Corbin James finally arrived on Friday March 19th @ 10.35pm. Weighing 8 lbs. 4 oz. and 21" long. Friday morning my water broke, I wasn't completely sure it was my water because I was having absolutely NO contractions. So, I called the Dr. office to ask and they told me come in so they could double check. The only problem was I had let my mom borrow my van and David had his truck instead of his work van that morning. Uggg....So, I had my sister take me to the office :) I had my mother in law pick up the girls because I figured if it was my water then would make me stay at the hospital. Well, they confirmed it was my water and then said I could go home and wait it out. :) I went home ate lunch, look a nap and then started watching Rachael Ray :) At about 3.30pm my contractions started and quickly became strong but where still 6 minutes or so apart. David was still at work so I ended up calling him and having him come home. It was really had being at home alone was so nerve racking!! We finally headed to the hospital and got there at about 6.45pm and he was born about 4 hours later. He did great the first 5 hours or so after birth! BUT (and that's a huge BUT!!!) at about 3am the nurses came in to wake me up and tell me he had turned blue 2 different times. They had to give him oxygen both times. They took him down to the NICU because they did not know what was wrong. Thankfully I had him in the nursery with the nurses so they where able to see this happen!! It was a VERY scary time for us! David was already at home sleeping and he had turned down all the phones so no one would wake him up in the morning. It took me about 30 minutes to get a hold of him. Thankfully he finally thought he heard something and went to check. So, the rest of that night was really long for us!! After blood tests and cultures and chest x-rays. The NICU Dr. came in at around 8 am or so and told us he has pneumonia and it's not life threatening. That was the best news we could have ever heard!! He told us he'd have to be on anti biotic for at least 5 days. We had to wait for the blood culture results to know for sure the severity of the pneumonia. Over the weekend they also did a spinal tap on the poor little guy to rule out meningitis, it was negative.
So, I was discharged on Sunday evening and was able to stay in a "parent room" at the hospital. This is a room they provide, free of charge, to parents with children in the NICU. David had a really busy week of work. (Which has been slow since Christmas so he couldn't really turn it down) My sister Marissa ended up taking off of work for us and staying with the girls. We feel very blest to have her there to help us!! It was really hard for me being away from the girls and David for that long!! They came to visit of course but it's not the same. I was really glad I didn't have to go home without Corbin though, that would have extra hard to deal with!! Plus, I was nursing him so that would have made it difficult. The girls where not able to see him the first couple days. On Sunday they saw him for the first time but could not hold or even touch him. They where so happy to see him though!! :) We finally got to bring him home on Wednesday evening.
So, he is 2 weeks old today and is doing so well you wouldn't even know he was sick. :) I'm adjusting to much less sleep and the girls just LOVE their new "baby budder" as Lily says :)
