Celebrating Easter yesterday brought up so many memories from 1 year ago.
My daughter Kate was born a few days before Easter 2014. It was a powerful VBAC birth and I was so grateful to hold her in my arms after dreaming about her for what seemed like forever.
But something happened in the hospital that was pretty much the worst fear of any parent of a newborn: she spiked a fever less than 24 hours after her birth, which set off a series of alarm bells and standard protocol from the hospital staff including drawing blood and running tests to find the root of the fever. As I learned, a fever in a newborn can be a VERY dangerous situation that needs to be treated immediately for the safety of the child.
When the tests came back with a possible bacteria in her blood, the hospital staff then had to give my baby girl antibiotics through a tiny IV that I just cried watching them put in. I felt so helpless!
We were finally discharged on Easter only to be readmitted a day later due to the tests coming back questionable again.
I was a hormonal wreck as I just KNEW my girl was healthy and that the tests were somehow off. I felt this in my bones. She was so alert, a great nurser and vocalizer!
My husband and I worked together as a team to ask questions of our medical team and make arrangements for our older children to be watched by our babysitter (we don’t have any family nearby) so we could travel back with our baby to the hospital one hour from our home and pray all the way that all was well and all would continue to be okay.
We made lemonade out of lemons and had a little baby-moon in the hospital room that night with our daughter. Steven got takeout and we feasted in our room as we read, meditated, slept, and believed in our girl.
I nursed her, held her and talked to her.
The next day, our caring doctor confirmed that his hunch was correct: the test that showed that my daughter had possible bacteria in her blood came back CONTAMINATED when further investigated by the lab.
Yup, the test was botched and Kate was completely healthy.
We were elated.
And we were set free to go home to our sons with our baby daughter. Our family of 5 was finally back together.
What a rollercoaster of emotions! Just going back in time writing this makes my heart start beating faster.
I’ve kept this experience mostly to myself for the past year as I had to process that tough time privately.
But I’m sharing it with you now – almost 1 year later as an example of how I tap into my INNER COACH, that wise place inside of me that knows the way and knows I’m held and protected.
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