This was the day Alan came into our world. The day started at midnight. Jenna woke up to her water breaking and shouted some expicatives. Got up and spent 4 hours watching Ghost Hunters while contractions began and then headed off to the hospital. A pretty uneventful birth process and our 5 pound; 9 1/2 ounce little buddy made his appearance around 1:30 pm.We spent a couple hours feeding and snuggling during his awake and alert time. Then we let him go off to the nursery for some of his initial care while Jenna slept off some epidural and Rob got some much needed food.
Here's what he looked like fresh out in the world.
And here he is all cozy bundled up!
As the afternoon progressed though Alan started showing some symptoms. His complex CHD (Congenital Heart Defect) was undiagnosed prenatally. It was finally decided that he would be transferred to Children's hospital that night. Very scary for all - Rob accompanied Alan in the ambulence and Jenna stayed behind to be discharged first thing in the morning. At Children's, Alan had a rough go of things the first night and ended up intubated. Cardiology spent a good amount of time that first night and the next day with the ECHO trying to diagnose him and come up with some treatment options.
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