Thursday, March 13, 2014

Bradley William Green - My Little Tough Guy

am soooo happy! We finally got moved into our house the day after Valentines Day :) We were just loving having our own place and it feels so good to have a home - no more apartments.  We really really appreciate all the help from family that made it possible. It was more work than we were anticipating to get it ready but I'm so happy with the finalish product. I say finalish because there's still a lot to do like paint doors and get them on, install blinds, etc etc but that'll come with time :)

Some before pics:


Some afterish pics:


Of course now it's full of our stuff and pretty soon it will have our sweet baby Bradley in it too :)

Bradley was born March 4, 2014 at 3 pounds, 13 ounces and 17 inches.  We had to be induced early because I had severe IUGR inner uterine growth restriction. The Dr explained it as my placenta pooping out. Bradley was no longer receiving enough nutrition from my placenta and was measuring about 5 weeks behind. After finding out we could no longer birth at the birthing center I had set up consultations with three different doctors over the next week. After meeting with the first one Monday he sent us home to pack our bags and directed us to come back that night for an induction. Our labor was different than we had planned but went really well and I was very happy with how it went. 

Since then our sweet little guy has been in the NICU. He has been so tough and strong. Way tougher than his mom. He's had to have multiple IV's including one in his head :(. I cry way more than he does when he has procedures done to him. In fact, he usually doesn't make a peep. 


He's also had to wear a mask while under intense lights. I like to call it his spa time and he sure looked like he was just lounging at the beach :)


He is so stinking cute!! He's got really long legs, arms, toes, and fingers so I think he's going to be tall like his daddy. He's also got really blonde hair and big dark eyes :)


He wears an oxygen monitor on his foot and three probes on his chest for his heart rate and then has a tube going down his nose into his stomache for feedings but all other stuff has been removed :). He's doing awesome and the only thing we're working on is eating everything orally and he's doing really well so we're just about ready to take him home. We can't wait!!

We love him so much and his daddy's been so great :)


I'm living the dream!! :)











 






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