**Wride Family**: Jaundice/Club Foot/Pneumonia

Man Our little Blake has sure given us a run for our money!!! First Jaundice!!!! Then 7 weeks of a cast for club foot!!!!! Then 2 days in the hospital for Pneumonia!!!!! And he is only 6 weeks old!! My goodness what do we have in store for us???!!!! Early Friday morning Blake woke up super congested and had a slight fever! We started to get a little concerned so we called my mom and dad and asked what we should do! My mom and Dad said to keep checking his temperature and see if you can wait till your doctors office opens and see what he says! So Chance and i pondered that and decided that that was probably a good idea! So That is what we did! We waited 3 hours for the doctors office to open and by that time his temperature was at 101.1 and my doctor said take him straight to the ER because a 6 week old should not have a temperature that high! So off i went to the ER! They did a bunch of tests and Blake did great through all of them! But his chest x-ray came back showing a little bit of Pneumonia in his right lung. So they told me he needs to be admitted for at least 48 hours! I was like WHOA ok!! So they put Blake on antibiotics and fluids! They poked him a million times to try to get an IV in but had no luck because his veins would just collapse. So they gave us the option of having it put in his head. They said that there are pros and cons. They said it is easy to get the IV in and it is not very painful to him. But the cons were that it was easier to pull out, it bleeds a lot more if it does get pulled out and it is jsut scarier because it is in his head. So we were faced with quite a decision! I didnt want him to get poked anymore but at the same time i know my son and i knew he would pull the IV right out because his hands are constantly up by his face and head. So if we did that he would have to be wrapped up in a blanket for the rest of the hospital stay and Blake doesnt like to be like that! So we were kind of going off of what the nurses were telling us because that decision was just too hard to make. So they brought an expert nurse in who rarely ever misses and works in the NICU. She ran lights all through his body to find the veins and found one more good vein she thought would work. So she poked him and sure enough his vein collapsed! So we said ok lets just do the head! So they got it in and got it all secured and sure enough not even 5 minutes later my fears came true.................. Blake reached up and pulled the IV halfway out!!!! MOMMY KNOWS!!!! I just knew that was going to happen! So they just pushed it back in and then like 30 minutes later the IV tube was tripped over and ripped right out of his head! It started bleeding really bad and it was so sad to look at! So really there was no point in doing it in the head! They ended up just not even putting the IV back in and he has been just fine! He doe snot need fluids anymore and they are just going to give him his last 2 doses of the antibiotics through a shot! Which i am really not too thrilled about but i dont want them to try and put the IV in anymore it is just pointless! But right now we are still at the hospital and Blake is doing great! In fact he just spent the last like 30 minutes smiling! So things are looking up! Here are some pictures!!!!