Im sure everyone has heard by now but we now have a new addition to the family that no one thought would be here for another week (if I would have been induced on the 11th) or another 2 weeks (if I went to my due date on the 16th). Little did we know that Aidyn wanted to be here so soon and would be here on Jan. 15, 2009! I started having contractions around the 1st of January but had been to the Dr and hadnt had any change in dialation and I wasn't swollen or anything so she just decided that if I made it she would induce me on the Feb. 11th. So jump ahead a couple of weeks to Jan. 5....this day I was having really bad contractions and I already had a Dr. appt so I just waited it out until it was time to go to the Dr at 10:30, I left work and planned on going back but that didn't happen, my Dr. sent me home on bedrest for a week. So then jump ahead to Jan. 13....this day I had to close my store which means I had to work from 11:00 to 8:30 and by 2:30 I was so swollen that I could hardly walk my legs were hurting so bad but I decided to just tough it out and call my Dr the next day if things weren't better. On Jan. 14 I was having slight contractions but the thing that worried me the most was that I had a headache that I couldn't get rid of and I was swelling really bad and very rapidly (which my Dr said to call her at first signs) so that is what I did. She told me to come in so that she could check my blood pressure and some other things to make sure everything was ok. Well, when I got there my blood pressure was elevated and I had some protein traces, so then she checked to make sure I wasn't dialated and I was dialated to 2 1/2 cm (which on Jan 5 I wasn't dialated AT ALL). So she decided she wanted to send me to L&D to do some lab work because she would get the results back immediately, she also wanted to monitor me and baby. So I called my mom and she couldn't make it to the hospital at that point so she called Kara and Kara came to be with me as soon as she got off work. Well around 6:30 pm the Dr on call came up to check on me and give me the results of all my blood work, he stated that my platelet count was extremely low and I was severely anemic so he wanted to keep me overnight and do a 24 hour urine test and more blood work, he then checked to see if I was dialated and little did we know that when he checked me I would be 4 CM!!! I was in full blown labor and at this point they didn't want to stop labor because there was obviously a reason I had went into labor and Aidyn knew he shouldn't be in there anymore. The Dr. also made me aware at this point that I was unable to get an epidural because my platelet count was too low and they were worried about a blood clot forming in my spine when they would put the epidural in. At this point I was extremely scared that I wouldn't be able to do this. The night went on and I progressed to 5 cm by 8:30 and they broke my water. At this point everything gets a little blurry because I started getting extremely tired and contractions were getting really bad since they had broken my water. I can't remember what time they actually started the pitocin but once that was started everything progressed very quickly. I know around 9:30 am the nurse came in to check me because I was feeling a little pressure and she said I was 9 cm and it would probably be another hour so she left and literally 5 mins later I screamed get the nurse I have to push! She came in and checked me and I was 10 cm and everyone was scrambling to get things ready. It seemed like an eternity before they got everything ready and my Dr got there. Everyone says I only pushed for 5 or 10 mins but to me it seemed like forever. Our little man was born at 9:47 am on Jan. 15, 2009!! He was a healthy boy but needed some help breathing because his lungs were not developed all the way and he also still had the fluid in his chest that apparently they have while in the womb and they get rid of before their born but because he was born 5 weeks early it was still there so he needed help breathing. I got to see him for about 5 secs before they whisked him away to the NICU and then I didn't get to see him again until about 4:30 pm that night. That was the longest time ever!! When we went to see him this is what we saw......
This obviously scared us to death but we knew we had alot of people praying for him and that he would soon be well and coming home with us. That night around 8:30pm the Dr from the NICU called and told us that he was going to have to be transferred to Shands NICU and they would be life flighting him there in about an hour and we needed to come and see him off. This was devastating for me because I wasn't being released from the hospital at this point and I actually had to end up staying 2 days after he was transferred. I got discharged on that Saturday Jan 17 and we went straight to see him. When we got there this is what we saw...
At this point he was on a ventilator and was very swollen from all the fluid on him! He stayed in Shands until Jan 22 and then he was transferred back to North Florida (where he was born). He did very well everyday but it was a very hard process because the more he got better the harder it was for us to understand why he couldn't come home. On Jan 29 they asked me to stay overnight with him in the hospital so that I could learn techniques to feed him incase he wasn't eating his minimums as required. Well I stayed and he did extremely well for me so on Friday Jan 30 it was time for him to come home after a very LONG 2 weeks!! Here is a pic of us getting ready to leave the hospital as a family of 4....
Here are a couple pics of him and Ava since he has been home! She absolutely loves her brother!! Sorry this post was so long but I've had a lot of people ask me what actually happend for him to have to be born so early so now you all have all the information! Enjoy the pics!
Again sorry this is so long but Im sure everyone understands!! I will be posting more hopefully later on today of things that have been going on as well....as far as Ava's potty training and her new big girl bedroom! :)
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