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[charlottezweb]

Alistair is definitely doing better. He's almost like a normal baby again--pink and sleeping and crying and pooping without unnatural distress. It turns out that he has an E Coli infection that started as a UTI and spread to his blood--luckily they caught it before it colonized his spinal fluid. He's on one kind of antibiotic now and half of his IV fluids--if he stays hydrated, he'll come off the fluids entirely tonight and be free range except when it's time for meds. He went off the monitors aleady, yay--no more beeping.

We may not be going home though untl the meds are finished--turns out that to put in the IV port for home use, he'd have to not eat for 12 hours and then go under sedation. My 5 week old baby who eats every 1-2 hours when he's sick, is not going to not breastfeed for 12 hours. And I'm not sure comfortable with the idea of sedation either. Especially since we wouldn't be going home before Tues at this point and that would be 5 days of meds right there out of 7-10

Thank you all for the well wishes--we all appreciate them and I will update with any changes!

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[snippy]

How wonderful that he's getting better!

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad he's doing better. I'm thinking healing thoughts.

[prairierabbit.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad he's doing much better. Trust your instincts about his care! You've got good reasons and he's already been through a lot. **Hugs!** Still sending healing thoughts.

[hkbear.livejournal.com]

Good thoughts. Glad he's coming around.

[lorres.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that he seems to be coming back to health again. I'm thinking of all of you and hoping Alistair can get back home a.s.a.p.

[velochicdunord.livejournal.com]

Good news indeed. That was (and still is) scary.