Update on Maddy

Well Maddy has been so much fun we did have a slight problem in the beginning with him gaining weight. The doctor says its called failure to thrive and I hate that saying but it is what it is. He is doing much better now and he is looking much better. When he was at his worst he looked like a baby vulture with no feathers it was BAD. Now he is better he is all smiles and giggles. he is such a joy to mommy and I love him so much. Its kinda funny how you can love 2 boys the same and know one for a longer time then the other. I am taking some medication to help with the breast feeding and that is going good too. He is sleeping through the night already and holding his head up almost on his own but trying very hard. hes not quite sure about tummy time but we are working on it.

Mommy and Daddy

Well since I haven't blogged in a while while i was gone it was mommy's 24th birthday and Mommy and Daddy's 6th year wedding anniversary oh how the time fly's. Jimmy and i are doing great better then we ever have and I feel like I say that all the time but I think all we are doing is getting better as time goes by. Jimmy's job is going great and I am looking forward to working a little side job after the first of the year. Just a few days a week so the kids don't have to go to daycare. We are trying to find the time to go to the gym and get in better shape, and other then that the kids keep us very busy I am not sure if we even get time with each other very often, but its worth it.

Update on Xander

Since it has been so long since i have blogged for everyone I am just going to split it up and do an update on everyone separately. Xander is getting so big and so testy. He has the funniest personality and he is so fun to be with. He loves being a big brother and he is so sweet with maddy. One day Jimmy had come downstairs to get something and Xander had taken maddy out of his swing and was carrying him around the living room. He is so funny and loves to be laughed at we know that he will be the class clown when he gets older. He loves to tickle everyone and make funny faces at you. He does have quite a few words that he says like hi, boat, dog , mommy, daddy, bye bye, bath, bite,more,and the list goes on. The other night about 2 weeks ago he was walking across the living room and Zigen saw something that he thought was food and darted in front of him knocking him over. As Xander fell he landed right on the base of the ottoman and cut his eyebrow open in a perfect T shape. So after a midnight run to the Instacare and some glue and screaming later he was all bandaged up.

Before the glue

After the Glue

Other then that everything else with Xander is great he loves his baths, he loves Jimmy and he loves his family. We wouldn't trade him for anything.

Halloween

So we went to grandma Edeen for Halloween pumpkin carving and dinner. Uncle Jason brought the saw and got stuck carving everyone elses pumpkins. He did Jimmys Mommys and uncle Don's. Xander helped b getting into eveything and running around and Maddy helped by sleeping the entire time. Xander and Daddy rode on cousin Colbys scooter and everyone had fun. On halloween night we went trick or treating but it started to rain so we came home early.

Pictures on the way home

Pictures of Maddox

The Miracle of Maddox Thomas Edward Allen

I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to post all of this. For all of you that do not know the whole story here it is. I went in to the hospital on Monday for an induction because they were worried about my fluid levels and also about the hypertension, and everything went well for a while. The epidural didn't even really hurt my contractions were doing well and everything was moving. The resident came in about 11:30 and checked to see if she could break my water to help thing along faster and when she went to pop it she said that his head moved up a little so she wanted to wait to make sure that the cord would not present first. They waited until 1:30 and they broke my water ans things went from there. As things went on I noticed that his heart rate was dropping with every contraction and I felt the contraction before it showed on the monitor so I call me nurse. She came in and said that things still looked good but they wanted to put an internal contraction monitor in for more accuracy and when she check another nurse came to help. While checking she looked up and told the nurse that she had a hand full of cord and the other nurse ran and pushed a call button on the wall. I asked what that ment and she said that it could mean a C-section I then told her that I really did not want one of those and I asked if they could just push it back in and she told me that I was not dilated enough. Then She jumped on my bed 12 other people ran in my room and before Jimmy really even realized what was going on I was being run down the hallway. On the way they ran me into a wall and then got me on the table asked if i could feel anything I said No and I guess when Jimmy walked in I was already open and they were trying to take the baby out. I started to feel things and so they gave me some morphine and I heard him cry and then I was out. I guess I slept for about 45 min and when I woke up they were stitching me up. I did however say to my doctor " Dr. Epstein since you are already there and I am open there is some excess fat do you think that you could just suck some out and help me out a little?" He then told me that he was ignoring me and to go back to sleep. After everything was over I asked to see the baby and the answer changed from he will be up in your room shortly to he will be staying in the NICU all week. I did go and see him Monday night the nures called me a freak of nature because about an hour after I was taken to maternity I was in the NICU with him and I went every day at least 3 times. We heard about the pneumothorax on Monday and we were just waiting for him to heal and they said that everything should only take a few days so we waited. When I was with him on Tuesday he was fine and I left because i had a visitor upstairs and I guess when I put him down he started to cry and would not stop and that made the pneumo worse. By Wednesday night he had a head box for oxygen and a chest tube in. Because the pneumo had gotten bigger it allowed some air to get out and make an air pocket between his lung and chest wall, because of that he could not fully expand his lungs and all the avioli in his lungs collapsed. After a short time he was placed on a oscillating ventilator and a PICC line was inserted because of all the problems they had with his veins. They started having a hard time getting blood from him so they did also put in an ART line. We were told by the neonatologist and the pediatrician to stay optimistic but they did not know if he was going to make it or if he did how long it would take him to fully recover. He all the sudden started to slowly get better and after many chest x-rays the chest tube was pulled on Saturday and after that everything just picked up from there. The Vent was pulled on Sunday and aswell as the ART line, and the PICC was pulled on Monday and from there it went all the way up. On Tuesday he started taking everything by mouth and breast feeding well and we got the call on that he could come home on Thursday. He came home Thursday and everything has gone really well. We will keep everyone up dated on everything but things have gone well. We did let Xander hold him and he loves him, he has kissed him like every 5 min and tried to share everything with him. We are so proud of our boys and we think everything will be great.