And it Rocks!
The Chocolate Affair was really fun. I recommend it. There is good music, good chocolate, art and other booths, novelists, and at 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm tonight they will be playing the movie "You Got Mail" outside in the park. (If Melanie didn't have an early bedtime, I would have wanted to stay of the movie. How fun is that!) 
Tummy Time!
Noelle... one month old! :o)
My silly Red Head
Melanie was in the bath tub playing with her frogs and started doing this... And finally... at 3 weeks old, Noelle is already rolling onto her back from her belly. She is amazing me constantly.
Have I mentioned I love my life?
After:
Noelle was discharged yesterday. She is home, still recovering.
So, the back story:
Friday, January 8th, we took Noelle to her 2 week check up. She was a healthy baby. That night she started coughing and had a runny nose.
Sunday night she started gasping when she coughed.
First thing Monday morning, we headed to the doctor's office. I knew there was a chance that it was just a cold, but I didn't want to chance it if it were something worse. The doctor listened to Noelle's lungs and told me he thought she sounded good. Just to be safe, he ordered an x-ray. We got the x-ray right away, but I didn't hear back from him that day.
Tuesday, I called to get feedback from the x-ray and found out that it came back good.
Wednesday, another nurse called me to tell me the x-ray came back good.
Thursday, the doctor's nurse called to ask me to come back into the office just to have her checked again. The doctor just wanted to keep an eye on her because of her age. She didn't have any change in symptoms, so I have assumed that it would be an in and out appointment. The doctor had just finished telling me that because I breast feed Noelle, I have saved her from a hospital stay when he listened to her lungs. It turns out she had junk in her lungs. He gave Noelle a priesthood blessing and sent us to Mercy Gilbert Hospital. The doctor at Mercy Gilbert swabbed to test for RSV. He also told me that as long as I was able to successfully breast feed Noelle, he would not require her to get an IV. They hooked a probe to Noelle's foot and determined that she would need the aid of Oxygen.
Friday, the RSV test came back positive.
Between the time she was checked in until the Sunday morning at 10am, she was on and off oxygen, had her lungs suctioned out multiple times, had her nose suctioned out even more times, and had CPU done every 4 hours.
At 10 am on Sunday, they suctioned her lungs out one more time and then attempted to take her off the oxygen (testing the waters). That was the last time she was on the aid of oxygen. She still had the CPU done every 4 hours until we were discharged.
Monday, we got to come home!
I was at the hospital with Noelle the entire time. I did not get to see Melanie the entire time, so it was so nice to some home and see her again. When I got home, she was at Grandma and Grandpa Smithson's house. Brandon brought her home a few hours later so Noelle and I got to nap first. When she got home, I scooped her up into my arms. She smiled and giggled... but her first words were "Baby Sister???". I took her into the back room and showed Melanie her sleeping baby sister. It was only after she checked on her sister that she was ready to play.
Noelle is still sick, but she no longer needs to be in the hospital. She will be in and out of the doctor's office until she is completely better. I'm so grateful that her doctor asked me to bring Noelle back in. I didn't know the illness had escalated and most likely wouldn't have got her into the hospital until she was really sick. Babies can die from RSV. We are so blessed to have her.
I'm still lacking sleep, so if I missed something and you have a question, please ask.
