Nothing like a trip to the ER on Christmas morning

Since Elias' bilirubin levels were not very good at his follow up pedi appt they decided he needed the bilirubin blanket, which also meant we had to visited by a home health care nurse each morning so she could prick his heal to check his levels. Well the one that came today thought he was breathing funny, which freaked us out. (EXACTLY what a first time parent of a 6 day old baby wants to hear!) She had us call the oncall pedi and see what they had to say. Well since the pedi couldnt see him over the phone she thought it would be better safe than sorry and take him to the pediatric er at Chippinham. Talk about FREAKED out. Sean and Chantel had just shown up at our house right when all this was happening so it was complete chaos. The home health care nurse was preparing us for the worst. She told us to pack a bag because we would probably have to stay over night to monitor him. Tears were streaming down my face and I could see B's eyes start to tear up. When we got to the ER they took us back right away. The pedi there came and looked at him and she said he was perfectly fine. She thinks that his full belly from eating was just pressing on his diaphram and thats what caused his funny breathing. She wanted to get us out of there as soon as possible and told us not to touch anything on the way out. She hated that we had a newborn baby at the ER during the middle of flu season. Ummmm....SO DID WE! After all that chaos, things calmed down and we had Christmas dinner at our house! Crazy. Our first hosted holiday dinner. (and maybe our first dinner that we had had people over!)It went pretty well. Wasnt anything fancy considering we had a newborn, but it was fun. We had planned on going to B's parents but we couldnt take our lil monkey away from his tail. AKA the bilirubin blanket. So they came to us. :) Hope everyone had an amazing holiday :)