Sick Baby

Please pray for us this morning. We spent the day with Gus V yesterday and had a blast; everything was great. We were wiped out, however, and sent him to the nursery last night. While he was there, the staff determined that Gus had developed a low-grade fever and was breathing too quickly, so they decided to do a chest x-ray and blood work to check for possible infection as a result of me (Amy) being group b strep positive. They give you antibiotics in labor if you are positive, but they had a lot of trouble getting my IV in so my doses happened pretty late in the process so it may be that they were not entirely successful.

Gus's x-ray this morning showed some possible congestion in his lungs and he had a slightly elevated level of some type of inflammation thingy in his blood (don't quite understand it all.) So he has been admitted to the NICU for 48 hours of antibiotics and monitoring.

We are allowed to visit whenever we want, but of course we miss him terribly. Just please pray that the medicines would head off any possible infections, that Scott and I would trust and not worry and that we would all be able to be home together soon. We hope to have him back for good on Monday, but it could be as long as a week. He spends most of his time sleeping, and he's not in any pain, but it's just so hard to leave him alone. Thanks for your prayers!!