This blog is pretty tragic so please don't feel obligated to read...
So I've pretty well faded away from the temp over the past year or so. Was pretty enthusiastic about Wii/PSP modding but it got a tad old... Then when we found out my wife was pregnant things came into perspective and I really started focusing my energy on my family. A month and a half later my brother and his wife found out they were pregnant also. Our family was poised to have two additions within two months of each other.
My son was born on April 27th, 2011 by emergency C-section. We had gone in for a normal check-up that morning and found his heartbeat to be erratic. About 6 hours later he was in a helicopter headed downstate to the university hospital. We were only a week and a half from the due date so he wasn't born prematurely. Supraventricular Tachycardia or SVT is what he was diagnosed with. It basically means that his heart can go into a state where it beats consistently at well over 200 beats per minute. We spent nearly a week with him at the hospital before he was able to be released. I'm happy to say that he's a beautiful, healthy boy and we're managing his condition with a simple medication. He's had no episodes since we've left the hospital.
On June 13th at around 12:30am I received a phone call from my mother. I assumed when I looked at the caller ID that it was to tell me that my brother's wife had gone into labor. Sadly, it was to let me know that they lost the baby... He was due on June 17th. He hadn't been moving around much throughout the day so they went to the emergency room where they were unable to find a heartbeat. Rather than operate to remove him the doctors recommended that labor be induced... He was born in the early hours of June 14th but there wasn't any celebration to be had... The umbilical cord had wrapped around his neck twice...
Needless to say, my entire family is devastated right now. The funeral is tomorrow. I just don't understand how both pregnancies can be perfect up until the last week... Neither had any issues at all leading up to the births. As rough as it was being in the hospital with my son for that week, we were so incredibly lucky. I have no idea how my brother and his wife are getting by right now... My wife and I shaken up knowing what could have happened those seven weeks ago and are unsure of what seeing our son might leave them feeling.
Please keep my family in your thoughts tomorrow...
So I've pretty well faded away from the temp over the past year or so. Was pretty enthusiastic about Wii/PSP modding but it got a tad old... Then when we found out my wife was pregnant things came into perspective and I really started focusing my energy on my family. A month and a half later my brother and his wife found out they were pregnant also. Our family was poised to have two additions within two months of each other.
My son was born on April 27th, 2011 by emergency C-section. We had gone in for a normal check-up that morning and found his heartbeat to be erratic. About 6 hours later he was in a helicopter headed downstate to the university hospital. We were only a week and a half from the due date so he wasn't born prematurely. Supraventricular Tachycardia or SVT is what he was diagnosed with. It basically means that his heart can go into a state where it beats consistently at well over 200 beats per minute. We spent nearly a week with him at the hospital before he was able to be released. I'm happy to say that he's a beautiful, healthy boy and we're managing his condition with a simple medication. He's had no episodes since we've left the hospital.
On June 13th at around 12:30am I received a phone call from my mother. I assumed when I looked at the caller ID that it was to tell me that my brother's wife had gone into labor. Sadly, it was to let me know that they lost the baby... He was due on June 17th. He hadn't been moving around much throughout the day so they went to the emergency room where they were unable to find a heartbeat. Rather than operate to remove him the doctors recommended that labor be induced... He was born in the early hours of June 14th but there wasn't any celebration to be had... The umbilical cord had wrapped around his neck twice...
Needless to say, my entire family is devastated right now. The funeral is tomorrow. I just don't understand how both pregnancies can be perfect up until the last week... Neither had any issues at all leading up to the births. As rough as it was being in the hospital with my son for that week, we were so incredibly lucky. I have no idea how my brother and his wife are getting by right now... My wife and I shaken up knowing what could have happened those seven weeks ago and are unsure of what seeing our son might leave them feeling.
Please keep my family in your thoughts tomorrow...
