On Friday morning Nicole woke with back pain and cramps, we called the midwife, and suspected it was early labor, although there was no coming and going of the pain, like you would expect from contractions. After giving it some time, and a few calls back and forth whith the midwife with updates, she decided that we should come in and see how things were progressing. We met the midwife at her office at 10:00am, at that time she did some fetal monitoring and got a very low heartrate, at which time she said we needed to go to the hospital right away (the hospital is attached to the office) When we got to Labor and Delivery, they confirmed the low heartrate and decided to do an emergency C-Section. At 10:46am Aiden was born. Due to placental seperation, his blood gasses were very low and he had no heartbeat, they were able to revive him very quickly, and he is now in the Infant Special Care Unit. They are still monitoring him and he is on a respirator. They have performed an MRI and will have the full results from that and other tests tomorrow morning. At this time there is not a lot that they are able to determine. Nicole is doing well. She is up and about and eating well.
We would like to express our apprecition to the entire staff of Labor and Delivery, as well as the Infant Special Care Unit and all of the Nursing staff at the women's hospital.
I will probably not update again, at least untill Nicole comes home (most likely tuesday.) Please keep Aiden in your thoughts and prayers in the upcoming weeks as he recovers from an exciting entry to the world and we see what the future holds for him. Thank you.