Jameson

I relized with all the craziness I did not post all the birth info about Jameson.

Jameson Tyler Christiansen
Born 05/10/2012 @2:47pm
7lbs 3oz and 20in long
Born thru c-section due to complications



He is now 2 weeks old and doing great! Acting as if nothing had happened. Doctor apt yesterday dr said he is surprised how great he is doing for what he went through. He said he was one sick little man the day he was born and he is glad that has changed now. Everything on his exam was normal and we will return in 2 weeks just to make sure he continues to be good. We were told to keep him home and away from lots of people so he does not get sick! fine by me last we want is for him to get sick! Here are some pictures taken today 2 weeks old.

Finally Came home!

Jameson finally got to come home on Sunday Morning. We were told Friday then the doctor decided to keep him and then we were told Saturday and again the doctor decided to keep him another day so when they called us Sunday morning early and told us he was being discharged I was so excited. After 2 days of getting my hopes up I did not even want to finish getting ready for the day I just wanted to go and get my little baby home. He is doing great!! Eating, sleeping and pooping just like a normal baby. I can't believe that on the 10th of May a miracle happened and my little man's life was saved so that he could be with us. I have so much graduate in my heart for all those that prayed and were thinking about our family during this time. I have such an amazing ward that not only thought of us in many ways were willing to bring us diner for a whole week so we could worry about spending time with Jameson in the hospital. I am thankful to a wonderful mother who watched Ashley time after time while I was in the hospital as well as when we went back and forth from the hospital and home. Also my brother in law Jay who also really helped us with Ashley while Jameson was still in the hospital. This whole experience has been an eye opener to life and love and support. I know my Heavenly Father loves me and keep me from falling apart too many times during this trial. For the most part I had peace and I know it was because of my Heavenly Father.


Ashley holding her brother for the first time.

Trying to be like his daddy with his Jimi
Hendrix t-shirt and doll daddy got for him!

Update on Jameson

Jameson has made big progress the last couple of days. He is completely breathing on his own and all the tubes have been removed except for his IV. He started to eat breast milk Monday night for the first time. They did an MRI on his brain but we have not gotten the results yet. We are hoping to meet with the doctor today. He is crying and talking and smiling and is a very happy little boy.

As I had said in the past post I got a cold sore and they forbid me from even going to see my son. Cold sore can cause a lot of problems. I woke up Sunday mother's day with the cold sore and went to go see him that morning and after that I was not to be even in the same room as him. Sunday night was a bad night. I cried more that night then I did any other time through the whole trial. My doctors got me lots of meds to get the cold sore to go away fast so I would be able to see Jameson. Monday was the first time we would be able to hold him so Tyler went and got to hold him with out me for the first time. So Monday was a hard day too. I got released from the hospital Monday afternoon and we went home with out Jameson. Really hard to leave him there even more hard knowing I had not seen him or talked to him in over a day. Monday night we decided to go to the hospital and see if I could wear a mask or have someone look at the cold sore and see if I would be able to see Jameson. The nurse came took at look at me and said yes you can come in and wear a mask and see your son. I started to cry. I had not seen him for over a day and it was really hard. I got to go and hold him for the very first time that night. I was a very happy mommy. I got to stay and feed him for the first time and hold him for about 1 hour before we had to go home. My heart felt so much better and we have been back to hold him and feed him several times since that night. The doctor said that if they can get him to start eating good then he will be able to go home. Doctor is predicting that by this weekend he will be home. I can not wait. I am so ready for him to be home with us and not be so far away. I will update more when more is available.

This was taken right after the breathing tube was removed and
they wanted him to stay on nose oxgyn for a couple of hours.

Day 4 and Ashley

Today  has been filled with many different emotons. I will start with how everything is going with Jameson. He did have another x-ray done on his belly to make sure things were still looking good and blood work done to check everything out. Both came back normal and he is doing great. Earlier this afternoon they removed a tube from his mouth that was helping him with bloating and gas. Tonight they removed the breathing tube from this mouth and his is finnally completely breathing on his own with no help!!!! They began the warming up process and will continue doing that until about 1am. Tyler at that time can go and hold him for the first time. Where the fustration and emotions come is I will not be able to hold him or see him tonight. I developed a cold sore on my lip which is contagis and therefor can not see or hold my son until it is scabbed over. So it has been a very hard day for me! I will really looking forward to holding him tonight but I am glad that Tyler will be able to and pass on the love from me. I am hoping this cold sore will heal quick and I will be able to hold him soon!

I will be released from the hospital tomorrow after the doctor comes to see me and takes the staples out. If my cold sore is scabbed by tomorrow then we will be nesting most likely with Jameson. If not then I will be sent home and Tyler will stay or just come back to visit. So we will see what tomorrow brings.

Ashley
She has been the best through all of this. My mom was in town to help take care of her and I don't know what we would have done with out her. Ashley has been great about mom and dad not being there. She still goes to bed and wakes up ok and she has not gotten upset at all. Tyler has made a point of going home everyday and has brought her to the hospital everyday to see me and her baby brother. The day after he was born was the first time she was able to see him. We took her to the NICU and she looked at him and looked at us and asked "is baby ok?" she was very concerned for him and just keep saying is baby ok over and over again. She just does not understand why she can't hold him. She will be a good big sister! I am very proud for these two wonderful kids to call me mom. Amazing how thinking about her and getting kisses from her makes life better.

