Charlotte Back in the Hospital

Charlotte was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday. She had been choking during feedings all weekend and it had been getting worse. Her lips would turn blue during these coughing and choking episodes. She was throwing up, mainly mucus. And I would suction her nose before feedings and get these huge long boogers. Tuesday night her coughing and choking episodes got worse and her breathing was very rapid. We took her to the doctor's office at 8 am. They hooked her up to a pulse/oxy machine. And her oxygen level was at its highest 87. Doctors like us to be above 93. Anything below 90 is not good. So, they gave her a breathing treatment in the office and sent us to the hospital. Ben's job was to watch her to see if she was breathing or it her lips turned blue. He did a great job. Tom met us at the hospital and Charlotte and I went up to the third floor where they were waiting for us. They gave her another breathing treatment, gave her an IV for fluids because she was badly dehydrated, and put her on O2. She has RSV. Everyone in our family probably has it because everyone has been sick since Charlotte had arrive home from the hospital after she was born. But in Charlotte the virus is more than she can handle. So, where there is no cure, they just help her get over with the symptoms with oxygen and fluids and breathing treatments. So, in order to leave the hospital, she needs to be weaned off the oxygen, eating regularly, and down to breathing treatments every 4 hours. Today is day 4 and she is nursing much better and they took her off of IV fluids. When we initially came in she could barely eat for 5 minutes and would vomit afterward. Then we had to bottle feed her breast milk because nursing was so stressful. She is on treatments every 3 hours and initially it was every 2 hours. Weaning her off oxygen has been the most difficult thing to do. We started at 70% and every time they lower that level she needs to be raised again. Here O2 level drops when she is sleeping. So, she has been as low as 30% but she keeps having to go to 40-50% when she is asleep. We will be here at least until Monday. Hopefully, we won't celebrate her turning three weeks in the hospital. More later. Below is video of Day 2 in the hospital. I will try to get some more video today.