Update-15 months old

We are back from his appt. and everything went well. He is still my peanut. 22 lbs. 6oz and 31 inches. His development score showed him doing things at 18 month level! He got two shots- did pretty well. His right ear that has been red (not infected) for months now finally cleared up- very happy about not needing tubes!

Update

Ryan's appt. went well. We are to continue his antibiotics for pneumonia and just keep an eye on him. He hasn't had a fever since Sun. He does act like he doesn't feel the greatest. He has a runny nose and gets tired easily. I wish we would get some warm weather, so he can get over all this yuck! We are suppose to get 6 more inches of snow by tomorrow- grrr

1st seizure

Sat. started out a normal day and ended in the ER. We went to RJ's family for Easter lunch. Ryan ran around, played with the cousins, and ate an okay lunch. Then we went to my parents' house for Easter supper. Ryan was getting crabby and I thought it was because he was getting hungry. I put him in his highchair. RJ was sitting next to Ryan and feeding him supper. He acted like he was done eating and getting fussy. I gave him a spoon to keep him happy until we were done eating. 10 seconds later my sister said what is he doing? I looked over and he was having a grand mal seizure in his highchair! I took him out and started doing back thruts, not sure if he was choking or not. I laid him on the floor and he continue to seize. His eyes were rolled back and to the right, he was arching his back and his arms and legs were straight out and shaking. RJ called 911 and they came very quickly and took him to the hospital. Ryan has been healthy. They took blood, started an IV, put a bag on him to get urine and took an x-ray. He has pneumonia. He had a febrile seizure- he temp was only 99.3 under the arm at home after his seizure and 101.2 rectal at the hospital. He came home that night and is on antiboitics. RJ said it took 15 years off his life- he was pretty scared. I thankfully have seen seizures before, eventhough it was MY son having one, I kept it together until we got to the hospital- then I was in the bathroom- sick to my stomach. I took work off today and we have been sleeping together on the living room floor. He gets around the clock Tylenol and Motrin for 48 hours. He started coughing today and is stuffed up. He goes in for a Dr. appt. tomorrow. I am a paranoid mom now- watching him and feeling him to see if he is even a little warm. He even knows what to do with the thermometer- puts it under his arm- so very cute!

Birth Story

Here goes....Friday Feb. 17th- works sucks- I begged baby to come so I didn't have to work on Monday.
Saturday Feb. 18th- In the afternoon we were bored and decided to go to the mall. We walked around for hours. Got home and had supper. I fell asleep on the couch and woke up at 10pm to go to the bathroom. Barely got to the bathroom and my water broke. Ran and woke RJ up and told him get your bag packed! Stood up just in time and gushed all over the floor! I was only having mild contractions. Called the hospital and they told me to come in. Got to the hospital about 12:45 am- took my time getting there. I was dilated to 4 cm. They wanted to start pitocin, but I refused. At 4 am I started feeling nauseated and got my IV started. Woke RJ up to tell him I was getting my IV and he said "no thank you". He is such a dork! I was dilated to 6 cm. By 7:30 am I told RJ he better wake up because I am going to have a baby soon- he told me "just 30 minutes more". So, at 8am I was 10 cm and I woke RJ up again. I still had a little cervix to efface, so had to wait until 9am to push. 9am started to push. At 10:30am baby's head was delivered with a very tight cord around neck. Clamped the cord and I pushed with all I had and out came a baby boy at 10:32am. He was pale and not breathing right away. His apgar was 6 at 1 minute and 9 at 5 minutes. He weighed 7lbs. 10oz and was 20 inches long. We named him Ryan Richard. I had a natural delivery and was proud that I did it! Ryan had a large bruise on his head, but it went away by the next day. I can't imagine a day without him!