My newborn son was born on christmas day and is still in neonatal intensive care unit. He had blood and mucus in his stool, elevated crp test (13) which we are told indicates infection/inflammation, fever of 101 at 24 hours of age but dropped when put on ampicillin/genomicin. The fever and crp are now normal and there is no blood visible to the eye but it is still present when stool is tested at the lab. The doctors checked for anal fissures and originally thought there was evidence of some but upon closer inspection ruled them out. X-ray of the gut is fine. Baby was breastfed originally, then starved for 48 hours to clean it out, then nutramigen formula and now breastmilk again (all clinical trials I guess). Baby is otherwise completely fine (eats, sleeps, fusses for food when it's time) but he can't come home until the traces of blood in his stool are gone. Can anyone make sense of this? I am not interested in putting my 1-week old through invasive gi procedures if I don't have to but that's what is next