Crystal - posted on 02/23/2010 ( 9 moms have responded )
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on Aug. 15th 2008 my son was born at 7;30 am. he weighed 8lbs and was 21 1/2 inches long. he was delivered by c-section and there was a vaccum used to help get him out. my mom noticed within a few hours of his birth his his arms shaking. the doctor said it was just normal newborn startle reflexs. so WE asked no more questions and just moved forward. the next morning caleb was a lil over 24 hours old, he had his newborn pictures taken at about 12:30pm then about 2 he had his first "episode" i was holding him talking to sum friends that had came to see him and was trying to get him to wake up so i could feed him his bottle. i decided to wait a few more mins and put him up on my shoulder to see if i could wake him. i got this feeling in my gut i brought him dwn to try and feed him and the more i looked at him the more it seemed he was turning a greyish blue color, i sat there for a min and my husband must have seen the look on my face he asked whAT was wrong i told him''Calebs not breathing hes turning blue and his eyes are rolled back in his head. just as my husband got up to take the baby. caleb went completely limp in my arms at that point i thought i had lost my baby i waited 9 months for. the nurses came rushing in and tried to say that he had to of just choked on sum formula but i tried to tell them that he hadnt drank any of his bottle. after about 3 mins of patting his back and them rubbing it the realized that he hadnt choked. they took him in the nursery to keep a closer eye on him and said they would only bring him out to me at feeding time and a nurse would come watch me feed him and sit to make sure that he didnt ''choke'' this time. well the next feeding time came and they still hadnt brought him to me so my husband went to go see what was going on and the nurse said the special care nursery dr was coming to talk to us. the dr came in and told us that caleb had had another ''eposide'' so they were gnna admit him to the nicu to run sum tests and keep a close eye on him. he had a bazillion tests ran on him, they at first thought he had a heart condition when that came back fine they went on to think that his respitory system was that of a premie. so they put him on caffine and he kept havin epsoides. so they did mris and ultrasounds of his brain to see if the suction vaccum had caused a hemrage which they said was neg. so they did a eeg and thank god he had a epsode during it and they found out that my son was having seizures and put him on phenobarbital. he is still on it and is 19mths
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