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My "bat in the bedroom" thread is just the ending of a very eventful week here at our house.

 

On Tuesday, my eldest and his wife, had their first baby.  I'm a grandma!!! So exciting!!  But the baby landed in the NICU with a brain injury do to a lack of oxygen during a long labor.  She also has a skull fracture.  My poor dil pushed for over 4 hours and ended up with a forceps delivery.  Baby was treated by being on a cooling blanket in NICU for 72 hours.  It was a long week . . .waiting with them for this treatment.  DIL wasn't doing very well either:  fainting and woozy whenever up so that was a stress, too. On top of that, my son is a senior in college and was supposed to start classes on Wednesday.  

 

The good news is that the baby was warmed up over last night and is doing great!  Son and DIL were able to hold her for the first time today for hours!  Baby had no seizures which is what they were watching for so all seems well.  She will have a MRI early next week to confirm.  DIL is slowly recovering too and hospital has given them a hospitality room for at least through this weekend so they are able to stay at the hospital with baby.  We are so thankful for the positive news today and appreciate any prayers that the baby will continue to improve with no set-backs.

 

While this is all going on, I get a call from same son's landlord.  They live in an apartment building with about 12 apartments.  Bed bugs have been found in one of the apartments so all apartments need sprayed and there is prep work that needs to be done and someone needs to be there to let the exterminators in.  So, I head down there and in two hours, empty all their dressers, pull everything away from the walls, strip beds, tear up their beautiful nursery that my dil had worked so hard to arrange and emptied all their closets.  

 

Treatment is done (no evidence of bedbugs was found- thank goodness) and today we go back and put everything back the way it was which sounds easy until you're trying to remember what was in each drawer and I was in too much of a hurry to take pictures.  They will probably spend their first few days back at home trying to find things :(   I'm glad we were able to get it done while they were still in the hospital but it was one more thing in an already stressful week.

 

On top of that, see my post about the bat in our bedroom last night!

 

Whew!  Next week has to be a better week (unless I have to go get treated for rabies)!  One of the things I'm struggling with is the balance between supporting son and dil and keeping the home fires going for the youngers in my own family.  Since the baby is in NICU only the kids over 15 are allowed to go in and they really don't like them even to be in the waiting area so my younger kids have been staying at home a lot with older siblings and I can tell it's getting old (for the babysitters and the babysittees).

 

Thanks for letting me share :)

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Wow! That is a lot going on, although I'm sure the baby overshadows it all. I will pray that all is well on the MRI, and that your son, DIL and precious new grandbaby can transition into life as a family.

 

As far as leaving the littles, I can't offer any suggestions, but I know I'd probably want to be up at the hospital as much as I could (within reason of course). Maybe just let them know y'all can do something special when things settle down a bit.

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Thanks, everyone!  Baby is doing really well.  Dil got to nurse her for the first time yesterday afternoon and the baby latched on and went at it like a champ!  It was such a relief as the nurses were really concerned she had lost the sucking instinct during the cooling treatment.  As of yesterday afternoon, she was disconnected from all iv's and and her central line was removed.  All the sedation has been stopped also.  They were moved to the step-down NICU unit.  

 

The MRI doesn't seem to be scheduled until Friday per the nurse yesterday which seems like a long delay.  I'm hoping to hear more on that issue today after the doctors are through on their rounds.

 

Got to see her sweet eyes open for the first time yesterday afternoon . . . melted my heart and she's already got grandpa wrapped around her little finger!

 

Thanks for all the prayers.

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My "bat in the bedroom" thread is just the ending of a very eventful week here at our house.

 

On Tuesday, my eldest and his wife, had their first baby.  I'm a grandma!!! So exciting!!  But the baby landed in the NICU with a brain injury do to a lack of oxygen during a long labor.  She also has a skull fracture.  My poor dil pushed for over 4 hours and ended up with a forceps delivery.  Baby was treated by being on a cooling blanket in NICU for 72 hours.  It was a long week . . .waiting with them for this treatment.  DIL wasn't doing very well either:  fainting and woozy whenever up so that was a stress, too. On top of that, my son is a senior in college and was supposed to start classes on Wednesday.  

 

The good news is that the baby was warmed up over last night and is doing great!  Son and DIL were able to hold her for the first time today for hours!  Baby had no seizures which is what they were watching for so all seems well.  She will have a MRI early next week to confirm.  DIL is slowly recovering too and hospital has given them a hospitality room for at least through this weekend so they are able to stay at the hospital with baby.  We are so thankful for the positive news today and appreciate any prayers that the baby will continue to improve with no set-backs.

 

While this is all going on, I get a call from same son's landlord.  They live in an apartment building with about 12 apartments.  Bed bugs have been found in one of the apartments so all apartments need sprayed and there is prep work that needs to be done and someone needs to be there to let the exterminators in.  So, I head down there and in two hours, empty all their dressers, pull everything away from the walls, strip beds, tear up their beautiful nursery that my dil had worked so hard to arrange and emptied all their closets.  

 

Treatment is done (no evidence of bedbugs was found- thank goodness) and today we go back and put everything back the way it was which sounds easy until you're trying to remember what was in each drawer and I was in too much of a hurry to take pictures.  They will probably spend their first few days back at home trying to find things :(   I'm glad we were able to get it done while they were still in the hospital but it was one more thing in an already stressful week.

 

On top of that, see my post about the bat in our bedroom last night!

 

Whew!  Next week has to be a better week (unless I have to go get treated for rabies)!  One of the things I'm struggling with is the balance between supporting son and dil and keeping the home fires going for the youngers in my own family.  Since the baby is in NICU only the kids over 15 are allowed to go in and they really don't like them even to be in the waiting area so my younger kids have been staying at home a lot with older siblings and I can tell it's getting old (for the babysitters and the babysittees).

 

Thanks for letting me share :)

 

 

(((((((Hugs))))))))))

 

So much stress for you!  I am so glad the baby is doing so much better and cannot fathom handling all that in a week. 

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Baby will be discharged today after an MRI!  The occupational therapist didn't believe that the little girl of this week matches the description in her file of her birth and the complications afterwards.  We are so thankful!!!  

 

So all three things have turned out just wonderfully!  Grandaughter is apparently just fine with no ill effects from her complicated beginning, no bedbugs in the apartment and no rabies in the bat!

 

 

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