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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Good christ, I call the dr on a weekend for a goddamn uti.
Anyway, I'm sure, SURE, that Ty knows some dr he can ask.
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Okay, hospital horror story.......
Prelude
- we move from DC to Michigan, daughter born, wife breast feeds. At 4 months our ped (not really big breastfeeding proponent) says it is time to put her on solids. She was middle of the road weight etc.
Well, she takes to solids bigtime and is drinking less and less milk. but guess what? she keeps getting skinier and skinier. We're working with Ped and trying to figure it out.
The ER Story
-back to DC for a wedding, she's 7 or 8 months old- and has a hacking cough. This was the first time all our friends would see baby, and we were really looking forward to a festive weekend reunion.
We were staying in the hotel where the wedding was at, and so we drink abit much. Back to the room at maybe 11 or 12 because of baby. An hour or so later the coughing is much worse- after hand wringing, and fighting about whether to go, we get in a cab and go to the ER.
we wait the usual too long, but now we're half drunk and the festive reunion is clearly going away. then we see the ER doc who is with a young guy I assume is on rotation or whatever.
Doc- "she has a cold or virus. give her fluids and it'll go away. but let me ask you, why are you starving your baby?"
we explain we weren't but clearly he wasn't buying it and we had guilt hanging heavy over us.
Then, his young friend- "Maybe she has cystic fibrosis- that would explain the weight loss."
Hank was not equipped to web check CF and thus was fucked up the rest of the time until Monday when we coould check with her Ped and find out NNTW.
Epilouge
-We did fire our Ped and got to a pro-BF doc. As LLL will tell you milk fat = baby fat for the first year. She actually had a chubby phase so it all worked out. But point is, midnight shift at the ER, you don't know what you'll get.
That episode was as low a time as a parent as I ever had. I suppose that is fortunate.
