Grant's 70 days (10 weeks) in the nicu

Ok like I said before that first day he was on c-pap, June 18th they had to put him on the vent. Well again Sunday June 20 (which happen to be Fathers Day) they tried to place him back on the c-pap but not for very long. He was on the vent from June 20, 2010 till July 17, 2010 (the day he turned 1 month)! I remember seeing him for the first time, I thought he was so cute. Sierra and Nicholas came up to meet him on June 18, 2010 and they fell in love with him right away and thought he was the most beautiful baby they had ever seen even with all the wires and tubes. The first time I held him was 1 week after he was born ( I think) June 24, 2010. I was sooooo scared cause he had the vent in and when Grandma JoAnn (nurse) moved him I was afraid the vent would come out. I couldn't watch them get him out. He did have a pda (heart murmur) that supposedly closed with the help of medication. He had immature retinas but that resolved itself. He had to have like 8 blood transfusions while he was in the nicu. There was a couple times they thought they were going to have to call me with bad news but Thanks be to God they didn't. The Monday before he came home he had hernia surgery on both testicles. That was so hard seeing him being wheeled off. I did have great support there that day, my pastor, my hubby, my mom and my bff was there. When they wheeled him back up there he unfornately was still on the vent and they had to give him medicine to paralysis him because he was having problems breathing and thrashing around. It was so scary seeing him so still and seeing the vent breath for him again. But he bounced out of that and was still able to come home on Thursday August 26, 2010. That is also the day one of my best friends had her son in Bangledesh (hope I spelt it right). Love you Mahee and Abyan. August 26 is a good day for us both