Chloe's Tummy

6: 30 Friday night, Chloe found some little button batteries on the living room floor and she swallowed not one, but TWO of them! Now, I know you're asking how she got them... Well, earlier in the day Lane was playing with a helicopter toy and he admittedly took the batteries out and left them on the floor. So when Chloe came across them, she naturally put them in her mouth and proceeded to eat them! Thank God that I saw her chewing on the 3rd one, or we might have never known she had them.



I rushed her to the ER where they sent us for an X-ray. Sure enough there they were in her little tummy. So at 11:15 pm we are driving to San Diego to Balboa Medical Center because that is where they have pediatric surgeons!

1:30 am we are getting another X-ray and the batteries are still in Chloe's stomach. 2:00 am we are all 4 finally getting to sleep in the tiny little hospital curtain! We were sharing a room with two other babies and so Lane and I slept on the tiny pull out chair and Paul slept on the Cold, Hard floor! We spend the next few hours waiting to talk to doctors and waiting to see if Chloe's batteries are going to pass and trying to nap as much as we can.

Around 11 am we go for another series of X-rays and find that the batteries are still in the stomach and the docotrs decide to take them out! We were told not to feed her anything until after the procedure.

By 4:00 pm, Chloe is fitted with a little tiny baby IV and we are headed to the OR to retrieve these pesky batteries. And 30 minutes later they are out and Chloe is AWAKE! The procedure was pretty straight forward: They put a tube down her throat with a little camera and a little net. They scooped each battery up and brought it out. One if not both batteries were leaking and had left little "scratches" on the lining of her stomach, so she will take Prevacid for the next two weeks to help those erosions heal. She was able to eat immediately after she woke up, in fact, I nursed her as she was waking up.

Around 8 pm we find out that they are discharging us so we pack up and wait for the papers and Chloe's Rx.

By 9 pm we are on the road home...And by 9:30 we are home and Chloe is getting into bed! Whew! Such a long day at the hospital, but we are glad that nothing too serious came from it. We are also very thankful for two healthy kids!!

Below are pics of Chloe's little stomach. I don't have any other pics of her ER or Hospital visit...I wasn't thinking about grabbing my camera at the time, however, I wish I had it with me! (You can enlarge these pics by clicking them.)