Welcome to the Family J!!
Wow. Wow. Wow. Another Burns is born.
It has been an exhilarating and tiring day as I write this, so forgive the typos and lack of eloquence. Our first son, C, was born 22 months ago. I can remember that day vividly. I can still remember how excited I was when I saw him for the first time. I didn’t think it would be possible to feel that elated again. Boy, was I wrong…
J was born Saturday, March 20th 2004 at 3:42 PM. When I heard this 6lb 4oz wonder utter his first cry right after he was born, I felt it all over again. It was awesome. And when I got to hold him a few minutes later, it was enthralling. His wrinkled purply-pink face captured my eyes and I couldn’t stop staring at him. The wonder and beauty of a new life, of my son’s new life, was just as powerful with our second son as it was with the first. It is amazing - I have never had a conversation with this new little person, never hung out with him, never heard his thoughts and perspective - but I love him unconditionally and completely anyway. How cool is that?
Late Saturday J’s nurses sent him to the NICU for observation. As it turns out, J’s lungs are not quite as developed as they should be and they put him on an oxygen hood. They are going to watch him over night, and expect to keep him for the next week in the NICU, so we will not get to take him home in a few days as we expected. While that is obviously not what we wanted, we are just glad that we live in a time and country where this level of advanced medical care is available.
Although J was not due to arrive until April 15th, D has been having contractions for the last week that became much stronger over the last 72 hours. On Friday her doctor scheduled a C-Section for March 31st. However, the contractions increased enough in intensity through Saturday that he advised us to come on in today. We could not be happier with the care that the doctors and nurses are giving both D and J. We delivered our first son C at another hospital, and while their NICU took excellent care of C the three weeks he was there, they did a terrible job of managing D’s pain. D has a low pain threshold and a high medication threshold. Here I am thrilled with how well they are managing D’s pain and how they are caring for her.
You can see some pictures of the little rascal in our ALBUM here.
NOTE: Pictures missing until new gallery is up