I was putting Ethans ID band in his memory box when i spotted his newborn one just under one of his name cards. Both were on his ankle at birth and the new on he is almost 8 months old!
The size difference never ceases to amaze me
Ethan has just had his first hospital admission since he came home.
He was seemingly getting a cold last Friday, you know the snotty nose, grumpy baby thing. Didn’t think too much of it. Just tried to keep him warm and fluids up. By Saturday night he was sounding fairly wheezy so we tried him on some ventolin. That had zero effect but he seemed ok within himself. So he had his bottle and went to bed.
Sunday he was really working to breathe and was sounding really wheezy. Plus he wasn’t really wanting any fluids or food, for those who know Ethan that is so unlike him! So I headed down to emergency with him.
He was triaged and taken through to Resus. They started the usual ventolin every 30 minutes x3. As suspected it had no effect on his wheeze at all and by this time he had gone all day with nothing to drink at all. He was sent off for x-rays and he was admitted with ?bronchiolitis.
Over the next couple of days my poor little boy got worse and worse. It was heartbreaking to watch him rock back and forth with each breathe. And he was so tired, i could compare him to a floppy doll. There was just nothing there.
He had a repeat chest x-ray which now showed he had some patches on his lower right lobe, so he started on antibiotics. He also had an NPA done, which is basically a test where they suck the snot out of him nose/throat. This came back RSV positive. 
Thankfully Thursday he woke up a different boy, although still quite wheezy he was smiling. Not feeding as well as he was but still taking some fluids and gobbling down his solids.
Seen the paed who was happy for him to go home. The wheeze seems to be a bit of a mystery. Whilst wheezing does fit with RSV it never changed with Ethan. So whilst he was improved the wheeze was still quite noticeable. So he has 2 weeks to clear it or we are back to see Dr Dunstan to figure out what exactly is going on with that. He is also going to see him again in 2 months for a premmie check, seems he is not impressed that a 33 weeker got off so easy with follow ups!
