The Precious Lamb of God: Jaeden's Story: (7-30-08 post) Getting Close

Thursday, July 31, 2008

(7-30-08 post) Getting Close

What an interesting day it was. The plans for today were to do Jaeden's laundry so I could take more clothes to him in the afternoon. Daddy had different plans for us. Unfortunately, Mr. Gibbs, Daddy that is, hurt himself. He left work early, we went to the Emergency Room and after about 3 1/2 hours and some test the diagnosis was achilles tendonitis. So now Daddy is on crutches and somewhat out of commission for a couple days.

Needless to say, after doing the laundry at 6:30 am and spending over 3 hours in the ER, I was Whuppped!!!!! We opted to go to sleep for a few hours before we going into the city to see Jaeden and possibly make it for his 10 o'clock feeding. 8 o'clock came around but I was working in SLOW motion. We did, however, make it in right on time for Jaeden's 10 o'clock feeding and let me just say that the little man is not so little and surely was ready to eat. It was our first time hearing Jaeden cry because he wanted to be fed. Daddy held him for a few minutes while I prepared his bottle and all of a sudden we realized the he stopped crying. Of course, when I turn back to find out what had him so intrigued to take his focus away from eating, I see this little one with his thumb in his mouth and his lips just going. I know you saw the picture of him sucking his thumb so I guess it is official. Jaeden has discovered his fingers and he will be a thumb sucker. I suppose I can let him get away with it...FOR NOW!!! ;-)

The Big news is that....

JAEDEN IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!

All the signs show that he is a healthy little boy. He is a preemie but he is a soldier who has been fighting to beat all the odds and we can say that he definitely has. He is getting really close to being home and we are all so excited. We are just beside ourselves as his discharge day arrives. We don't have an exact day, but at the rate that Jaeden is going it is around the corner. He is drinking 2 oz (60 cc's) of milk now and is just a few grams shy of 5 lbs. It doesn't get any better than that. Well, actually, his arrival home will be priceless, but we are loving all the progress he has made and continues to make. I left my camera home, but you can see the tremendous difference in him instantly. You can see the weight on him and he is just a completely different baby. Jaeden did forgive us for not going during the day. We explained the whole deal to him and after seeing us during the night shift, I think we made it up to him. ;-)

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How we got here!

It all started in December. I was sick as a dog. I had a cold, a cough that wouldn't quit and the headaches didn't stop. I remember coming home from work on a Friday feeling like crap. This was completely unrelated to the fact that I had missed my period and was wondering why. When I got home, I took a home pregnancy test but it came back negative. I was cool with that. This was already the third day I was feeling as if I were coming down with a bad cold or the flu. I go to bed Friday and stayed in the bed all day Saturday. My husband kept saying, C do you want to go to the ER. They may be able to give you some antibiotics or something. I thought I would be ok with some OTC medicine. I wake up Sunday, now I'm feeling worse. I finally take my husband's advice and we go to the ER. The doctor's asked me if I was pregnant, I said No. Remember I just took the home test two days before. OK. They said I had some type of upper respiratory infection but they could not give me anything because when they took my urine it came back positive for pregnancy. Of course, I felt like a deer caught in headlights. What do you mean, I'm pregnant? Hello, I just took a test that said Negative. Arthur and I were shocked, but happy at the same time. We discussed having a baby, but the timeline we had in mind, was a little later than this. God had different plans.

Nothing about this pregnancy was easy. Arthur and I were back and forth to the ER. There were episodes of bleeding. I remember leaving work with my sister, rushing to the ER and spending all afternoon and all night, to be told that I may not carry this baby past the first trimester. There was no heartbeat. There was the waiting game to see if a heartbeat would ever show. On another occasion, I went to the ER in my hometown, for them to tell me the same thing.

Finally, an ultrasound showed a heartbeat and we were in business. I was told I had to take it easy. That I did. In mid-March, I had the cervial cerclage placed and was placed on bedrest for a couple weeks. I went back to work and knew instantly that I was not going to be able to continue to work if I wanted to have this baby. After trying to work for two days, I went on disability. I was on bed rest with bathroom privileges for the remainder of my pregnancy. The only time I left the house was to go to the doctor and to have my ultrasounds done at the hospital. In April, there was noticeable shortening of my cervix. This continued to happen. In May, after one of my ultrasound appointments, I was put on strict bedrest in the hospital with NO bathroom privileges. Everything I had to do, had to be done while in the bed. I was away from my husband and away from my daughter. It had to be done for the safety of the pregnancy. I was given Steroid shots for the maturation of the baby's lungs. Dear mother of God, how those shots hurt. I cried each time I got them. Thank God, you only get two. Trust me that was quite enough. On Thursday June 5th at 3:00 am, my water broke, better known as Premature Rupture Of Membranes (PROM). Now there was cause for concern regarding infection. I was put on IV and given antibiotics to fight off possible infection. The next morning I was feeling down because I was worried about the continuous leaking of fluid. Worried if my baby was going to be ok. I cried and I prayed and cried and prayed. I fought to get my spirits up. But I managed to do so. Later on in the day, around 4 something, I started to feel pain. I didn't know what it was. I wasn't sure if it was contractions because the nurse said nothing was registering on the monitor. Everyone thought I was crazy. Hell, my husband did too. I knew I was feeling something and I knew the only person who would believe me was my own doctor. I made them call him and he came running. He ordered them to prep me for emergency c-section. In less than an hour, when my doctor arrived, and he checked me I was already 7 cm dialated. The mad rush began to hurry and get my baby delivered. By no means was it an easy delivery either. The surgery was difficult for me and for the doctors. But Jaeden made his debut into the world on that Friday June 6, 2008 at 28 weeks gestation. I thank God, that my husband was able to fight through Friday evening traffic and make it in time to support me and to see his son arrive. What a blessing!!! I thank my mother-in-law for being at the hospital, I thank my sister and my daughter. I thank my doctor for believing me and for acting so quickly. He said he ran five red lights. Hope you didn't get any tickets. I will end this by saying my son is truly a miracle child. It was later determined when my placenta was tested, that I suffered Placenta Abruptio. If my doctor had not believed me and he did not work as fast as he did, there would have been a different story to tell. Boy am I grateful, that my son was given a chance at life and that God did not find it robbery to bestow this awesome blessing upon my husband, and I and our family.

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