In the NICU

A few hours after Olivia was born, after she'd just come back from the well-baby nursery for a group B strep test (which was negative), the nurse came to check her vital signs.  The nurse noticed her temperature was just a bit low so she had to go back to the nursery to hang out in the warmer for a bit.  While she was in the nursery getting warmed up, they noticed some irregular breathing, so they called in a neonatologist.  They decided that she had some kind of infection and needed to be on antibiotics so away she went to the NICU.  Unfortunately the only way to give babies antibiotics is by IV and the only place they can do that is in the NICU.  After running what seemed like a million different tests, they decided that she had a pneumonia.  Because I had been on antibiotics during labor, it made it so they weren't able to get a conclusive result on any bacterial cultures.  As frustrating as it was to never get a definite result back to know what kind of infection, they assured us that that was the best news because it meant her infection wasn't too severe. 

We didn't really get pictures of each of the 6 days she was in the NICU but here are pictures from her 3rd day in there

Poor thing, she had to have 3-4 IV's, one of which was in her little head.  I know the head is supposed to be one of the better spots for a baby's IV but it's so sad looking!

Our first family photo!  We meant to take one on the first day of her life but with all the commotion, it didn't happen...

And these are the pictures from her last day in the NICU.

This last one is a bit randomly placed but for some reason blogger isn't letting me move it so whatever.  This is right after her first bath, the bows in the NICU are so much cuter than the ones in labor and delivery!  We didn't get one of us giving her the bath cause our hands were full, sorry.  Also, the nurse was really proud of that faux hawk she gave her, I did NOT do that to her hair, let that be on the record.