Whatcha talkin bout Willis?: Our Time in the Hospital

I won't be as detailed about our stay in the Hospital as I was with the birth, but I wanted to keep record of a few things.

Quinton was so alert after he was born! Looking all around and was so calm. The perfect baby. We were an awesome team figuring out feeding right at the beginning. Things were going absoluetly perfect. That night we decided to let them take him to the nursery since we had been up all night. After this, is when a lot of unfortunate events started to take place. They didn't bring Quinton back to me to feed him for over 5 hours. (which I thought was a long time but thought they knew what they were doing.) I couldn't get him to latch so the nurse told me she'd check his blood sugar and if he was ok we'd wait another hour and try again. Finally I woke up after 7 and I still hadnt fed Q since 11 the night before! I called the nursery asked to bring him back to me. They finally did after 9AM!!!!!!!!!! They had just started all of his morning tests and couldn't bring him to me until they were done. I was freaking out!!! Wellll long story short, we had a lot harder time getting him to latch on after that and was given a lot of formula.

Then we had a strict time limit to get him to pee since he hadn't yet. He waited until our last hour to finally relieve himself! Unfortunately, they still took him from us, but for Jaundice. He had to hang out on the blue lights and we got to snuggle and feed him for only 45 minutes then take him back to the lights every few hours. Well in the middle of the night during feeding time, we went and got Quinton and right as I got started, I noticed that Quinton wasn't breathing normal. We immediately called the nurses in. After some tests, sure enough, Q couldn't maintain his oxygen levels on his own. He was taken to the NICU that night. There we stayed for a week waiting for baby Q to get stronger and get weened off the oxygen. There were some horrible and scary moments in there, but his jaundice wasn't as bad and we finally got to snuggle and hold our baby!!! I snuggled him almost the whole first day in the NICU. Even if the nurses got mad and told me he doesn't get the good rest he needs when he's held. But let me tell you what! After a long night of bawling my eyes out, holding my baby was exactly what I needed.

A total of 10 days at the Hospital and we finally got to take him home!! I was TERRIFIED but soooo blessed to have my mom AND annette stay and help me. It was really weird not staring at his monitors the whole time we held him, but it was also refreshing. He was healthy and finally home for good!!!