This was written by Brandon just a few short hours after Aidan was born on 8/30/05.
Well… a mere 5 minutes after I click send on the mail indicating everything was hunky dori, things took a turn. Lori started experiencing a lot of pain in her tummy. It turns out the liver was starting to distend, causing some serious discomfort. The baby’s heart rate started to fall off its normal baseline.
The doctor (Daniel Gavrila…a classic Italian accented soap opera doctor) decided it would no longer benefit the mom or the baby by continuing the pregnancy. SSOOOOOOO….
At 3:24 a.m. Aidan was born. 12″, 1 lb 8 oz of pure pink joy. He wasted no time in filling a diaper from both ends and doing his best to flail around so the nurses couldn’t get him wired up (IVs, temp probes, O2 sensors, feeding tubes, breathing tubes, ventilators etc….). The doctor indicated he was really strong for his gestational age, and had a lot of fight in him. We aren’t out of the woods yet, but he seems to have the courage to keep fighting.
He is too young to really determine who’s features he has with one exception… the kid has some HUGE hands for his size. Comes from his poppa. I have taken the liberty of attaching the first pics taken of the little man.
Lori is doing fine after the C-section. Drugged out and tired, but feeling much better in general. I will know more after she wakes up. Me? Dunno… too tired and drained from one hell of a roller coaster ride. What I can say, is that we are truly blessed to be parents. I love this little tadpole/alien-looking thing and can’t wait to see him start to survive on his own.
Wow…
What a ride.
The scary thing is that it is just starting.
Love to all
Brandon, Lori and Aidan (Biscuit)
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