Day 3 progess

Well Jameson is 3 days old and getting better every day. Like I have said before he was low on blood and was not breathing so he has had a lot of tests to make sure he is ok and know how to make him feel better. He has had 2 blood transfusions and a tube for breathing placed down his throat. The last blood given was yesterday morning and he has  not needed anything since then. All his blood results have gone normal which is great news. Since he needed so much blood to begin with it can cause brain damage from so many things and they only way to avoid it is to keep his temperature down. So poor guy has to be cold. We can not touch his body so he does not get too warm from our touch so we can only hold his hands and feet and that is it. He will stay cold until tomorrow night and then they will begin to slowly warm him up and get his temperature back to normal.  They also did an ultrasound on his heart to make sure everything was ok there and it came back normal. A EEG test was done on his brain since he was not breathing and they do not know for how long and if it caused any brain damage. The Test came back normal. Today they did x-rays on his stomach to make sure his intestines and stomach were ok and that also came back normal. On Monday or Tuesday after the warming him back up process they will being doing a MRI of his brain to make sure again that everything is ok and no structural damage was done. So far his is a fighter and every test they give him comes back normal. So we will wait and see how he does tomorrow night and see how the MRI comes back and go from there. If all is good and he starts to eat good mon or tues he will be treated as a normal baby and start to prepare for him to go home. I will again continue to update on his progress and if anything changes.



I am again so thankful to my Heavenly Father for all he has done to keep my little man safe. I am thankful for wonderful family and friends who have shown their love and concern for our family. Thankful to my wonderful mother who has been watching over Ashley and taken care of her so I can get my rest and heal and Tyler can be here with me. We don't know what we would do without her. She is the best mom and I am thankful to call her my mom. It is so wonderful to also have her here for mother's day. Happy mother's day to all the mother's out there and this mother's day means so much more to me this year. Thankful for my mom but even more so to be able to have 2 kids. To have Jameson here and getting well is the best mother's day gift I could ever ask for. Again Happy mother's day to all the wonderful mother's out there!

This was the day he was born and very white.

This was taken today. 3 days old laying on his cooling pad.

Jameson Tyler

I wanted to be able to keep family and friends updated on what was going on. So will try and keep this blog updated with new changes and things as they go! So here is the story and more detail about how our week has gone.

Thursday morning started the same as any other day. My mom was in town just in case I went into labor or if they decided to Induce since my blood pressure had been high. We decided to go walk around the mall in hopes to keeping the contractions coming and maybe make them get true labor started. I had been having contractions for a couple of days. As we got to mall the thought came to my head that Jameson had not really moved this morning. I thought well walking, most of the time gets him to move and Orange Juice. I stopped got some orange Juice and we began to walk around. After a hour of only feeling him move 1 time we decided it was time to go to the hospital. The  ride was a very long ride. I did have Tyler  and Jason give me a blessing before we went to the hospital to help calm me down and we able to get thru whatever was ahead of us.  The nurse got all the monitors up and running and we then heard his heart beat and what a wonderful sound. The nurse confirmed he was not moving and they ordered an ultrasound which was done very quickly. They did get him to move 1 time during the ultrasound but that was not enough and they were worried about his breathing. So within mins there were tons of people in our room and we were being prepped for a emergency c-section. Everything happened so quick that I did not have time to think about it or be too scared. Once the C-S began they had him out within mins. This became one of the scariest times in my life. Jameson was ghost white and was not breathing. All I could hear was the baby doctor saying "Coming on little man breath." I am thankful for prays and how much I was able to pray in a moment when it was needed the most. They did have to put a breathing tube in his mouth but they were able to get him breathing after that. They showed him to me and let me kiss his head and Tyler and the doctors were away to get him into the NICU. They got me put back together and into the recovery room. I had been dreading a c-section but at that moment I did not care whatever got him out safe. After a little while the baby doctor came down and explained how Jameson was doing. He was very very low on blood and for some reason was giving me his blood thru the cord and not taking the blood which I was giving him. There was no way to catch this ahead of time or of preventing what was going on before hand. They were worried about his heart and brain since his blood was so low and also since they don't know how long he was not breathing. Since being born his has had several blood transfusions. He is doing great and they are taking very good care of him here at the hospital. They have done tests on both this heart and brain and both have come back normal. Due to the blood transfusions they have to keep his body cool and therefore we can not hold him yet. I am looking forward to being able to hold my little man for the first time.
I on the other hand have had good moments and bad ones. The cut is from pretty much on hip to the other and it does get painful at times. I am resting and just trying to heal the best I can. I am so thankful to Banner Desert for they great doctors and nurses that have made this so much easier on us and truely been the best.
I am thankful to my heavenly father for giving me the promptings to come to the hospital when we did. Had we waited even until that night we could have lost our little man. I am thankful for the Pristhood that I as well as Jameson could have blessings to help us get through this hard time. I am thankful for a Husband who is the best help and keeps me calm and loves me.
I will continue to update on everything as things progress. I am so loved and have so much gratitude in my heart. Thanks to everyone for the love and support.