He's here - 3 weeks early

Promised you all an update, and boy do I have one. Sunday afternoon, my water broke a out 3:10. We were at Stake Conference at the time. Luckily the biggest gushes came while we were in the car and at home. We came to the hospital at about 5 o'clock while our wonderful neighbors stayed with the boys until my mom could get here from Idaho. My labor progressed quite quickly, and the baby was born at 10:35 that night. It was a simple delivery, but it was 3 weeks early. Baby was 8 lbs 8 oz and 21 inches long.

After delivery he started having issues breathing. They couldn't get him to pink up and breathe really well. So they rushed him off to the special care nursery and he's been there ever since. He's having trouble breathing on his own and keeping his oxygen levels where they should be. It is honestly taking all his energy just to breathe. They had him on regular oxygen for a while but that wasn't enough for him so they put a CPAP on him. That's a contraption that goes around his face and is taped to his nose. It forces air down his nasal passage and into his lungs. He's been on it since this afternoon and we are anxiously awaiting morning when they will re-run all his tests and see if the CPAP is working. Little man hated wearing it so much he freaked out to the point of needing to be sedated. The plus side to this is that he is resting soundly and not having to work as hard to take a breath. The pediatrician feels confident he will pull out of it, we just don't know how long it will take. Right now it looks like when I get discharged tomorrow night the baby will not be coming home with me.

I just want to thank everyone for the texts, emails, calls, thoughts and prayers on our behalf. My family and rectangle family have been so great to take care of the boys without even a second thought. I'm holding up okay. I can tell you I lost it a little seeing him for the first time with the CPAP on. It really swelled up his nose and eye area and it just looks cumbersome and uncomfortable. And it really is hard to not be able to pick him up and hold him when he starts to fuss. I got to hold him this morning for a bit but Mike still hasn't been able to hold him. Mike and our neighbor were able to give him a blessing this morning and that went really well.

I don't have any pictures handy since I am borrowing this laptop from the hospital. But Mike updated his facebook pr0file and mine with the pictures we took this morning. So you can check them out over there if you'd like. I'll try to update a gain soon to keep you all in the loop with the progress of the baby. By the way, we decided to name him Emmett Grant.