Might get NB on methadone

Mine was released from the hospital at 4 days old on nothing because she was born in a suburban hospital that wasn't used to seeing this kind of thing and they were ignorant. They use a rating system to rate the withdrawal by the baby's symptoms. The original nursery had rated her quite high and transferred her to the hospital's small NICU. The NICU disagreed with that rating and gave her a much, much lower score. That is why they released her to me on nothing with virtually no info on what she could experience. So the baby was having pretty severe tremors with me almost immediately. Took her to the ped the parents' picked out and he acted like I was making it up. The parents were with too so I couldn't be as direct as I wanted. They wanted me to take her back the next day so I did. It was a Saturday so I saw another ped at the same practice (with the parents again) and she started throwing out absolutely bogus diagnosis for these tremors. I was more frank this time, but she didn't respond to it. It was like I was in the twilight zone. They had it in the file that this baby was born positive for heroin! Thankfully, I had the best investigator CW I could have and she was as frustrated as I was so she ended up being able to get in touch with a child abuse specialist ped who worked at one of the children's hospitals in the city here. He was furious when he heard her symptoms and I was told to immediately bring her in to that hospital's ER. She then had one of her episodes in the ER so they saw exactly what I was talking about. She was admitted for three days and put on methadone. So she was 9 days when she came home again with me, but she did spend 48 hours with me before being readmitted. Sorry for the novel!