Joshua Update

Our little boy is 4 days old today!

Lisa was discharged last night from the Hospital and is doing better and trying to recover, but she still cannot get out of bed by herself. We are also exhausted from eveything that has happened this week.

Joshua continues to be on CPAP, but only about 22-25% Oxygen. He is however having trouble digesting his food and is not pooping like he should. Last night they held his feedings for 12 hours and started them again this morning. He is continuing to get nutrition from an IV line. He has been under the bili-lights for the last couple of days as he is a bit jaundice. He also has periods where he forgets to breathe which causes his heart rate to drop, He is receiving caffeine and that has one a good job in minimizing those occurances.

While all of that is scary he is just doing the typical things for very premature babies. Lisa gets to hold him once a day for an hour. This is a very special hour for our family. We appreciate everyone's support and prayers during this hard time.

Joshua Pictures!

As promised here he is making in blog debut! The tubes and wires are kind of intimidating, but he really is doing great!

Here he seems unhappy with those prongs in his nose...don't blame him

Here you can see his little head of blond-ish hair!

Joshua Eric Bateman

Our little Joshua just could not wait any longer to come into this world. Joshua Eric Bateman was born yesterday, May 27 at about noon via an emergency C-Section. Joshua is here 10 weeks early, but is doing very well in the NICU. He was born 3 lbs 12 oz and 15 1/2 inches long.

at 11:15 yesterday they noticed his heart rate increase to a dangerous level 200+ because he appeared to be getting stressed. When it stayed this way for more than 20 minutes they had to go and get him.

Lisa is also doing well this morning, but is on a lot of pain meds. We will post a picture as soon as we can.

Hospitalized

Last Thursday morning Lisa was admitted again into the hospital after a night at home of bleeding. This time they have told her that they are going to keep her for the duration of the pregnancy. She is on strict bed rest, but gets to use the bathroom and take a shower (on good days)

The decision to keep her here turned out to be good because from then until now she has had two more big bleeds and increasingly severe contractions. Today it was necessary for them to give her two doses of terbutaline and right now she is being monitored around the clock to see if it gets any worse. If the contractions do no get better they will give her Magnesium sulfate in an IV.

It seems like our little guy is so excited to get into this world he is trying very hard to get here as soon as possible. The goal was to get him to 32 weeks (right now Lisa is one day away from 30 weeks). This goal, however, was made before today's events. Lisa seems to be in good spirits and we are confident and hopeful that he has a little more time to develop in there.