Oliver George arrived early this morning at 12:15 after a 10 hour intense labor. He is 8lbs 6oz and 20.5 inches long. His heart rate never stopped, but he never really "stimulated" to outside world. By 12:25 he was admitted by ambulance to our local hospital and I followed 10 minutes behind in my own ambulance, midwives by my side. We aren't really sure what went wrong, something had been going on during pregnancy that they assured me no one would have caught-ob/gyn or midwife. In fact the neonatologist said it's awesome he was born "clean" of meds, as it's less for them to have to balance out.
What we know: upon admission his blood glucose was 0. His heart rate dropped briefly a few times, but never did he go without some oxygen being pumped through his body. His entire head and shoulders are one large dark purple bruise. They are treating this as an "injury" as that's how his body is responding. His kidneys are leaking blood, and slowly failing, his brain will swell due to the "injury" and we are expecting seizures, his heart and intestines are "insulted". He is not totally "brain dead", he is having reflexes, and responses to touch and sound. He had an EEG (looking for brain damage) and we will hear about the results tomorrow. The doc said another eeg in a week will show more of what's going on as each one is just a glimpse of one moment. Again, we were assured it was not his labor or birth...but there were several signs (I can't even think to type all out right now) that this had been going on in utero for a month or more.
Our prognosis: Worse case: he could die or be severely brain damaged. Best case: He could fully recover in a couple weeks. What his doctor honestly expects: something in between. She has never seen a baby with a blood glucose of 0 and those that she has seen that have been very low have almost always had "consequences". Surprisingly today we are okay with that. This is Olivers story whatever it is, and we will take him-"damaged" or not.
Please pray for a miracle-he needs it, we all do. I have to go pump milk, Im a couple hours late on the schedule, I've had two hours sleep since my nap before my water broke yesterday at 230pm. I've eaten, but I need to go take care of me so I can get him some "liquid gold" for when his intestines are not so insulted.
His labor and delivery...my labor, were truly awesome. I can't wait to share a birth story with you guys-it was amazing. Including five minutes of pushing where I literally screamed him out. At one point during labor I thought I would die and just flopped down in the tub and surrendered-and they all just laughed at my release. It was really intimate and sweet.
Thanks in advance for the prayers for my very sick little boy, I can't tell you what it means to me to know that God's door is being knocked down over Oliver George
I'll update when I can ladies.
~~~~~~~~Update below:
Friday afternoon: I cannot tell you the response that my baby has made in the couple days since birth. The thousands of prayers lifting him to God, and the thoughts of light and healing and hope have given us so much progress. He will live and claim great victory in that. They say that he will have some kind of permanent damage from the "injury" to his brain-the lack of oxygen and sugar. They think the cord that was so loose at birth that we couldn't believe could have been the issue, was actually strangling him in utero for a couple weeks prior to birth. My labor and delivery actually manipulated his body in a way that it loosened his cord. But the stress before hand drained him of his blood sugars, and taxed his body very very hard, most importantly his brain. How badly his brain is injured will tell us how much he will recover. It's all about what Oliver's "normal" is and getting him to that normal. We will be in NICU at least one more week. I have started up a blog site, with my birth story...and will over the next few days get things to current time.
We still need a miracle. We still need recovery. We see so much hope: he sucks a paci. His ventilator is coming out today in an hour from now. His kidneys have not fully shut down and he has only had very very small siezures and only a couple of them. Please I beg of you, do not stop praying and thinking of our little boy-it means the world to us! And-he also has three older brothers that are affected by this too. This is their baby too, and it hurts them too, and it's so hard for me to try to be there for everyone and have everyone feel loved and okay.
Our webpage is www.ourstorystartshere.blogspot.com Please pass it on and I THANK YOU ALL WITH ALL MY HEART!!!!
What we know: upon admission his blood glucose was 0. His heart rate dropped briefly a few times, but never did he go without some oxygen being pumped through his body. His entire head and shoulders are one large dark purple bruise. They are treating this as an "injury" as that's how his body is responding. His kidneys are leaking blood, and slowly failing, his brain will swell due to the "injury" and we are expecting seizures, his heart and intestines are "insulted". He is not totally "brain dead", he is having reflexes, and responses to touch and sound. He had an EEG (looking for brain damage) and we will hear about the results tomorrow. The doc said another eeg in a week will show more of what's going on as each one is just a glimpse of one moment. Again, we were assured it was not his labor or birth...but there were several signs (I can't even think to type all out right now) that this had been going on in utero for a month or more.
Our prognosis: Worse case: he could die or be severely brain damaged. Best case: He could fully recover in a couple weeks. What his doctor honestly expects: something in between. She has never seen a baby with a blood glucose of 0 and those that she has seen that have been very low have almost always had "consequences". Surprisingly today we are okay with that. This is Olivers story whatever it is, and we will take him-"damaged" or not.
Please pray for a miracle-he needs it, we all do. I have to go pump milk, Im a couple hours late on the schedule, I've had two hours sleep since my nap before my water broke yesterday at 230pm. I've eaten, but I need to go take care of me so I can get him some "liquid gold" for when his intestines are not so insulted.
His labor and delivery...my labor, were truly awesome. I can't wait to share a birth story with you guys-it was amazing. Including five minutes of pushing where I literally screamed him out. At one point during labor I thought I would die and just flopped down in the tub and surrendered-and they all just laughed at my release. It was really intimate and sweet.
Thanks in advance for the prayers for my very sick little boy, I can't tell you what it means to me to know that God's door is being knocked down over Oliver George
I'll update when I can ladies.~~~~~~~~Update below:
Friday afternoon: I cannot tell you the response that my baby has made in the couple days since birth. The thousands of prayers lifting him to God, and the thoughts of light and healing and hope have given us so much progress. He will live and claim great victory in that. They say that he will have some kind of permanent damage from the "injury" to his brain-the lack of oxygen and sugar. They think the cord that was so loose at birth that we couldn't believe could have been the issue, was actually strangling him in utero for a couple weeks prior to birth. My labor and delivery actually manipulated his body in a way that it loosened his cord. But the stress before hand drained him of his blood sugars, and taxed his body very very hard, most importantly his brain. How badly his brain is injured will tell us how much he will recover. It's all about what Oliver's "normal" is and getting him to that normal. We will be in NICU at least one more week. I have started up a blog site, with my birth story...and will over the next few days get things to current time.
We still need a miracle. We still need recovery. We see so much hope: he sucks a paci. His ventilator is coming out today in an hour from now. His kidneys have not fully shut down and he has only had very very small siezures and only a couple of them. Please I beg of you, do not stop praying and thinking of our little boy-it means the world to us! And-he also has three older brothers that are affected by this too. This is their baby too, and it hurts them too, and it's so hard for me to try to be there for everyone and have everyone feel loved and okay.
Our webpage is www.ourstorystartshere.blogspot.com Please pass it on and I THANK YOU ALL WITH ALL MY HEART!!!!
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