Proud Parent Share: I wanted to share my sons journey with you and your page because I love seeing everyone elses stories:) I began labor at 33 weeks and spent a lot of time in the hospital so that they could stop labor and monitor me. Finally my labor had seemed to stop, but much to my surprise, I woke up to my water breaking on April Fools day (April 1st). At only 35 weeks, Jayce made his surprise appearance at 6:31 pm. For being over a month early, my little man was 6 pounds and 12.5 ounces and was 20 inches long Unfortunately I was only able to hold my son for a couple minutes until the doctors whisked him away. At this time it was apparent that Jayce was having issues with his breathing. He was put on oxygen and then the decision was made to have him transferred two hours away, to a hospital with a NICU with better capabilities to monitor him and find out what was going on. Hours after I gave birth to him my doctor discharged me so that I could make the two hour drive to be with my son. I was miserable and in pain, but the physical pain was nothing compared to the emotional pain that I suffered, knowing my sons health could be at risk. Nothing could have prepared me for what came next; we learned that my son had two congenital heart defects (he had two large holes in his heart) and would need open heart surgery. At this time Jayce was only a couple days old and required a ventilator to breathe, he was experiencing heart failure and the decision was made to ship him to C.S. Motts Childrens Hospital in Any Arbor via survival flight. Although his surgery wasnt supposed to take place until he was at least 6 months old it quickly became obvious that Jayce would not grow or even breathe on his own. On April 18th, at only 2 weeks old, my son underwent open heart surgery. His heart defects were patched and although we hit some road bumps post op, my son is now a happy and healthy 8 month old My son is my number one hero. I watched him go through so much but even at two weeks old and following open heart surgery, my sweet little man would greet me with a smile. This was amazing, I felt like he wanted me to know he was going to be okay. To this day, he is the happiest and most smiley baby I have ever encountered. He rarely cries and pretty much spends his time loving life and all those in it
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:00:59 +0000
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