Norah's First Hospital Stay

I was looking back on my blog and realized that I never wrote about Norah's trip to Texas Children's Hospital back in February. Norah was almost four months old when we were planning a weekend trip to Austin for our niece's first birthday. It has been nearly seven months since this all took place so I don't remember the exact details, but after a trip to the pediatrician with instructions to watch her swollen left eye overnight and call our doctor if it got worse, Chris and Weston headed to Austin with plans for Norah and I to follow on Saturday when her eye was better. Well, her poor eye ended up looking worse. Much worse. And she was running a fever. So after another trip to the pedi on Saturday we were sent to the TCH ER where we were admitted for an infected tear duct.

Norah was a great little patient. Thankfully she was young enough to not mind being trapped in a small room with no toys. My mom and sister kept me company until Chris and Weston made it back from Austin (they came right home when they heard we were being sent to the hospital).

This is what she looked like when we were on our way to our first appointment. Her left eye was a little swollen and there was a hard knot where her tear duct is. Dr. G massaged and pressed on her eye and green gunk came out. Yuck!!

Snuggling with Auntie after we were admitted.

Hanging out at the hospital with mama. 

And this is her eye after the probing procedure a very sweet ophthalmologist performed on her. Had she been just a little older they would have had to put her under general anesthesia for the procedure, so we were very thankful this happened and got taken care of when it did. She recovered very quickly and we were released the next morning to go home. We're so thankful for our healthy babies and having to go through even such a minor procedure such as this made us even more thankful for that.