A Happy Reunion!

Bridger is finally home! We are so excited to be ending these long past 2 weeks. But I thought I should start at the beginning and just give a breif synopse from where Jon left off! At Jordan Valley Hospital, where I delivered, I was able to hold Bridger for about 10 seconds...the best 10 seconds! Then he was quickly rushed away and weighed and examined. He was making sharp grunting noises which shows signs of fluid on the lungs. They examined him for a LONG time and finally at 9:00 pm ( I had the baby at 1:30) they came in my room...never a good sign... and told me they would need to lifeflight him to University of Utah Hospital to give him the breathing support he needed. Jon followed and I was luckily able to leave the hospital the next morning and have had a really quick recovery!



This is right before lifeflight took him. The nurse saw me balling and said "Mom needs to hold him before we take off." Thank goodness for her, tha was a good moment!

When he got there, they hooked him to a C-Pap machine which supports his lungs and gives them artificial air inflation. It was at such a high pressure that it tore little holes in the side of lungs. They call them Pnuemos. Hopefully the clear up on their own but if not then they need to insert tubes inside of his chest to extract the air getting into his stomach. We were blessed, they cleared up the next day but that added a couple days to his stay in the NICU.

The poor kid could not open his eyes for an entire week. They called him Bubba because he was the biggest baby in there and got the maddest at them for bugging him. That's my boy!

Sunday was the first day we could hold him. THE BEST DAY EVER! They also let me try to feed him that day to see how he'd do. He had been fed through a tube throughout the week so I guess it's very common for a baby to not want to nurse. Bridger once again came through a champ! He latched on and went to town, he must have wanted to come home!

This was our first good view of what our little bridger looks like! He is his own little boy, he doesn't look like Hunter or Hanna. We'll see!

My mom and dad came to visit the day before we came home!

I don't know if anybody beside Jon and I were as excited to hold our little Bridger as much as Hunter was. He must have asked about 15 times every day when we could bring home our little brother and give him a bath! It was the best reunion. Hanna is still warming up to holding him, I think she's a little nervous. She'll come around!

Bridger came home Yesterday, Wednesday August 5th! He came home with Oxygen and hopefully will only need it for a couple more days!

I love these facial expressions! Hunter "This is what I've been waiting for mom, what the heck took so long" Hanna- "Can I touch his hair, he's so handsome" and Me- "Be careful, Be Careful, Be Careful!"