polbilly

I have had the scariest week that a mother could possibly face. my son was born march 8th and last Monday night i was holding jackson when all of a sudden white stuff came running from his nose and he quite breathing it seemed as a million hours before the squad got to my house and he was breathing again. the idiots that they are tryed to tell me that i had not burped him well enough and thats why it happened and they didnt want to take him to the hospital well that didnt sound right to me and we took him needless to say he was transferred by squad to akron childrens hospital which is rated top 10 in the usa. he stopped breathing again on the way there. to make a long story short we spent the entire last week in the hospital as it turns out he has apnea and periodic breathing which means that he actually forgets to breath for more than 20 seconds at a time. they did a sleep study on him and he stopped breathing 49 times in a 4 hour period. (and they said i just didnt burp him) so now my little man is on medication to mature his brain to remember to breath and on an apnea machine 24 hours a day to alert us if he stops breathing and doesnt remember to start again. he will be on this for at least 8 weeks. through all of this we are lucky first that i was holding him monday night when it happened and that we know whats going on now because the doctors said that we would have certantly woken up with a sids baby one morning.

keep an eye on all of those beautiful babies!

melissa

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Melissa
ectopic Feb 2005
miscarriage June 2005
Jackson James born March 8th 2006