Next morning we were back at the hospital at 7:30. They gave us that same room again and we were the two most contented parents just holding our little one and pinching ourselves that we really were this blessed!
Approximately mid morning I was holding Molly and I looked down and her color went from pink to dusky blue quite rapidly. It didn’t look as if she was choking or anything but I jumped up and had Steve run for a nurse. They came in and told us that sometimes babys have junk in their throats from the birth and its sticky and gets caught in there. They also suggested we not over wrap her as babies only need one more layer than what we feel is comfortable.
We went back to our euphoria and a little later Ms boyfriend wheeled M down to our room to see the baby for the first time. She was holding the baby when again the baby turned bluish. This was quite upsetting to M and she was worried that she had done something wrong. I was upset too, but fortunately the Lord blessed me both at that moment and the previous day when M went into surgery-at being the calm one and so I jumped up took the baby and Steve ran to get the nurse again. This time the nurse ran the baby back into the nursery where they administered a little blow by oxygen and the baby “pinked” right back up. The baby did this again an hour or so later and again in the middle of the night. After that 2nd episode they kept the baby on an oxygen and heart rate monitor.
After the 2nd episode with M, it became apparent that we would not be leaving the hospital on Tuesday or even Wednesday. Angels again, Laura, her husband John and Beverly arranged payment for additional hotel days as well as covering the initial 4 nights we had planned on. This relieved so much stress for us- staying more time and so forth was not what we wanted to do but knowing we had a place to sleep and that the hotel portion of this adventure was paid allowed us to focus on Molly and her needs.
The pediatrician on call ordered an EKG, Eccocardiogram and a number of blood tests. When those all appeared normal, he ordered a 12 hour apnea test to be administered from 8pm on Wednesday to 8 am Thursday. Meanwhile after the nurses heard that Ms other child had had a hard time with reflux and ended up on the most expensive formula, they decided to change Molly to that formula and after the 2am episode another nurse decided to change the style of nipple, allowing Molly to use her strong suck but not get as much air in her tummy. The pediatrician also started her on Zantac twice per day.
Molly continued to stay in the nursery to await the Apnea test. After the change to the other formula, the nipple and the Zantac, we saw no more blue episodes.
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