The Burns Family: Just when we thought things were starting to be wonderful...

Ethan winds up having to go back into the hospital. Last week we brought him home on Monday night and that night was perfect. He woke up every three hours to eat, slept and was a happy baby! Tuesday morning he woke up and he was fine but as the day went on he started being a little more lethargic and eating less and less. I had to wake him for his feedings and he was just not interested. He also started with a low grade fever. By the time Jon came home from work his fever had started going up in the low 100's and by 9 it was at 101.5. We knew something was not right, especially when cool washcloths and removing his clothes were not working anymore. So we took him to the ER...at the Los Alamitos Hospital. (worst mistake ever)

We never thought they would actually need to admit him so we didn't take him to Millers in Long Beach we just went to the closest hospital. It turns out that if a newborn comes to the ER with a fever over 100.4 (preemie or full term) and it wont go down they need to admit them. Well, Los Alamitos does not have a pediatrics ward so we had to get transferred. Since they already started all blood tests, we were not allowed to just leave. We had to wait for Los Al to transfer us and it turned our Millers didn't have ONE bed available. UGH! So after 11 hours...yes you read that right 11 HOURS in the ER we were finally transferred to Millers. Poor baby was so dehydrated because Los Al didn't start an IV until about the 6th hour in the ER! I can actually write a whole post on how much I hate that hospital.

Anyways, once we got to Millers they ran a few more tests, we had a few scares about what could be wrong with him but it turned out to be a viral infection AKA a common cold to adults. He is still in the hospital because sadly it took so much out of him. It gave him a few setbacks and today was the first day that he started to actually look and act like our little Ethan. So they want to run a couple more tests tomorrow, let him gain all his strength back and hopefully we will get him home again in a few days. We want to make sure that he is 120% before we take him home...we don't want to go back.

So this was actually the short story of our week. It was an emotionally draining week and Ethan deserves to have a normal life now! He has been through hell and back. But I have to say the 24 hours that I had both my boys under the same roof were the best 24 hours of my life! Can't wait for many, many more!

I will update when he comes home.

Here are a few pictures of Ethan's time at home...