Hunter Nicholas

Hunter Nicholas Holt is here! He was born on January 14th at 5:04 pm, EIGHT weeks early!! He weighed in at a wopping 3 pounds 6 ounces and 15 inches long. He is absolutley tiny and adorable. He looks like a little old man. Let me start from the beginning.... On the 13th, I went in to my normal appointment with my ob. Everything was fine, waited forever and saw her for like 5 minutes. (you know how that goes) No worries, no concerns. Later that day, I had a 10 week follow-up appointment with the perinatologist (because he has been measuring small). We did an ultrasound, everything looked great, just still small, but good. He hooked me up to the fetal monitor to make sure he was good and they checked my blood pressure then. Asked if I normally have high blood pressure, I said no, never. They checked 3 more times and all were high. Then they checked my urine and sure enough, protein in it. He told me he thought preeclampsia, said he would deliver me if I were further along and told me to go home and take it easy. The crazy thing is is that I hadn't been feeling good and even showed Nick the signs for preeclampsia about 2 weeks before. I had everything else but the big ones: high blood pressure and protein in my urine. I was really swollen allover though with REALLY bad headaches and sometimes blurry vision and just really worn out. I've been super busy though, so I just figured that that was it and this pregnancy was harder and different. I even told my dr. but nothing! I should have gone with my gut!! Anyways, he sent me for labs early the next day and I had to go back to his office to check blood pressure again and make a game plan. In my head, I just kept thinking bedrest and get the baby further along. I go to his office, he says labs are bad, blood pressure is really high and higher than last night and we are delivering the baby today. I immediately start bawling. (sad for him to deal with crazy hormonal pregnant lady!) So, I call Nick and my dad and cry the whole way home getting my bag. We go to the hospital and after being pricked 15 times in an hour (my veins kept blowing and moving, not fun!), we do an emergency c-section. I DO NOT recommend this to anyone. NOT FUN!!!!! With Reag, I was working in the yard 2 days later, this time, I swear if I got run over by a truck, I would have felt better! Plus, they were trying to get my blood pressure under control so I had to have different stuff done to me that made me out of it and loopy and kinda like a corpse! (you'll see in the pictures, I'm not lying). Anyways, so 5 days later, I go home and now tomorrow is 2 weeks and I'm still pooped by at least now I'm kinda bending! :) Hunter is in the NICU for awhile obviously, which sucks! There's no other way to put it. He goes back and forth most days between being on oxygen and not. He is also now feeding better, but it's still through a tube. At first he wasn't digesting it well and they would have to take it back out of his stomach, so they stopped feeding him and just did an IV. He's still on the IV, but also taking the breastmilk now, but still with a tube. He also had a heart valve that didn't close all the way, but is now so small, that they aren't too concerned. Pretty much everything that he is going through is pretty normal, from what they tell us. He is now 3 pounds 11 ounces thankfully. Thanks for everyone being so helpful and concerned and meals and gifts and phone calls, and visits. We trully feel loved and are so thankful for everyones support. Thanks for the prayers!! We know that it is only prayers and blessings that are getting us through this hard time. THANKS!!!!! I'll post some pics. All the pictures right when he was born are kinda scary with all the tubes and oxygen and just scary, so I'll post mostly recent ones.