Pictures of Jordan

April 8, 2012

I really wanted some naked pictures of Jordan, the cute newborn ones that they do. We attempted to take some ourselves but each time we ended up getting his little baby boy tid-bits - which isn't really appropriate to post. We ended up using the Nike box pictures with the little Easter egg football.

I wish I would've taken a better picture of the flower that we'd gotten from people, they were beautiful!

I love his curly hair in this picture! Drew had the same curly hair - so adorable. Too bad none of the girls got some body to their hair!

April 29, 2012

Happy 7th Birthday Alexis

Birthday Girl!

Because Jordan had to stay in the hospital longer than anticipated, we threw Alexis a "surprise" birthday party at Grandma and Grandpa Wadley's. Grandpa Rod took the kids out to eat and then took them over so she'd be surprised. However, she saw all the cars and figured out what was going on, but we at least tried. She's too smart for her own good. From what I understand, they all had a great time and she loved seeing everyone!

After we got home we gave her a gift since we hadn't taken it with us. She got some stuff to make a charm necklace and some clip on earrings. She really loved it!

Bringing Jordan Home

Another picture of my little man on his ventilator.

This is right before they took out his head IV. The one in his arm was looking pretty bad and the only area they could find was in his head. Needless to say he did not appreciate it being taken out.

Jordan getting ready to come home. They left all his monitors on until right before we left. 

Little Man stalled out because his head wasn't exactly in the right position for birth. Instead of the crown coming out first the back of his head came out first! I was trying to capture the cone head of the back of his head. It reminds me of the Egyptians for some reason. Jocelyn also had this head shape!

I love his curly hair that he has. Drew had curly hair as a new baby too!

We took him to Grandma and Grandpa Wadley's to pick up our munchkins and head home. All the kids were so excited to see him and to be able to hold him. (No kids allowed in the NICU during RSV season!) Jocelyn did not want to let him go when it was time to let someone else have a turn, she kept yelling "My baby, my baby". She literally grabbed his face and body and tried to pull him back to her. 

Grandma finally got a turn to hold little man too!

Poor Jordan, he thought life was going to be so pleasant, little did he know that little miss was going to own him!

Welcoming Jordan Tate

Before we realized that this was going to take far longer than anticipated.

There was a little party going on in the room. They all looked like walking zombies by the time we finally delivered.

Sunday April 1st I was having a lot of contractions that were rather painful, to the point that I had John take me to ShopKo to walk around because it was too cold outside. Even with all the contractions I was still at a three, but I was effacing some. Grandma Tobi didn't want to leave Sunday night until we checked one more time to see if I had dilated to a four. (At a four they keep you at the hospital, even if your labor stalls out.) I knew I wasn't at a four because the contractions hadn't been that hard during the afternoon but we checked anyway and guess what . . . I was at a four! So off to the hospital I went. I was not having regular contractions, but I was having contractions and I was at a four so they kept me. At about 8:00 Eric broke my water and I got my epidural. We figured he'd come flying out before midnight and he'd be stuck with an April Fools birthday. Once I hit a five I generally deliver within half an hour. I stalled out at an eight though and I was stuck there for nearly three hours. They finally gave me some pitocin to get things going and they got going. But Jordan didn't like it and they ended up having to put a scalp heart rate monitor on him THREE times. They stopped the pitocin so Jordan would calm down and he did. Thankfully the contractions kept going! I still couldn't sit up or roll off my right side without him reacting badly though. Finally, after a couple of pushes we had our little man at 3:27 am!

Jordan Tate

April 2, 2012

6 lb 5 oz

19.5 inches

I was only able to hold him for a few minutes before I gave him back to the nurses. He sounded like he had fluid in his lungs and guess what . . . he did! Poor little guy had to go up to the NICU.

They tried the CPAP machine first but he didn't do as well as they would have liked so they moved him to the ventilator.

Thankfully he only had to stay on that for a few hours, long enough for the surfactant they gave him to kick in. They thought he might have pneumonia so they started the antibiotics and he had to be on them for three days.

His third day he had to be under the bilirubin light to help with some jaundice. We didn't have to take the lights home with us, which was great. He also didn't have to come home with oxygen or anything else which was so nice. In total he was in the NICU for three days and had to have his bilirubin levels checked for five days.