So we arrived at Eggleston around 3:40 and they got us back into a room pretty quickly. Nina and Erin were freaking out in the waiting room with all the other families around (if you didn't know it, they are extreme germophobes)...so it was good that they got us back there so quickly. We saw Dr. Ngyuen and she was very sweet in explaining why they were concerned and what they were going to be doing....which amounted to drawing some blood and running some tests. One of the head nurses, a guy named Tyson, came and got him and weighed him again and then got started trying to draw some blood. They were also going to put in an IV....and wanted to do all of this with one try. Unfortunately, this was not going to be the case, as O-daddy's veins were very small (he is only 3 days old) and he was dehydrated. After several attempts at several different locations, Tyson, who was absolutely wonderful (by the way) was called to a trauma case and "Downtown" Kisha Brown took over. She found a vein on her first try (which didn't come till almost 6 PM....just to give you a time frame) and we got some saline in him and started up the IV with electrolytes. We also tried to feed him a couple of times during this time in the ER but he still wasn't very cooperative. We then started having Erin pump (see the picture) and we introduced him to a bottle...which he has been taking pretty well. We were in a holding pattern until around 9 when they finally told us that his billirubin count (which leads to jaundice) was around 16 (pretty high) and they wanted us to stay overnight with Little O under a special light. After 2+ more hours of waiting, we finally headed upstairs.
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