I hate saying that the first week of Tyt's life was terrible but
it truly was a rough one. Something was going wrong every time I turned around.
I couldn't leave his room for 20 minutes before a doctor would call and say
this was wrong and they would have to do this. I was so tired of hearing bad
new....Seriously emotionally, mentally, & physically exhausted. Pretty
sure I got about 5-10 total of sleep the ENTIRE week and no it wasn't good
sleep either:[
Saturday- The day he was born he stopped
breathing twice and they had to revive him. He was also really struggling
breathing so they had to put him on a Cpap machine to help his breathing
& lungs.
Monday- I was getting released from the U
on Monday morning. I had left Tytan late Sunday night and he wasn't doing
wonderful but he was stable. I woke up to a call Monday morning saying Tytan
was losing a lot of blood somewhere and would need a blood transfusion. They
thought he was bleeding on the brain:( no exactly what a mom wants to hear, so
I rushed the discharge up as fast as I could and headed to the U to sign
consent for my lil man to have his first blood transfusion at 2 days old:((
They did a million tests & scans and found out it wasn't his brain
bleeding. It was our antibodies fighting against each other causing him to lose
blood & it'd work itself out over time.
Tuesday- Another bad day... The routine
X-ray of his lungs showed that he had pneumonia so they started him on
antibiotics for that. If it didn't clear up by Thursday then he wouldn't be
able to into open heart surgery.
Wednesday- He had fought so hard trying to
breathe since he was born and he was finally starting to give up:( They felt
the best thing at this point was to intubate him which meant putting him on the
ventilator. It is a machine that basically breathes for you and keeps you
alive. This was extremely tough for me because my mindset was thinking it was
all over. :( I didn't know if he'd recover. It also was hard because it meant
no holding and I had never held my baby boy :( and they would have to sedate him
which meant he pretty much just laid there and couldn't even make a noise
because the ventilator tube went between his vocal cords:(( it was awful
watching him cry because you couldn't hear him but you could see it in his face
and his eyes would water... Worst thing ever!!
Thursday was a better day and Friday he
went in one of the most complex heart surgeries anyone can undergo, posts on
these soon!! For now.... Here are a few pics of the first week!!
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