Day 1

So the past few days have been an emotional roller coaster over here for the Kragts. We finally got to meet our beautiful baby boy Oakley, coming home from the hospital was great and Laker is the best big brother EVER it melts my heart how much he loves his little brother already.

Then Monday night happened, Valentines Day, while Corey was taking care of Laker and his bedtime routine I notice Oakley having a hard time catching his breath, not wanting to screw around with a newborn and breathing we packed up as fast as we could with 2 babies and headed over to Holland hospital's emergency room. Being very quickly admitted when you say newborn and breathing in the same sentence our precious little Oakley was checked out right away, everything seemed to look fine but the ER doc wanted to run some tests to be sure. Some blood work, RSV test and a chest x-ray and LOTS of waiting in a small room with a 17 month old that hasn't had a "normal" day in over a week. You can imagine over tired topped with way past bedtime equals TRAIN WRECK!! The chest x-ray showed what could be the very early stages of pneumonia but the Doctor didn't seem real concerned, white blood count showed normal and not even a little temp. to think something could be really wrong so they called our pediatricians office and they wanted some blood work done, and gave him a shot of antibiotic just in case the RSV test was a false negative, and asked us to follow up the next day. We went home feeling assured things would be just fine.

Tuesday morning called for our follow up appointment got in at 3:30 had a normal day and all seem well with Oakley. Around 1pm during a feeding he again seemed to have a hard time catching his breath, nothing is harder than watching your son unable to take a deep breath when needed, but he recover much quicker this time and I felt good to be going to the doctor to have him checked out again. We saw Dr. Miller which isn't Oakley's pediatrician but she was who was called from the ER so was up to speed on his condition. She looked over his chest x-ray and took a good look at him, again he seem to be fine some what congested but she didn't feel comfortable with the way his chest x-ray looked and his white blood count looked so she called the pediatric unit at Holland hospital and had him admitted for observation and to get to the bottom of what could be going on.

So I called Corey he left work I went home to grab a few things and get Laker taken care of, poor kid broke my heart to leave him again but knew it was best for little brother, and off to the hospital we went. Everyone was great we got settled in to our room right away, the nurse's were amazing and the Dr was even in right away to take a look at him. This never happens don't you always wait for hours to see a Doctor at the hospital. Dr. Chamnes (sp) looked him over and thought he looked good to, ask us some questions and went to look over his reports from the ER from the night before. At this point I am beginning to think I am crazy for thinking something is wrong but yet I KNOW something is. Momma always knows best right? Not long and the Doctor was back and confirmed it is a viral infection, caught early so no real symptoms or problems yet but being a viral infection nothing they can do for him as far as treatment. Because he is only 7 days old we are now told we are here for the long haul of at least 48 hours, he will most likely get worse before he gets better. Yeah that is the last thing any parent wants to hear, but Corey and I knew this was the best place for him to be even if it doesn't turn into a full out virus. So all sorts of monitors are hooked up to watch him close and it looks like me and Oakley are staying at the hospital again, but this time no visitors, no nursery for him to go sleep at and no nurse taking care of me and giving me those nice drugs to sleep, its me and my baby in a room and nurses coming in once an hour to check to make sure he is doing good and every few hours checking his vitals. So now we just sit and pray all is well over night and see what tomorrow brings.

Oakley in the hospital crib

All hooked up