Sorry I have been missing in action - I bet some of you thought I must have fallen off the face of the earth - no just been very very busy. I have just read all your posts and want to give hugs to those that need them and am amazed at how quickly these bubbas are growing.
We have had a really rough start with DS - you may remember he was quite jaundice and required a readmission for phototherapy. At the same time of the admission he was finally diagnosed as having a tongue tie but the hospital staff wouldn't snip it as the medical staff said it wasn't affecting feeding despite him not pooing properly (basically not at all). I organised to see a lactation consultant who specialises in tongue tie and her husband is a GP who does the snip then and there. He fed like a trooper after that and it was pain free!! Well I am pleased to say that the jaundice resolved itself around 5-6 weeks so that was great. However, shortly after that hospital admission he developed a really bad nappy rash (so around 2 weeks old) which I could not resolve no matter what cream I used - I tried them all barrier creams, zinc creams, steroid creams, antifungal creams, antifungal creams with a steroid - we tried nappy free time, cleaning with only water - you named it we tried it. I ended up taking him to the GP at 5 weeks as it had been there for 3 weeks despite my absolute best efforts and she took swabs and it turns out it was a staph infection. We, of course, got the results via phone from my GP whilst I was in QLD for my sisters wedding so I had to take him to the hospital to be seen by the paediatrician who prescribed antibioitic. Getting him to take 1.8ml of that was not fun. We celebrated my sisters wedding and drove back to NSW but the rash was still there but it hadn't spread any further (thanks to the antiobiotic) and it wasn't as angry as I found a cream in QLD (zinc & castor oil cream) that really helped it but it wasn't going completely. I ended up taking him back to my GP just before 8 weeks old and she referred us to a paediatric dermatologist and organised for us to see him the next day. He said it was an errosive nappy rash and advised us to use a powder which I call the miracle powder as it cleared the last of the sores up within 48 hours. It was great! the next day he slept more than he ever had in his life (as each time he would wee or poo he would wake when it touched the sores) and then that afternoon he had no colour and hadn't been feeding very well as he was so congested but had been slightly congested since birth - new things were that he was quite lethargic and had a fever so we took him straight to emergency. With all his history including recently stopping antibiotics they thought he may have had an infection that had been 'treated' or masked by that recent antibiotic and was now sepsis. We were rushed down to the resus area where he had a lot of tests including a urine sample being taken (it was heartbreaking to watch the cannula go down the eye of his penis) he also had a lumbar puncture to test his spinal fluid as he was presenting as septic. We were admitted and he was started on IV antibiotics and fluids to rehydrate him. The preliminary tests showed he had an infection but we had to wait for all the tests and cultures to show exactly were the infection was. The next day DS had developed a rattle in his chest and was so mucosy (he was coming out his nose - out his bottom when he had swallowed it) and they were able to diagnose him as having bronchiolitis - so he was started on oxygen and the antibiotics could be stopped. That was last Friday and we got to go home on Wednesday 2 Oct... but were readmitted on Thursday afternoon as he wasn't maintaining his breathing at home.
As I said it has been a very full on 9 weeks and I cant wait to be on the other side of this all.
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