Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Baby Kayden is here!

On Tuesday August 4th, I went to the Doctor's office and my blood pressure was way too high. My doctor decided that it was best to induce me that afternoon. We started the fun process and 24 hours later baby Kayden was born!! He weighed 6 lbs 1 oz and was 17 in long. Kayden had the cord wrapped around his neck and we waited too long for the doctor to show up to catch him. He came out a little shocked so they took him away for some special attention. Since the nursery is under construction they are all crammed in a tiny room. There was another baby being delivered at the same time and they were all worried about stabilizing this 28 week old baby. This meant we weren't allowed to see Kayden for about 6 hours. It was no fun sitting there waiting to actually meet him. When we did get to see him he had been given an IV. After that he wasn't eating too well. When they took the IV out they were worried about him and gave him a feeding tube. We had to have an occupational therapist help him learn how to suck. After 4 days of him being at the hospital, a nurse finally thought it would be best to let him pull out his tube and see what he would do on his own. This was all he needed to get out of there. He did great on eating and the new pediatrician on call the next day decided he could finally come home. We are excited to finally have him home so we don't have to keep driving to Rexburg to see him.


Kayden after he had been taken to the nursery...
















Right before we got to give him his first bath



What a relief... bathtime is over



Dad had a little too much fun with his hair



After he pulled out his feeding tube



Finally he is ready to go home!!



He loved the car ride home in his car seat!







Trying to hold his bottle... how cute!!


Precious!

6 comments:

  1. Kaylee love...He is beautiful! Sorry to hear about that he had complications. He looks so happy and I love all of this hair! Congratulations!

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  2. What a sweetheart! He has so much hair! Cute!

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  3. oh he is soooo dang cute!!! He is the perfect mix of you and phil! I can't believe how much hair he has!!! I love it! I wish i was there to see him!!! Congrats you guys, he is soo adorable!

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  4. He is so cute! Congratulations to you both again! I don't blame Phil for having some fun with all that hair! Even though you are probably exhausted from not sleeping too much and want this phase to pass by. Take it all in. It goes by sooo fast!

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  5. Congrats Kaylee! He is so cute! I hope things are going great for you!

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  6. Oh Kaylee I know I'm slow. But Congratulations on your baby boy! He is handsome and so cute at the same time! i'm sorry to hear that it was so rough at the beginning! I bet you are glad that he is home and doing well now. Hope that you are doing well too!

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