

I'm just now posting about Ayla's apnea scare now because I was just too stressed out to do it before.
On Valentines Day (a week ago today) night, Ayla had an apnea episode about a half an hour after she ate. I was holding her and Gus and I were watching TV. All of a sudden I felt her stiffen up and her eyes were wide open and she was turning purplish - blue. I immediately screamed for Gus to call 911 because I knew she wasn't breathing. I started pounding on her back while running to find her nose sucker. Once I found it, I saw formula coming out of her nose. I sucked it out and pounded on her back again and she started crying. To make a long story short, I called her pediatrician and she sent us to St. Lukes Hospital for the night. We found out the apnea was from her reflux problem in which we already knew she had and was on medicine for. Since then, she has had breathing trouble again from mucus which is from her reflux problem, and she spent last night (Friday) and will be spending tonight (Saturday) in the hospital. They said she is fine. They have tested her and she does have mild reflux (they did xrays while making her drink this white chalky stuff) and we have her on better medicine. We've made some changes and we are just going to hope that this gets better. Last night they sent me home because I was delirious from not getting enough sleep this past week (maybe 2 hours a night if I'm lucky). They are sending me home again tonight which is great because I know she's in good hands and I will be nice and refreshed when she comes home. I slept HARD last night- 12 hours. But somehow I still feel like I could use another good nights sleep. They are just watching her for no reason in particular... just to make sure she continues to do well. (And they keep telling me to SLEEP!)
I look forward to our sweet baby coming home but am so worried that we will have to go through this agian. Keep your fingers crossed for us.

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