Elsie Update

Elsie won't be able to come home for at least a few more days. She is having trouble getting enough oxygen into her blood when she cries. She can only make short shallow breaths when crying, but its totally fine otherwise. The Dr. thinks that it may be that her voice box isn't fully developed yet and it will hopefully heal by itself. They are going to just monitor it and see how it progesses. There are some other possible reasons but since it's mild they haven't done a comprehensive check yet because they want to see if it improves on it's own first.

She also may have an infection which could keep her at the hospital 7-10 days for IV Antibiotics. The first blood test came back positive for E Coli so they did another test and we should find out tomorrow the results. If the second test is positive then she would need to stay for 7-10 days for additional Antibiotics.

Here are some new pictures of her!