Boston Update

Well the last week has been crazy! It has been the longest, emotional, and stressful week I have had in a long time. Let me just start from the beginning. Sorry these pictures are out of order, they are all kinda backwards to how the events happened.
Last Sunday was Boston's baby blessing. We had SO many people at our house. We had ALL of my family, and their kids over. We also had ALL of Brian's family over too. We loved having everyone. Sunday I started noticing that Boston was acting different. He was sleeping a lot(like for 7 hours at a time) Which is every parents dream, but not normal for my baby. He also did not want to eat. Which is odd, because he usually is a really good eater.
Then all my family left on Sunday and Brian was leaving the next morning to go on a business trip till Friday. Monday morning came around and Boston was really fussy and crying a lot. I took his temperature and it was 100.7 so I decided to take him into the doctor. What made me worried was because when he was born they said if he ever had a temperature over 100.4 to get him in to the doctor. Luckily I was able to get in right away and the doctor could see him.
I get to the doctor and he realizes that something is not right with him. He said that in a child this small with a temp like that he would usually admit them into the hospital and they would have to do a spinal tap on him. But first they were going to check his blood to see if anything fishy was going on. That was the first of many pokes that were going to come this last week.
To make a long story short he was admitted to the hospital Monday night. They had to do a spinal tap on him, catheter twice, IVs, blood work, and keep him isolated. They weren't sure what was wrong but they had an idea that it was bad.
The blood work came back and he had a strep pneumonia virus aggressively growing in his blood. He said that I absolutely did the right thing and if I would have waited another day he would have been with a 103 temp and in the ICU for weeks. They then told me he would have to have a picc line( an IV they have to surgically put in that runs up your arm into your chest). After an hour of trying they could not get the line in and we had to figure out another option for him to get his medicine.
He was released on Thursday after noon, but he had to leave with an IV in his hand and a nurse had to come to my house everyday and give him his medicine.

I am so glad that I listened to my "mothering instinct" and the spirit and took this little boy in. If I would have waited one more day it could of been so much worse. My doctor told me this happens to 1 in 100 children that they have something like that growing in his blood. Well.. I guess he won the lottery cause he was the 1 child.

Here is the little guy first day back with his IV in his arm

Madison and Kayla the day he was blessed

Me, Brian, and mini Brian

This was just all the kids that were at our house. That doesn't even include their parents

Grammy

Here is the little guy at the hospital. Brian was gone the whole time until Thursday afternoon. I kept updating him and sending him pictures. I think that was the hardest thing to handle all of this by myself. Luckily I had good friends that came and stayed with me and Brian's parents.

Our little Dude

Well the last 6 weeks have been quite a learning experience!! Boston is getting bigger and bigger each day. He is sleeping better at night and is usually a pretty good baby. It has been an adjustment going from working full time, to staying home and taking care of this little one. Especially when he sleeps most of the day! It has been fun though and each day brings something new. Here are just a few pictures...

We tried not taking him out the first couple of weeks so he wouldn't get sick. But then Brian ended up getting him sick at our house, so I was like "Whatever! We are taking him out." I think that was the worst part the 1st couple of weeks(and breastfeeding). Once we have been able to him out it has been a lot better.

Our first day at church..

Boston is here!

Boston is here! He was born March 14th at 7:21 am. He was 7 lbs 4 oz and 21in long. He came a week early. We were at his grandparents eating dinner and my back started to hurt. I just thought that it was cause I was sitting too long. Then I went home and was in the bathroom and my water broke. I wasn't sure that was what it was at first cause I was expecting a lot more. So I called my doctor and he was like, yup you better get to the hospital. We hopped in the car and I was admitted into labor and delivery. This was at about 8 pm the night before. I got the epideral and they put me on pottasim(?) but the epideral only worked on half of my body so I was dillated to a 10 and could feel everything on my left side. Then I got really sick from all the medication and was throwing up all night, during labor, when I was pushing, when they handed him to me- It was horrible! WHen they told me to start pushing I was allready so exhausted from being sick and on top of that I was pushing for 3 hours. Boston was stuck under my pubic bone and would not come out. FINALLY they got the doctor in there and he got the suction thingy and they pulled him out. All I can say is that it was the most physically demanding thing I had ever done. I was so exhausted afterward all I wanted to do is sleep. Now Boston is 3 1/2 weeks old and is doing good. He is getting bigger and bigger every day. Sad to say Our camera was STOLEN at the hospital.. so all of our pictures are gone!! These are from our phones. I will post more as we get them

Christmas and Lately

We went down to Mesa with my family for Christmas. It was so fun to see everyone and the weather was beautiful! This is me at 31 weeks. I am getting bigger and bigger by the week! It is crazy how fast time goes. I haven't even gotten his room ready, but I think in the next 9 weeks we will have everything done for sure. We still haven't decided really on a name, once we pick one we like another one too!

Christmas Pictures

Here are some pictures getting ready for Christmas. This year we decided to just use this little fake tree. Don't worry our Kitty has already knocked it down once.

We decided to go around town to take our Christmas pictures. Brian's cousin Cody just used our camera and we just took a bunch of random pictures. It is still weird getting used to my pregnant body. It still doesn't feel like me, but I still have 15 more weeks, so I guess I will just be getting bigger from here. There are many more pictures, but I am still editing some of them, so this is what I have so far....

25 weeks..

This is probably our Christmas card this year..

Emotional..

Is it just because I'm pregnant or have I always been this emotional? Yesterday was 6 years since my dad has passed away. Time goes by so fast and it really feels like yesterday too. Most of the time I'm fine and life is normal. Then a memory hits or a song comes on or I see something that reminds me of him and I can't stop myself from crying. I'm so grateful for my family and friends that have helped me out in the last 6 years. I know that through my experiences in life it will help me be there for other people who need just as much as I did. Yesterday I was thinking how unfair it was that I only had 18 short years with him, especially having a baby and growing up. I know that he would be proud of me and is there for me more than I know. Love ya dad.

22 weeks

I'm now at 22 weeks and am feeling great! My little boy is growing everyday. I can now feel his kicks more strong. Every time he kicks I hurry and try to grab Brian so he can feel, he has only felt them a couple of times. I feel so lucky to have had such an easy pregnancy so far. I am crossing my fingers that it will be this easy the whole time. We still haven't figured out a name yet. We always sit down and say, OK what should this baby's name be! We are stuck between 3 names that we like, Boston -Peyton- and Brody. I can't decide because I like them all! I will keep my growing belly posted!