Here he is in all his glory
This is me in all my glory the night before: Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve we spent the night at Damien's parents in Eagle Mountain. I woke up just before 3 am thinking I needed to go to the hospital. I started timing my contractions and wasn't consistant enough to go. I was awake from then on for the day. I had lovely contractions amid opening Christmas presents. It was interesting. After 11 my father-in-law insisted we leave for the hospital. We left but my contractions were not consistant. Anyways, Damien drove in the median from the ranches in Eagles Mtn all the way to the fwy on Lehi Main driving as fast as he could. He really wanted a police car to chase us to the hospital. It didn't happen though. We got there in 22 minutes! The nurses checked me and I was a 7. Not long after it was time to push. Damien had my nurse and midwife take bets on how long I would push. One said 45 minutes the other said 35 minutes. The nurse won, being over about 5 minutes.
Well Blake was flaring his nostrils when he was born, which apparently is bad. So they took him down to the nursery shortly after he was born. Damien said he really liked getting his head scrubbed and his bath. On saturday night he got congested somehow, which interfered with his breathing and eating. He had an extremely high respiratory rate so they admitted him to the level II nursery. They put an IV in and all sorts of monitors and cords. With his congestion as bad as it was they worried he had RSV. So then we had to wear masks, gloves, and gowns til the test results came back. That was terrible. He just slept the days away though, he was wearing himself out breathing so fast. Then they had to put a feeding tube in which looks terrible. Once his respiratory rate came down I started feeding him again. And he did really good. So everything started to get better, his respiratory rate went down, his congestion wasn't too bad, he was eating himself. The problem was that his oxygen saturation would dip down once in awhile. So then he had to be put on oxygen. They took his IV out though and his feeding tube. We left the hospital after a week and are so glad to be gone. He is still on the oxygen as you can see his little cannula in his nose. The Dr.s say he should ween off of that within a month or so, maybe sooner. So here are some fun pics of our little guy
You can see his ginger hair in this picture
Meeting Grandpa Robby and Grandma Debby
He loves baths!
Thanks for all the well wishes! Love you all
8 comments:
He is just way too adorable for his own good! Congrats you guys!!
Hey!!! I am so happy you posted about this! So sad for Blake, I hope he gets well soon :). I am happy for you...Your a MOMMY now!
Deb your a great lookin Grandma. we are so happy for you all. Hope he is better soon.
I'm so glad that everthing turned out great! He's so precious and hopefully we'll have one of our own by the end of the year!!! :) Love you Z! I wish we kept in touch better! I'm really bad at that! But anyway Congrat's you are going to be an AWESOME mom!
yes - I can see the red in his hair......Thanks for posting...figures I should have looked here first nstead of facebook!!!! Hope you are all doing well - kiss him for us..the girls think he is adorable and told everyone how exciting it was that their cousing was born on Christmas Day :)
What a precious little guy. I am so excited to meet him this summer. Love the picture with your parents, Rob looks so cool, like yeah, I am a grandpa...your mom looks so proud and so excited. I love the one the Damien is holding him, so cute. And his little bath. Wishing you all well and will be looking for lots more pictures. Love ya!!!
He is SO cute Zoey!! i really want to come meet him. I'm glad he is doing better! He is so cute!!! I love the picture with grandma deb and grandpa rob. It's so cute!
Congrats Zoey! He's beautiful!
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