Desperate Mom Seeking Advise:

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:if anyone can help with support, prayers, or information i would greatly appreciate it! on june 3 we brought our beautiful kayla rose into the world. she was a week overdue and i was induced. i had a shot to kill the pain about an hour before i had her (cannot remember the name of the shot) then about 5 minutes before i started pushing they finally put the epideral in! otherwise i had a very healthy and drug free past full term pregnancy! i only had to push three times, but on the second push i had to breath thru some contractions because they had to suction her because she had some meconium! they then took her right away to the warmer and suctioned her a little more. she turned blue and clamped her jaws together so she couldnt get the oxygen they tried to give her thru the bag. so they finally got her to take it. she had two more episodes after that. they immediatly took her to the nicu! when i went up to see her they had a dome shaped helmet over her head giving her oxygen! she was very tense and very irritable. the nurses said nothing would comfort her. they decided that she was having seizures and the second night at the hospital put her on phenobarbital (an anti seizure med) she is now 11 days old and has not come home from the hospital yet. she has had every test known to man done on her poor little body. she has had a spinal tap, tons of blood drawn, 3 eeg's (fourth one tomorrow), a cat scan, an mri, chest, lung, and heart x-rays and ultrasounds, and shes on a steady level of 50mg of the phenobarbital! every test has come back negative or with nothing wrong (thank god) but they have no idea why this is occuring and our little angel is so sedated that we have only seen her awake a handful of times! shes not bottle feeding because shes too sleepy. she gets 2 ozs thru tube feedings every 3 hours. she has gone from 7lbs 7ozs to 8lbs 4ozs. she is off all her antivirals and antibiotics and all of her vitamin suppl., and she gets her phenobarb thru her formula. this is my second child and my first never had any problems at all! can anyone give me any insight???? we just want our angel better and home with us, but they cant figure out why this is happening! anyone that can share soemthing with me please!!!!!! do!

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Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

I am truly sorry you are going through such a frightening time with your precious little one. We at AllNurses cannot offer any medical advice. Please follow up with your nurse midwife or primary care OBGYN - Hopefully answers will be forthcoming soon. I will be keeping you and your little one in my prayers.

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NOT ASKING FOR MEDICAL ADVISE!

Just any ideas. They have run a battery of test and I was looking for some inspiration for this mom. -Anything as far as experience that could be of relevance or consolation. She is a first time mom and is lost in the this situation.

I understand this site (or any ) is unable to give medical advise nor would I ask you to - I just thoght some of the OB nurses may have encountered simmilar situatuions that may ease her mind or give her an idea as you may understand.

The post was her words and I had not taken the time to fully describe my wishes. Sorry

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

She needs to stay in close contact with the Pediatrician and/or other HCPs. They are the only ones who can possibly advise in a situation as this. Unfortunately, when these type of questions are posed here on at allnurses, advice is almost unavoidable by some.

Please tell her our good wishes are with her and that we will keep her in our thoughts and prayers.

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