(this is ment for the 19th but i wont have internet and plus i will be with the birthday boy so here it is a day early.)
So If you can't tell from the title today brennen turns 2... Wow I cant believe it is here... Seems like yesterday I had a sweet little baby that slept all the time and was pretty quite. Now he is a wild and crazy toddler....
Lets see recap of the day...
We arrived at the hospital at around 10 am to get ready to have a c section. I wasn't really nervous but more excited to get everything started. We checked in at the desk and got put into a room that I had to share. Thankfully We were only in there to get ready to have him. Everyone started taking their guesses on how big he was going to be while we waited until it was time to go. At 12 p.m. I was taken back to the OR, D came a little bit later. By 12:15 we hear the sweetest little cry. (Let's just say that having a c section was like the best thing ever. I felt nothing and recovered great.)
D got to hold him and the nurse showed him to me. She was so sweet taking a picture of all 3 of us. I didn't expect it or think to ask. They take him away from us to get weighed and cleaned up.
Then we here a nurse go oh my. D looks up and kinda looks worried. My dr. says no wonder you were having so may problems. He weighs 9 lbs and 10 oz. She told me that even if I hadn't had picked to have the c section that i would have had one. He was just too big.
By this time they have sent D and brennen to a room to finish getting looked at. I was wheeled in after a few where they hand him to me. This is when it kinda gets a little fuzzy. The nurse tells me that he isn't breathing normally and that he is being taken to the nicu. I am balling by this time not knowing what is going on or what's is wrong with him. She takes him away in a matter of a min or 2, places him in the incubator and leaves with the hubby following. At that second the family comes running in and I just want to scream and yell. I really didn't want to see anyone but brennen or my husband.
D and the nurse comes back after a little and tells me what is wrong with him. Tell me that he has tachypnea. Which means he is breathing faster then normal. Normal is about 60 beats per min and he was doing about 125 beats per min. He was going to have to stay there until it was 60 beats per min for 12 hours. This is very common in c section babies and if they are really big. The fluid wasn't pushed out of his lungs since I never pushed. Most babies only have to stay a few hours or a day. He stayed 5 days.
This was very hard for us to see him hooked up to all the wires. D was number one daddy in the nicu. They said how he never left unless it was the times that the unit was closed due to the dr. making their rounds. I had to wait 12 hours after having him to go and see him. Where we both finally got to hold him and kiss him.
While he was in there we were the only ones who could hold him and no one else could even touch him. I set an alarm every night to wake up every 3 hours to pump and freeze my milk since he still wasn't eating anything yet. Once he was d would take him what i had pumped. By the time he was 2 days old I was getting enough for about 3 to 4 oz of milk at each pumping/feeding time. they all seemed really impressed and didn't have to say much when I met with the lactation nurse. Which was nice since it was weird being out of the loop of not having him be with us. things were very different.
He never declined while in the nicu. Some days were better then others. he always looked so funny being in that little bed under to heat lamp next to 1 oz babies.(which were so sad, one was so early her skin was still seethrough) His head and feet almost touched the top and bottom of the little plastic bed. The nurses always said how good he was and how he never cried. they could prick him over and over in his sleep and he wouldn't cry. I believe he was awake a total or 3 or 4 times when i came to visit him in there. the rest of the time he was asleep.
Time line.....
had him tuesday 19th
would have been released by thursday the 21st
asked to stay extra night in my room because it was looking good on him getting to go home. friday 22nd
stayed in the "family rooms" in the nicu saturday 23rd
got released on sunday the 24th.
By friday he was placed in a little bed (like you have in your room when you have the baby) by the window of the nicu. He was ready to come off everything but heart monitor. they said if he did well at that he could stay with us in the family room.
We were so happy when they said he could leave the nicu pod and stay with us Saturday night. They told us that we had to only pick him up when we fed, changed or bathed him, but they wouldn't come running to check on us. we didn't care. we held him a ton.
We were getting ready to be discharged on Sunday morning. His blood pressure was up a little so they kept making us wait til it went down before we could leave. That was like 9 am and we didn't get to leave until 12 pm. It was so nice to come home and just sit and hold him without being told to when to put him down.
We will never forget the nurses and doctors that helped get our little boy ready to come home.
A huge thank you to all of them....
