It's about time!

4/21/07


So, I am actually writing this on 4/27/07.... but oh well.... I just wanted to update everyone and let ya'll know that he is home! Here's some pics.


Jimi weighed 8lbs 3.5oz & 20" long when he came home last saturday. He had his check up the following Monday & he had gained 4.5oz making him 8lbs 8oz. Today he had another appt and he weighed in at 9lbs 0.5oz & 20 3/8" long. He's growing so freakin fast!


Mariah absolutely loves having Jimi home and she has been the biggest best helper ever! I caould not be more happy. I have both of my babies home now & I can't even explain how great it is to be a mother of two! I am seriously very blessed & oh so greatful.


Also, to Thomas, when your read this I just want to tell you how much I love you and appreciate everything you have done for me. You are forever the only one for me & I am so in love with you! God chose us to go through what we went through because he's knows we were & are strong enough to handle it, together! Not a lot of people could go through what we did and still be sane afterwards! But together we held on & now he's happy, healthy & home! Thank you for being strong when I wasn't & helping me through day by day!

4/18/07

Hi to all, I just heard that Jimi might be able to come home as early as this weekend. So Thomas and I have a lot to do before he comes home. We have to learn how to use the Apnea monitor he will be sent home on and what to do when it alarms. Also we have carseat safety, learning how to give him his meds and then an infant CPR class on Saturday.

I am so excited. Not only to have my family home but also to have a clean house! and a clean car too! oh yea and clean laundry!!! You know since I'll have time to do all that stuff now...

Anyways, I thank everyone for all your love & support! Love ya!

Hangin' in There

4/4/07

Hi guys, well we're all still doing alright. MariaH's been spendin' a little more time at home but now some babies at the NICU are coming down with some kind of stomach flu so no one except for the parents are allowed in, including MariaH. She doesn't really like it but hopefully it will only be a little longer before Jimi is home & then she can see him everyday. My sister, NevaeH still hasn't even met Jimi yet. No one under 12 can go in so she has only ever seen Jimi through pictures.

Baby Jimi had a blood transfusion yesterday. We are hoping that will help a lot with his Apnea spells. They also might take him off the Zantac & Reglan and start Prilosec. I don't understand why we didn't just start off with Prilosec since it's stronger and has less side effects. Plus one side effect of Zantac is shortness of breath. Why they would give medicine that causes shortness of breath to a preemie who already has breathing problems is beyond me. Anyway, hopefully the two things will stop those annoying spells. We are hoping that this transfusion in the answer to our all of our prayers. We'll just have to wait & see!


MariaH-Lee so proud to be a big sister!

I think he looks a little like me in this picture. Cutie!

He's such a little porker - he really is a "Gonzales!"

Bumps, Bumps & More Bumps

4/2/07

Hi all, Lil Jimi is still at OHSU. Another weekend came & gone. The doc's started him on yet another Reflux med on Saturday along with the Zantac. From what I have seen, it seems like it is making his Apnea spells worse. I am currently waiting on his doctor to call me & explain to me what the plans are now. Yesterday while I was feeding him he really had no interest in eating even though it had been four hours since his last feeding. He kept having spell after spell while he was trying to eat, so I stopped feeding him at 40ccs. His normal feed is 60ccs plus. I burped him & burped him, still he continued to spell. I rubbed his tummy a little bit and then stood and bounced while burping him - he let out a huge burp that seemed like it would have woke every baby in the NICU! After that he was fine & fell asleep. I wasn't about to try and feed him anymore.

When I called this morning his nurse said he has still continued to spell pretty often and that she was going to put his canula back on with just a little air flow to help him out. Now for a third time he is going to have work himself back off that again. We are so confused. We just want him to be healthy so he can come home & we can all be together like a family should be.