Bad Dream!

I fell asleep and had a bad dream. But when I woke up, I was still in it.
We've hit a little road block with Emery and I'm in the Phoenix Children's Hospital.
{My mother-in-law mentioned that we have to be careful with this pregnancy because my track record has been every other baby. Quinn, who had a heart defect and passed away, then big healthy Afton, then Brinlee and Baylee; Baylee being stillborn and a month hospital stay and medication and concern for Brinlee. Then we had big healthy Makoa. And now we have Emery. The pregnancy went well and everything was great until now. So really Randee is right, every other baby of mine has spent some time here at Phoenix Children's.}
There really is no better Children's Hospital. I have a love, hate relationship with this hospital.
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And now that I've kept you in suspense, I want to tell you that everything is ok.
Last Sunday, all day I could not get Emery to wake up and eat. She slept six hours on Saturday night and I woke up freaking out because she needed to eat, She was already down in birth weight and the doctor wanted me to supplement. Emery is 11 days old and she is still down ten ounces from when she was born and losing more.
Anyways, she was so lethargic and hadn't really eaten anything all day, so Greg and took her over to a Phoenix Children's Urgent Care. Emery had a big puss ball on the side of her toe and it looked like an ingrown toenail, so I thought maybe she was fighting an infection from her toe and that's why she was so tired. However, the urgent care had an ambulance come and get us and take us down to Phoenix Children's where they ran several tests of thing that it may be, then we were admitted.
We had an EKG done today and it came back normal with a small murmur. All the blood tests and spinal and urine tests have come back negative. She was put on antibiotics right away because that's what they do with this little of ones. Her toe looks alot better.
What we have decided was that she had some sort of little infection that the antibiotics helped with. She got Brin and Makoa's virus, that we tried so hard for her not to get. (I came home to a household of sickies, but I have a cool story about that for another blog.)
And Emery has an immature pallet, making it hard for her to nurse and get the nutrients that she needs to grow. We were in a vicious little cycle of nursing ineffectively, losing energy and falling asleep. and it just spiralled downhill. They call it failure to thrive.
So, I worked with an amazing lactation consultant today and we hashed out a plan to turn this little Emery around. The LC said that she's seen babies turn around after a few days and be completely different babies. We are hoping that it will be us. We have to stay here for a few more days and watch her weight gain.
I hope that all this makes sense because I haven't slept in a few days now and I can't really think straight.
I wanted to say thanks to everyone who has kept us in their thoughts and prayers. There could have been several things wrong that haven't been and I 'm so grateful that we know what our road block is and we have a plan.
Love you all!
I'll post more pictures of our princess when I get home! Mahalo!