Happy 1 Week Old Birthday Kalia!

Kalia is officially 1 week old today and we got a head start on the celebration with her first visit to the emergency room last night! At about 12:45am on Tuesday night we awoke to Kalia with spit up all over her face (Now I understand why the inclines are so important). When we went to wipe it off, we realized that she had inhaled some of the spit up in through her nose. Since Dan sleeps next to her bassinet, he was the first one to find her, and when he picked her up, she was as stiff as a board. When I looked at her , I thought she was crying because she needed to be fed-no laughing I am still getting use to this whole parenting thing. Then Dan got the bulb syringe and started sucking the stuff out of her nose and mouth, she was sweating, crying uncontrollably, and bright red. I took over and Dan called the hospital Nurse-line. We were doing the right thing...and any parent out there knows that crying means they are breathing!! However, the nurse said we still needed to go to the emergency room to get her lungs checked out to ensure she didn't suck anything into them. With Kalia still crying and bright red, Dan and I drove frantically to the hospital at 1:00am, running red lights, and speeding....along the way, we realized that when she was checked into the emergency room, it was 1:23am, the same time I was at the hospital a week earlier as well! By the time that the doctor saw Kalia, she had her x-rays done of her lungs, and they found that she was ok, just a little nasally, and we were ready to go home, we realized that it was about 4am, the same time just a week earlier that I finally got my epidural and was relaxing somewhat from the contractions.

Dan spent all night sleeping on the couch with Kalia to make sure she stayed upright so that she could breath alright. At 9:45am she went to see her pediatrician. He checked her lungs and ears and said she looked great. She does have to have some saline in an inebulizer (sp?) for a couple days to flush everything out of her nasal passage. With all things said and done, to reassure me, Kalia is moving out of her bassinet into one of those beds you put in between you in bed, a slight incline will be put in her bed, and hopefully we will have a break from some scary incidents for awhile.

By the way, after this incident, I realized how much I love her car seat. She sits upright, she loves it, and I don't have to worry about breathing her spit up through her nose. With that said, check out her 1 week old pictures.