July, 2004 ~~My First Days...
Konnor was born by emergency C-section at 6:55 pm on July 5th, 2004. Problems had come up during delivery and Konnor's heart rate kept dropping. When he was born I was so happy that it was over, I finally had my little boy and he was okay.
The next morning when the nurse came in to do her rounds, he looked pale and was breathing very shallow. They rushed him off to the nursery and immediately put him under an oxygen tent. They started doing tests to try and figure out what was going on with him. After a very long day and night he wasn't improving so they decided to transport him to OHSU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I was unable to be transported with him, so I had to say goodbye not knowing what was going to happen next.
The next time I saw him he was hooked up to all these machines surrounded by the tiniest babies I had ever seen. Being born at 8lbs. 10 oz, he looked like a moose compared to the rest of the babies in the NICU. His blood oxygen level was starting to get better, but they were still unable to tell us why this was all happening.
July 9th- My 28th birthday, all I wanted was to be able to take my baby home. Konnor's oxygen levels were finally getting stabilized, but now he wasn't eating enough.... They ended up having to give him a feeding tube, by the next afternoon he was eating enough on his own. We were told if he kept up with this eating schedule we should be able to take him home the next day.
I had never been so excited headed to the hospital the next morning only to arrive and have a new doctor tell us that something else was wrong. His kidney was not functioning right and his Creatinine levels were dangerously high. The doctors were still unable to tell us why this was all happening to our baby.
July 14th~~ Everything had finally stabilized, after 7 days in the NICU we were finally able to go home with our little boy. We were so happy to finally have him home. Once again I remember thinking how glad I was to have that entire thing over with and how everything was going to be okay now.
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