Belly Button Issues

Unfortunately, we had to see Dr. Gollnick a little earlier than we had hoped. Ella woke-up this morning with puss coming from her belly button. Her cord fell off a few days ago, but it wasn't totally healed... Dr. Gollnick was going to admit us to the hospital for IV antibiotics, but because she wasn't running a fever and we promised that we would check often and take her to the ER if she began to run a temp...she decided that we could go to Community North Hospital and get some blood tests, and if those came back OK, we could just do oral antibiotics. Thank goodness that Scott's Aunt Sally was with us because it was a very difficult day for both Ella and Mommy. They sent us to the in hospital lab, where they stuck her twice with no luck, then had me nurse her to see if her veins would "plump-up"...that didn't work. So they sent us to the pediatric unit where they stuck her again and finally got what they needed! The Dr. on call was supposed to call us with the results to let us know if we were OK to stay at home or if we needed to go back to the hospital. When she called, the news wasn't what we expected...the blood that they got from Ella had clotted, which means that they couldn't run the tests on it that they needed. Ella was still without a fever so that Dr. said that we could stay at home and start giving her the oral antibiotics. It was a scary ordeal, and Ella was fine through the whole thing! It really makes you thankful that you have a healthy baby and your heart goes out to those who don't!! We got word a day or two later that the infection that Ella had was a staph infection and it was cleared up in about a week...good as new!!