The Big Debut

Well most of you may know the traumatic entry little Winston had into this world, but many do not. Before I start I do want to say that everyone is fine. It was scary for a bit, but everyone is ok now.

Let's start with the labor. Going into induction on the 22nd of April at 5 am, I was not too scared. I knew I was getting the drugs, and I really just felt like it wasn't going to be that bad (haha). I also was prepared to have a long labor, I wasn't expecting anything less than 12 hours, but I was hoping I would at least have him on the 22nd. Oh was I wrong. It was not what I thought it would be. At first things weren't so bad, I started patosin, and didn't feel much. When I was dilated to a 3 (7 or so hours into labor) they broke my water. Right after that I made sure they got me that epidural. Anyway, as I kept dilating, I knew my epidural was working, but I was in a ton of pain cause of the pressure. I know people told me I would feel pressure, but this was so painful. It was awful. Then I got a fever. Since the babies heart wasn't being effected we just continued on with the labor and I got antibiotics. After some serious torture and pain It finally came time for me to start pushing, I started and after 2 1/2 hours he wasn't budging any further. When the doctor came in, I think the babies heart started increasing and things became crazy. All of a sudden Winston was getting vacuumed out of me. It was awful.

So 20 hours later, He was finally here. Not on the 22nd but the 23rd.

Well as soon as he got here, he had some complications. He had a fever, he wasn't crying, and had his cord around his neck twice. The nurses revived him, and then took him to the nursery. It was so good to hear him start crying.

In the nursery, they checked all of his vitals and ran some tests. The tests came back good. But the scare was now his head. He had major swelling in his head. It was a combination of being in the canal for so long, he was also face up, which put him in a bad position. But I think what made it worse was the vacuum. They wanted to keep him in the nursery to keep an eye on his head.

my poor baby

Well later that morning, they ran a cat scan on him and his brain had swelling as well as blood around the brain.

Here is a picture of the big bruise the next day :(

Well because of the cat scan results, the doctors thought it was best for little Winston to get moved over to BAnner Dessert where there is a better Nicu, They wanted to monitor him closer and check to see if the swelling goes down.

I finally got to hold him, and I just fell in love. He is the sweetest boy ever. (check out my swollen hand below)

The good thing is that neurologically, he was doing great. His behaviors were all completely normal.

Here Winston is before they took him over to BAnner Desert. It seriously broke my heart.

Look how precious he is.

When he got to the new hospital I was still at the other hospital so I didn't get to be with him. Nate and his mom were so great and stayed with Winston while my mom came and stayed with me

In the Nicu, his chest got cold and Nate didn't have any of his clothes with him, The Nicu is not used to having babies his size, so they had no clothes his size. They did find this huge onesie though. It was so funny to see him in it.

Well after 2 more cat scans, the doctors were able to see that his brain swelling went down and that the blood around his brain was significantly improved as well. They finally let us take him home. We were so relieved, thankful and happy.

It is so nice to have Winston home. We love him so much. He is such a good boy. Very calm, loves to eat and sleep, although we're working on getting him to not use the bottle and use mom instead. Hopefully he'll get a hang of breast feeding soon.

I can't tell you how grateful we are for all of your prayers. Thank you for all your support. We are so blessed to have so many good friends and family in our lives.

Winston, we love you and are so excited to have you in our lives.