Tough Little Man

As the days rolled on during our hospital stay, the wonderful staff at Mt Sinai noticed one wee imperfection in our Little Man. He was breathing far too rapidly for his little body. By Thursday of our stay, he was breathing at a 100 breaths per minute!! Normal for a newborn is between 40-60! Esro was healthy otherwise - blood pressure, bowel movements, he was gaining weight... but no one knew what was up with his breathing!!

I tell ya, it's a pretty heartbreaking sight seeing your kid poked and prodded while he wails. They eventually decided that he would be put on some antibiotics in case he DID get an infection from the meconium. In order to do this, Esro had to have a constant companion for 48 hours - an IV. Heartbreak.

He pulled through. Super healthy. No infection. PLUS, despite all the stress, he managed to be discharged from the hospital having regained all of the weight he lost and then some!!

Weight at birth - 8lbs 13oz
Weight at discharge - 9lbs 1oz

Brave Little Guy

So peaceful...

Getting my meds

HOME TIME

Ohhh...May Long... So Very Long...

At this point, our little bean is officially a week post-date with an induction scheduled for the 27th. We had an ultrasound on the 21st that told us that Ezzie was in good shape but weighing 8.8lbs!!! Throughout this pregnancy, I've been pretty adamant about not wanting an epidural but that number was the deciding factor. Ouch.

I spent May 24 in a lot of discomfort. The plan was to walk, walk, walk to get the baby out. So walk, walk, walk we did... 6 hours of walking. I was having some pretty good contractions but nothing that felt newsworthy. Finally, at 9pm we went to the Labour Triage because we finally got some good movement going!!

Once we arrived at triage, they did an exam to see that in fact I was dilated but just a wee 3cm. The solution? Go for a 2 hour walk!! AAAAAARGH!! I guess it was a neat way to spend May 2-4... a stroll through Dundas Square to watch some breakdancers. Upon returning to triage, another exam yielded only an additional cm of dilation BUT the Dr also found some meconium!! Ezzie was so stressed out in his little home that he pooped :(

It was decided then, around midnight, that I would be admitted to see if labour could be spead along. 6 hours of Oxytocin later only yielded an additional cm of dilation. It was pretty much determined that Esro was too big and in too much distress that he was not going to come out the natural way. The meconium situation was scary because it could lead to respiratory issues (more on that later) and infections and other non-fun things. So, after about 16 hours of labour and drugs and consults the decision to perform a c-section was made.

At 1:52pm on May 25, 2010...

...Esteban Rogelio Brown was born to the beat of "Hey Mama" by the Black Eyed Peas. He came out at 8lbs 13oz, 21", covered in poop and received in love. Welcome to the world, Baby Boy Brown!!


The last photo without Esro


Listening to some music during the procedure



Here he is!!


"Here I am!!!"


Papa snipping me free!


First Family Portrait!!!

Come on out already!!! - 40 Weeks & 4 days

Okay, so this is a little later after the fact but I'm a big fan of continuity so we'll pretend that I haven't had the baby yet.