On October 15, 2009 at 2:38am a little angel Jaxon Thomas weighing 8lbs 2oz and 21 1/2" long was delivered to us! Jenny and I both could'nt be more happy!
The delivery was very difficult for both Jenny and Jaxon, Jen was pushing for about 2 1/2 hours before he came out with an extreme cone head. For the first few minutes he was not very responsive so he was immediately taken to the nursery for assesment, iv's, and monitoring. He was in the nursery for about 14 hours before he was stable enought for us to be able to hold him and bring him into the room. It was amazing for the first time to actually see and hold this little part of you and he was doing so well!
Later that night after trying to get him to eat and rest, he would just not go down to rest. About 24 hours after his birth, about 3am Jenny noticed that he was making some strange movements but we did not think anything about it. About a hour later Nick was holding him and noticed he started to twitch starting in the legs and moving its way up the body. We then called the nurse and she immediately took him back to the nursery and called the on call pediatric doctor. After the doctor assesed him he told us that Jaxon was having seizures possibly due to a hematoma putting pressure on his brain and will now have to be transfered to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Savannah at Memorial Hospital. He was transported by ambulance around 8:30am with Nick riding with him. Jenny was still waiting to be discharged and would'nt be until around 11am.
After arriving at Memorial Hospital in Savannah the NICU immediately started assesing Jaxon and administered medication to keep him from having anymore seizures. They kept him on this medication every 4 hours for the first day and a half he was here. At this time he was still having seizures every couple of hours but they were losing their intensity. The second day he was here they sent him to get a CT Scan followed by a MRI the third day and then an EEG (Electroencephalogram) Test on Monday. The initial CT Scan results just showed a hematoma on his head which was a relief. The next day he would get a MRI and we would hear the results on Monday by a pediatric doctor which was not so good news. The MRI showed areas of brain injury but could not determine the cause of it. We were both very upset hearing that news and only told a few of our close family members. Today (Tuesday) we actually got to talk to the Pediatric Neurologist. He answered alot of the questions that we had and explained more in depth the condition. There is injury called hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in both the right and left frontal lobes but are small areas. He said there is no way of telling how this will affect him in the future but may lead to some problems. There is also a chance since he is so young that whatever that area of the brain controled may move to a different area to compensate.
Despite all of this he is still a healthy baby and gaining weight by way of breast milk and a feeding tube until he wakes up enough to feed from a bottle. He has a little jaundice but is slowly going away. When visiting him today he is starting to become more active by moving all over the place, making noises, smiling, and trying to open his eyes.
We will try to continue and update as much as we can and will keep praying for him, please keep him in your prayers too. Hopefully he will be released to us soon. Also we don't want to be bombarded with phone calls as we are all exhausted and spend most of our day next to him in the NICU where we can't use our phones at all. Also we would like to keep this to this blog and not out on Facebook. We also want to thank everyone for thier support!
Love,
Nick, Jenny & Jaxon Uhri
