first hospital experience

sunday night i finally decided to take ellie to the ER. after more than 3 days of being really fussy, some throwing up, and not eating well we thought it best. at first i thought changing up the formula she was eating might solve it, but 2 different formulas didn't change anything. nate had to go to work sunday night and i just didn't think i could do another night like the last 3, especially alone. so anyways, we went to Cardon Children's. they drew blood and urine and initially found some bacteria in her urine so they wanted to rule out meningitis. i guess being irritable and decreased feeding is one of the first signs of infection. fortunately, the result for meningitis was also negative, but they still admitted her due to the initial concerns and because of her age/size. she saw the pediatrician monday morning and we were really impressed with her. the MD didn't seem too concerned about infection and my main concern was never infection, but rather that she has something wrong with her GI tract/system. so the MD is having speech pathology evaluate her suck/swallow to see if she just doesn't have the proper technique; also going to do an upper GI study to eval for reflux and also a barrium swallow which will look for structural concerns.
sounds like we will most likely be going home tomorrow and hopefully with answers.
i am looking forward to taking our baby home. i love her so much.