Prayers please.
Today in the matter of one hour my 20 day old baby girl's eye went from normal to swollen, red, with quite a bit of drainage. We assumed it was just a clogged duct because her pediatrician told us that happens a lot with new babies. We were still planning to take her in the morning to her pediatrician though because she somehow ended up with a staph infection on her finger. (We have no clue how. We're clean, we keep her clean, and the few people who have been allowed to visit wash their hands before holding her. Doctor believes she got it while in the hospital.) The doctor made me feel better by saying it's very common and gave us medicine. The medicine we have been putting on it has made it look so much better. Well then an hour after it started to swell she started crying and a very large amount of drainage came out of her eye, enough to scare me so we went to the closest ER immediately. The nurses made me feel like such a bad mommy when I told them about the infection she had on her finger. They kept asking me "how did she get staph?" Repeatedly, and I overheard them talking badly about me while they were in the nurses station. As if I didn't already feel guilty enough. But, they swabbed my daughters eye and gave us an antibiotic ointment to put on her lower lash line. We will find out in 48-72 hours what it is. I'm terrified and feeling guilty. I'm terrified it's staph in her eye, I'm terrified it's going to spread to her other eye, I'm terrified she could go blind or it harm her even worse somehow. I am just so scared. I'm her mommy, I am supposed to protect her from everything and in her short 20 days of life she's having troubles. I've failed her 😓 please please please pray this isn't anything serious and that my sweet baby will be okay. Please. I feel so helpless.

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