Introduction
(no name) ((no email))
10 Jun 96 9:08:08
Hello everyone, I've been following this list for a about a month now and
thought I should introduce my family and the little boy who is the reason why
I'm here.
Dylan was born on March 3/96, five days after my wife and I attended a Rod
Stewart concert (I still say Dylan misunderstood Rod when he was singing
"Tonights the night"). Deb's membranes had ruptured that night and she
discovered it when she went to the bathroom at 3am and noticed some blood. She
was very upset since we had had a big scare at 12 weeks with bleeding. She
called her doctor's office and he was on duty at the hospital so off we headed.
After they had established her membranes had ruptured we had to go for an
ultrasound. That was one of the longest waits we've ever had to endure but when
we saw Dylan's heart beating one pressure was lifted. Our next stop was the
delivery suite to wait for Mother Nature to do her work. Deb's OB was not in
favour of stopping the labour since she was at 31 weeks and would rather avoid
any additional stresses to all. Deb got here first dose of Celestone and we
waited. During that time we got a visit from the NICU nurse with their picture
book. Again we were shaken with the pictures of all the machines. We also got a
tour of the NICU which was eye opening, but in the long run helped prepare us.
After an uneventfull night and Deb's contractions stopped she was moved back to
the ward to wait.
After another four days of bed rest things started to pick up (during this time
Deb was on antibiotics and got her second dose of Celstone). On Saturday night
our 8 year old daughter and I had supper with Deb. She was having alot of back
pain and occassional contraction. I took Jessie home and made arrangements for
her and went back to the hospital. The fetal heartrate monitor worked fine, but
there were no contractions showing up. The nurses called the resident at 9pm
and he did an internal. She was 2cm which was her state 4 days ago. At
midnight the contractions moved to the front and the monitor lit up. They
called the resident back and he had the goofiest look on his face when he did
the internal and said "she's going to have a baby". The nurse and I put Deb on
the stretcher and moved her over to the delivery suite. The delivery team got
her fixed up, realized they had not done blood work in 5 days so that needed to
be done before the epidural could be given. The nurse did another internal and
asked "do you feel like pushing", to which Deb said "yes" she said "don't". At
that time the OB stepped into the room, gloved up and said push. Dylan's head
crowned, push again and the head was out and one more little push and he
squirted out and gave his first cry. That was what we needed to hear. We got to
see him about an hour latter and found out he weighed in at 3 lbs 8 ozs and
scored 9 9 on his APGAR :]
Dylan spent 29 days in the NICU and came home April 1 after a couple of false
starts. As of his last weigh in he is 9 lbs 8 ozs. He seems to be a light
sleeper, has inherited his night owl gene from his Grandfather and is the pride
and joy of his sister (she likes to show him off at every chance).
I'm looking forward to hearing from other people on the list about things like
sleeping through the night, developmental stages and other small and large
victories.
so till then, kindest regards
Robert, Debbie, Jessie and Dylan Pangborn
Ottawa