Baby Guy Guy…
Sixty seven hours into being a faja and what a journey already. As you can tell in the pictures above, he has an IV in his head. Let me explain…
About 24 hours into BabyNoob’s (Ethan) life he started breathing at a faster rate than normal. Nothing extremely alarming, but definitely worthy of a close eye by the doctors. In addition to the breathing, he was very uncoordinated with his feeding and we had to supplement right away. The doctors decided to keep MommyNoob and BabyNoob in the hospital another day for extra monitoring. After little progress with his breathing patterns, the doctor sent for an second opinion from the Paediatrician from the NICU. They made the call to get an X-Ray and two sets of bloodwork to rule out any hidden complications.
Within in a couple hours the results came back for all three; x-ray was good, first set of bloodwork was good, and second set was not so good. The last set of bloodwork was substantially higher than what is acceptable. Within a few minutes they were transferring our baby to the Intensive Care Unit to do more thorough examination. It came as a shock to us, because he seemed so healthy and strong. We followed the entourage into the curtained off room to see his little body be hooked up to machines like he was a scene from the Matrix. We were told that he would be a couple days here to assess and determine if there is any infection or what was happening. It was scary. We went back to MommyNoob’s room with a deep sense of worry. We cried, prayed and called our family with the little bit of news we had. It was soon feeding time again, so we walked back over to him and had the most successful feed of all time. It was exactly what we needed. Also, we appreciated our nurse as she was extremely caring and encouraging to us, reassuring us that this does not seem serious, but rather precautionary.
This morning we met with the doctor and she explained that he is perfectly healthy for everything except this one test, and is waiting for one more test to come back to help rule out any potential forming infections. The doctor thinks that he could be released tomorrow, but they wanted to make sure he was 100% before they let him go home. What an amazing team of professionals at this hospital that have a overt passion and love for their patients.
A huge weight was lifted off our shoulders, hearing that he could be coming home tomorrow. MommyNoob was discharged this morning, allowing for us to come home, shower, eat and nap. We will go back later to feed and cuddle him as much as we can. We may be parent noobs, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. From the moment I held him, a new part of my heart was opened up. It has only been a couple hours since I saw him and I already miss his soft skin and little fingers. It was a little hard to see him with an IV in his head, as they had to shave a little piece of his hair off, but the nurse kept it and put a note with it saying; “Ethan’s first haircut!”
Now, if that does make you wanna tear up, I don’t know what will…
There you have it. That’s the scope on my little mini me. His is doing good, and we are hoping for a positive report so that we can bring him home. Thanks for all the support and love.
DaddyNoob
