A Tiny Update September 17, 2008

I have lot to write out. This is what I sent out via email this morning.

We had our baby boy on Monday, September 15 at 4:57pm. He came 24 days early (10 days earlier than our scheduled section). I woke up in horrible pain in my side and shoulder and started contracting. By the time I got to the hospital it was determined that I most likely had appendicitis and that he needed to come out. Kevin Clayton was born at 4:57pm weighing 6# 11ounces and was 19″ long. (He’s a big boy for a 36weeker!) He is named after his Grampy Kevin, who died in 1992.

He is currently in the special care nursery requiring oxygen. He does not appear to be sick, just early. The hope is that he will start weaning off the oxygen today and hopefully go home soon. We are all anxious to hold him and love him (and you know me! I want to nurse him!) All prayers and positive thoughts are greatly appreciated.

The general surgeon came in to talk to me a bit ago. The pathology on my appendix is not back, but it was enlarged and the tip looked “thickened” which he said is generally a sign of early appendicitis. He thinks that my body was just sensitive and that being pregnant made everything more agitated. Kevin’s heartrate was in the 180s when we got to the hospital, so he was a bit distressed as well. The surgeon thinks that we absolutely made the right decision and thinks that we saved his life and mine.