I've had a cold since last Monday, and I thought Dominic had caught it from me, but Friday his cry was very weak and he didn't want to eat. He would try but would only get a half ounce then cry and fall asleep again for 30 minutes, then up crying weakly again. The ped had said to give him PediaCare when I thought it was only a cold, but by 5pm on Friday I just felt that it was something worse and I needed to take him in. The ped had gone home and I didn't know if he was bad enough for the ER, so I went to Patient First and they took Xrays and labs and said they thought he had pneumonia but to go to CHKD (the children's hospital here) ER to double-check. Well at CHKD the nurse in triage put him on a pulse-ox and his sats were at 82%, so he was rushed back and put on a nasal canula for humidified oxygen, and they gave him two nebulizer treatments (after the second he perked up enough to eat a full 4oz bottle), put him on IV fluids, and admitted him.

He tested positive for RSV and the radiologist found a small spot of pneumonia in his left lung. He was on oxygen via nasal canula, IV fluids and antibiotics. All Saturday night he was yanking his canula off, but he maintained his sats at above 95% so they took the canula off at 7am. We came home about 6pm on Sunday. He is doing much better and is alert and eating. He is still pretty unhappy from all the poking and prodding this weekend. He will be on antibiotics for the next 8 days.

Christian is coughing also and a little congested, and the docs agree he probably has a mild case of RSV. I am supposed to just watch that he doesn't worsen. So far he is eating, sleeping, and acting normally, just has that cough and runny nose. He seems happy to have Mom and his twin home.

It is also the consensus that I gave it to them I wanted to die. I didn't have a choice but to take care of my babies while I had a cold tho...

There is a medicine called Synagis which is basically lab-created antibodies against respiratory infection. Our insurance would not cover the Synagis shots ("they don't meet the criteria"). We now have a new provider as of Jan 1st, I don't know if they would have covered, but DH plans to call both insurance companies tomorrow morning (holiday today) and ream them a new one, because the ped said if they'd had the Synagis shots like she wanted, this wouldn't have happened . It costs $1000 a shot and they need one every month from October through March. We can't afford to pay out of pocket, so we tried just keeping them in lock-down (they've only been out of the house maybe 5 times since they were born).