Sunday, October 14th, Kalen's 30th birthday started off with us going to church that morning for the first time since Beckett was born. He was 16 days old... Church was great and McKinley was really excited because Aunt Brandy and Cousin Kohen were coming to spend a few days with us while Aunt Brandy had a conference in Edmond. I planned on cooking this big dinner for Kalen - Pulled beef tacos, tortillas from scratch, Spanish rice, and all the fixings (I don't ever cook Mexican food). I started dinner early and was in the middle of craziness when Aunt Brandy and Kohen got to the house. I had noticed that Beckett was sleeping a lot since church and hadn't nursed too well either. I was finishing dinner when Beckett started crying to eat. So Brandy and Kalen finished making dinner while I fed Beckett. I was also starting to notice that Beckett didn't like to be held in the positions he normally did and he would scream in those positions. He wanted to be lying flat which is weird for him. After dinner we put the kids to sleep and I started feeling like something is wrong with Beckett and maybe we should take him to our pediatric after hours clinic. It felt like he was getting sicker by the minute. I took his temperature since he had started feeling warm and it was 100.4 under his arm. Any temperature in a newborn is alarming so I called the nurse line at our peds office. She confirmed my fear of any temperature in a newborn is alarming and told us to take him to the emergency room at Children's Hospital in OKC. We decided to change his diaper right before we left and as we barely moved him he would scream at any movement. It broke my heart to put him if the carseat as he screamed in pain (it was the worst cry ever - it wasn't a loud scream - it was a scream of pain that had no energy almost hoarse). We got to the ER filled out a form and waited about 5 minutes until a nurse came out and asked why we had brought him to the ER. 1 minute later they brought us back. They placed him on a scale and took his temperature 102.4....as we were standing there we went from having 2 nursed with us to 6 and a doctor in a matter of seconds...they were asking all sorts of questions about my pregnancy, his health, symptoms. Then the doctor asked a dreaded question, something I had forgotten all about, was I strep B positive at delivery....I had already researched the risks of being strep B positive at delivery and knew if a baby got sick from it that it wasn't good and could lead to death. They took us to a cubicle and the doctor sat down in front of us (never a good sign) as I was holding Beckett she explained that they're fear was that it was meningitis from the strep B - he had most of the symptoms - and they were going to need to put an IV in, a catheter, chest X-ray, and a spinal tap. I somehow remained pretty calm, tears running down my face as we went over questions and signed release forms. I laid Beckett on the table and left Kalen with him, I couldn't watch all of those procedures. I walked out of the curtained area and lost it...I could barely speak as I called my mom and Kalen's dad to try to explain what was going on. All I could do is cry out to God to spare my baby and at the same time release him to God because he's HIS! The procedures all went extremely smoothly, better than they anticipated and they started him on 3 different medications and fluids. They checked us in and took us upstairs to his room. At this point he was more comfortable laying in a bed, he did not want to be moved, so Kalen and I dozed on and off all night waiting, watching, and praying. Monday came and the blood and urine tests came back first that it wasn't a blood disease or kidney related, they still would watch the cultures but as of then they were clear. Monday night we got the all clear from his spinal tap that it was not menengitis! Praise the Lord! He had to go on oxygen Monday night because he wasn't retaining his Oxygen levels, but they saw no reason for it his chest X-ray had come back clean and they ruled out a respiratory infection. Tuesday at noon he was taken off oxygen and his fever had broke and they said if he remained like that for the next 8 hours we could go home. We still don't know what was wrong, it could have just been a virus who knows, but little man is healthy now, thank you Lord! Thanks for all that prayed. It felt like the longest moments ever, it is hard to believe it only was 3 days! I know several people who were up all night praying for Beckett and I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. The Lord has his hand on Beckett and I can't wait to see what God has in store for his life!
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| Swollen baby on tons of fluids - he wouldn't eat for 24 hours |
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| We did lots of skin to skin when he stopped crying from being moved... |
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