Brady's Visit with Mommy at the Hospital

Brady came to visit while I was at the hospital. He had a blast, as you can tell from these photos.














The bad part about his visit - he couldn't meet Noelle. Why you ask?

The stupid hospital had a stupid policy that required Noelle to be monitored in the NICU for 24 hours because I had a fever of 100.4 (cut-off is 100.3) while laboring and they claimed that she could have an infection of some sort. They also insisted that she receive preventative antibiotics through an IV for that time period.

I attempted to negotiate with the hospital but was unsuccessful. The fact that my fever went down on its own was unimportant. Also unimportant was the fact that when Brady was born 18 months ago at the same hospital, I also spiked a fever but this policy didn't exist and Brady was just fine.

The end result: She was fine and didn't need the antibiotics, IV or NICU stay in the first place. I spent a day and night trekking 2 floors to the NICU to feed her and see her. That's really awesome to do immediately after delivery. I'm just waiting for my hospital survey to come in the mail to tell them how awful this stupid policy is. I may also call.

Even better, when our regular pediatrician saw her on the day we were discharged, she was appalled by the procedure and thought it was unnecessary as well. She had no idea why it existed and said she too thought it was not great to give antibiotics preventatively when it was not necessary.