Hospital AGAIN

We got home from hospital last week Thursday after spending 7 days there again. My baby had Viral Pneumonia and a list of other things they found in his mucus. He also has a very big Iron deficiency. He has not even had his immunizations yet as he has not been well for 10 days in a row.
Sigh.......

We met (Day 1)

I was scared to touch my son. I did not want to cause him any more discomfort or pain. Because of the pipes in his nose he could not even cry. He could not breastfeed so I expressed milk for him and they gave it to him through a tube in his nose. I did not have milk for him that first day and struggled to get 2ml every three hours for him. He was supposed to get 5ml every 3 hours.
The hospital I was in was excellent. They kept the ICU empty for his benefit.
The people were so helpful and explained everything to me. It was a shock to see my baby like that and it helped to have friendly faces to assist me in this difficult time. Normal new born diapers were too big for him and I had to get prem diapers for him. I did buy him some prem clothes but he did not wear any clothes for quite a few days, only a hat and socks when the drips was not in his feet.
In mean time my other 2 sons and husband had to cope without me at home.

The surprise

In early 2008 I got the news that I was Pregnant for the third time. After my second child they did not give me much hope of ever having more children, so you could imagine my surprize. My second child was already born at 35 weeks. I knew that it was going to be difficult. My trouble started at 14 weeks. My blood pressure shot up and I started bleeding. We thought we were going to lose the baby. Thank goodness after a stay in hospital everything was under controll again. From there it was a constant struggle.