Another Hospital Visit

Well, Emerson hasn't been eating enough and had some other issues including some jaundice, which apparently I and all my brothers had as well. So, we made an appointment with our pediatrician first thing this morning and have been around doctors since 11AM this morning.

After meeting with our pediatrician, he sent us over to their other office to meet with the lactation consultant. She and the other staff members were extremely helpful, and told us we're doing everything right, but he's just not eating vigorously enough. So, combined with their other concerns, they thought it best to direct us to the ER at Children's Hospital where we've been now for 7 hours sitting in this little room.

We've tried to feed him on a few occasions but he keeps spitting it back up more and more each time and has a really upset look on his face about halfway through eating. So they're doing some blood work and in the meantime have him up to an IV...a four-day old up to an IV...some pretty hard veins to find!

As you can imagine, we're exhausted and haven't had any sleep all day. We're just hoping and praying they can figure out what's going on, and that he can eat and have bowel movements (Have you ever prayed to pee? It's a bit bizarre, but also a sobering reminder of how powerless you can be!).

Thankfully, we've had a few visitors. We've had some really hospitable nurses who have been very reassuring. Our friend Renee stopped by with dinner from Panera Bread. And there are two people who go to our church that work here at the Children's Hospital that have come in and spent some time with us. Others have called and offered to help but its difficult to think as to what they would do for us at the moment. We could, however, use some house elves from Hogwarts to take over all the chores but that's a bit difficult since we're jailed in at the ER....

So that's that. Hopefully we'll go home soon....