Home Sweet Home

Thursday March 22nd was the day we got to bring our precious baby boy home! This was a very big day for him. He received his RSV shot and got circimsized before leaving the hospital. Once we got home we realized our yard had been decorated by my Aunt Kenny.After taking pictures, we then let our fur babies get acquainted with Wyatt. This went much better than I expected. Once we were all unpacked we loaded Wyatt up in the stroller and went on a walk around the neighborhood. We took a little breather at the pond (same place where Ryan proposed) then we continued around the big block. Wyatt seemed to enjoy his first time being outdoors :) Can't wait for more family outings!

Men of the house

Nicu stay

Having a child in the nicu is the most difficult thing I have faced so far in my life. Wyatt was on oxygen for 36hrs, and had an IV for nutrition initially. He also had a NG tube (feeding tube) this was the next path for nutrition until he could suck a bottle. The days all ran together for me but I will try my best to do a recap. Since Wyatt was born 6 weeks early he didn't possess the needed suck swallow reflex. In order for him to come home he had to consistently drink 40cc from a bottle at every feeding. Whatever milk he didn't drink would be placed down his feeding tube. We had many ups and downs. From days where he had to be poked to start new iv's, to days where he drank large amounts of milk to the next day where he didn't drink much at all. Even on the hard days we kept positive setting reachable goals for him. It started out praying he would just drink 15cc, then he drank 20 I think, then the next day we set a 30 cc goal and he drank 40. This kept our spirits up. The first diaper I changed ended up terrible....Wyatt ended up peeing all over is daddy! On march 22nd Wyatt got discharged after passing his car seat challenge and hearing test! This day was an answer to our prayers.

Suprise at 34 weeks

March 2nd started out like any other work day. I received report from the night nurse, was assigned a student to follow me for the day, then I took the student to all the patient rooms to introduce ourselves and begin the day. Around 8 am I decided to sit down and chart. I suddenly felt a gush of fluid, so I ran to the restroom. I soon began to panic due to the large amount of blood I saw. The wonderful nurses I work with rushed me to the labor and delivery floor and I waited to be checked out. At this point I didn't know what to expect. The nurse attached a fetal monitor and soon told me I was having contractions every 3 minutes, this soon changed to every 1 minute. The nurses then started talking about a c-section at noon, but in my overwhelmed state I honestly thought they would stabilize me and send me home on bedrest. Once the doctor on call came to see me things started to sink in. I found out I had a placenta abruption causing the bleeding and that a c-section may be the safest option. The doctor said we would continue to monitor the baby and go from there. If he tolerated the labor then I could deliver normally. At noon they rolled in with the epidural. Unfortunately it was not in the correct location and did not numb me competely, but we didn't realize this until I was 8-10cm dilated. The anesthesiologist came in to restart another epidural but the nurse checked me and said I was 10cm dilated and I was feeling the intense need to push. The anesthesiologist then pushed meds through the epidural and told me to lay on my left side. About 10min later The doctor came in and at 9:15 pm Wyatt Lane Jolly was born! The nicu team was in the room, and took him immediatley. I did not get to hold him and didn't even see his face until the next day.