I took Braden back to see the pediatrician today. Unfortunately the culture they took Monday didn’t show anything because there wasn’t enough of the goo, so she wanted to redo it today. Once she looked at the spot though, she decided that it needed to be drained Sound familiar? Yep, this is exactly what we went through with Braden’s breast when he was 2 weeks old. I said it then and I’ll say it now, no parent should ever have to hold their child down and watch them go through that. It was awful and heartbreaking, he kept screaming “NO! MOMMY! NO! HURT! NO!”. Then in typical Braden fashion, he bit a nurse. It took 3 of us to hold him down. Poor little (well, not so little, according to their scales, he’s weighing in at 38 pounds these days) guy.

They’ll call us with the lab results when they come in, but she’s convinced that its MRSA. Hopefully they won’t have to drain it again and this will all be behind us now.