her vomit. She wasn't really crying or breathing very much. The only noise she could make was just a very quiet whimper. As I stood there just staring at her in shock Brady told me to pick her up. When I picked her up she was completely limp. I laid her back down on the floor and just looked at her as I cried hysterically. Her eyes were rolled back and I thought she was looking into heaven or something and preparing to meet her Heavenly Father. I finally snapped out of it and realized that now Brady was the one staring in shock. I yelled at him to call 911 and he immediately did that while I prayed. The lady on the phone with Brady told him to try putting Alayna on her back since I had kept her on her stomach. She was already barely breathing so when we put her on her back she stopped breathing completely! I only left her on her back a few seconds before I put her back on her stomach and she started breathing slowly again.
It only took a few minutes before the ambulance showed up. I was so happy to see them! I rode in the ambulance with Alayna while Brady drove to the hospital in our car. The whole way there I never stopped praying or crying. I just didn't know what to do with myself! While we were on our way to the hospital Alayna was still completely out of it and her eyes were still just looking up at the ceiling when she started saying "Mama Mama". I grabbed her little hand and kept trying to get her to look at me but she never was able to focus on me. Finally after the 20 - 30 min. drive to the hospital they got some (more like a lot) of medicine down her and she started to focus more and actually looked at me! After that she continually got better and went to sleep on my chest. Brady's parents showed up shortly after we got there and Brady and his dad gave her a blessing. After that she just kept getting better and better. Before we were able to take her back home, they were able to tell us what was wrong with her. The doctor said that she was probably having a seizure when we found her and that her seizure was caused because of her temperature getting too high. They were also able to tell us that she had a fever because she had a urinary tract infection. Her 2nd one in less than 3 months!
After we got her home, I gave her a bath (she still had vomit in her hair) and put her back to bed for a couple hours. For the next few days I had to constantly have medicine in her to keep her temperature down as well as antibiotics twice a day for ten days. Also since this is her 2nd urinary tract infection we have already had to take her in for a few tests. And she is still not done with all the tests she has to now go through. So far all the tests she has had have come out normal. Since then we have quit buying her the cheapest diapers in Wal-Mart and are now buying her the most expensive ones, even if they are more than double the price! We also no longer let her play in the bathtub. We get her in and clean, and then right back out. Also, I have not yet been able to relax since. Even though it has been over a month since her near death experience, I still take her temperature a few times a day, even if I know that she is just fine. And for the past few weeks she has been going through this "I don't need any sleep" phase. She wakes up every single night and doesn't go back to sleep for a few hours!
I really do love our little girl with all my heart but man! She has been kind of a hard baby! She has already been to the ER 5 times! Or is it 6?! It's always because she gets really high fevers and we have no warning! Once she gets a temperature it just shoots up so high so fast that we don't even know anything is wrong until we are on our way to the hospital. And now she is like an insomniac child! Don't one year olds need like 12 hours of sleep a day?! I am also really frustrated because I thought that breast fed babies dont get sick as much? Well Alayna is almost 16 months and still being breast fed all the time! Anyways, I just hope that when we have our next baby someday, that he/she will be a lot easier.
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