Important! Tyler James is here

Hi,

This is Cindie's mom Karen and I wanted to let you know that when she went to her appointment Thursday, they done the ultrasound and it showed that there was no fluid in the Amniotic sac so they decided to do the C-section andTyler James Hamilton was born on 8/14/08 at 4:44 pm he was 5'5 oz and 18 in long he was born at 34 wks. 5 days. He's currently in the NicU, his skin was ripped at birth, however he's already healing real well. He's been breathing room air since he was born, we are currently trying to get him to eat well and he finally took down 12 cc's tonight and we're hoping he'll get to come home within the next seven days, and mom's doing great, she's been up and walking around since the day after his birth.


God Bless,
Karen

[Linzola1]

I am so happy to hear all is well. I will keep her in my prayers

[babygirl32]

God bless , It's nice to know they are both fine

[diva_lorri]

How wonderful to hear! Congrats! xx

[hanacabana]

Congratulations! Please send all of our love to cindie and bub! I hope he gets to go home very soon.xoxo

[johannaviles]

God bless her and her new bundle of joy....Congratulations!  

[krissyy]

that is wonderful news!!!  it gave me goosebumps!!!!  the girls within a month of my due date are starting to pop the babies out--my time will be soon :-)  i'm so glad that tj and mommy are doing well and can hardly wait to see pictures!

[mog__x]

Congratulations and God Bless. I hope mum and bub are doing great and they get to go home soon x

[neasyc]

congrats and good luck

[kazwel]

Congrats!!  your little man is here!!!

[LauraB78]

Thank you so much for the update. I am glad to hear Cindie and TJ are doing pretty well! We will be patiently awaiting photos and wishing TJ and Mommy a speedy recovery so they can be home soon!

XO
Laura

[sweetangel7]

Wow...sounds like everyone is doing great.  So glad to hear about mom and TJ.  Keep us posted if anything comes up!  Give our hugs, love and prayers to Cindie (and TJ).

[Wendy80]

Congratulations to both mommy and baby!  We're all hoping for a speedy recovery so you can both enjoy each others company at home!  Best wishes!

[Cremzin]

congrats!!!!!!!

[pmperez]

Congrats and thanks for keeping us informed!

[kelliestarr]

Congrats :)

[depressed748]

congrats!!!!

[shadowserpent]

grats! i know how worried yet really super positive shes been and it sounds like it wasnt any worse and a little better than she expected! cant wait for more info and pics!

[jesslee83]

oh i know what you mean, she had sooo many things going "wrong"(well you know), yet she did her absolute best to keep truckin! and now she has her little man in her arms!!!

cnograts cindie, can't wait to see pics, and here's to a speedy recovery! *cheers*!!!

[richeygirl]

Congrats!!!

[feather2e]

Congratulations. Glad to hear you are both doing well.

[browneyedmama]

oh YAY!!  i was just thinking about her! im so happy things are going well!!  give the babe and new mom hugs from all of us!!

[adawning4]

CONGRATS!!!!!
Welcome to the World TJ!!!

[onlyme27]

Congrats on your newest edition!  I know that bursting with excitement.  Take care of the little one and keep up posted.

[msgorgeous]

YAY! congrats to you all im so glad to hear hes doin good :) i cant wait to see his beautiful face

[Michele, Katy, TX]

WooHooo!!!  Congrats and I can't wait to see pics!!!!  Tell Cindie we are praying for her and T.J.!!!!!!!!

[DaniWants1More]

That's wonderful news!!!  Bless them both. Thank you for the update :) best wishes to Cindie and TJ  ~d

[motherofan18month]

Finally he's here! CONGRATS CINDIE! enjoy your beautiful family!

[durhamjk1]

Yay! That's great news!  Congrats Cindie!  I hope you and TJ can come home soon!

[sha21]

Congrats and my prayers are with little TJ and family!!!! Yay!!!!

[mamaofonetrying42]

Congrats! Best wishes to the new mommy and family! Hope he will be home soon!!

[mami1323]

Congrats and looking forward to some pics.

[Riot_Queen]

OMG!
I was wondering why she hasn't responded to any of my messages on Myspace!

I'm SOO glad to hear that her and TJ are doing okay!
It's too bad he was born so early, but as long as he's progressing, that's all that matters.

Please tell her that Kaila says congrats and I send my love to the 3 of them.

<333

[FEOT]

Congrats...glad to hear that mommy & TJ are doing good.

[martikadragoon]

HI! First of all THANKS So much for the congrats and compliments. Pics should be put up tomorrow as long as I can get to a computer. I've gotta take the camera to walmart or walgreens and have them put to disk.

HERE is the total story/update: I'll post it in a new post as well:
Hey ladies, Sorry I haven’t been on in a few days. I have big news!!

UPDATE: Tyler James Hamilton was delivered Via Csection on Aug 14, at 4:44pm weighing 5lbs5oz At Loma Linda Hospital. I was 35w5d pregnant.  My doctors decided to deliver him after my normal appointment ultrasound showed Ogliohydramnios or NO or Little Fluid. He was also at that time diagnosed with a rather large VSD or hole in his heard. He also has a tiny ASD which they expect to close soon. The VSD will require surgery at 4-6 months of age as long as he’s strong enough and they’ll watch him closely for heart failure and things like that til then. Funny thing is I did get to experience real contractions. My U/S lasted ½ hr or so, and she pushed REAL hard on my stomach w/the wand.. By the time I was in L&D waiting til my surgery time (set as STAT Csection not really emergency) I begun contracting every 3-4min… boy did they hurt and I was happy to have my Spinal!

Upon delivery, the doctors and nurses had carefully greased up they’re gloves and his bedding in preparation for his fragile skin. He had some tears and rips where the skin had been abraded in utero and thru the birth itself. But most of the tearing came after birth during his first few hrs of life.
He was breathing room air w/the occasional blast of oxygen.  Originally they wrapped his wounds with nonstick pads and COBAN or the kind of bandage they use when you give blood.. It comes in pretty colors and sticks to itself. Well we realized it was tearing his skin and I came up w/the idea of using the bandaging they put on burn victims. It looks like netting, with the nonstick pad underneath and  aquafor on his skin.

As of today his skin is healed up and is beginning to peel some. He hasn’t been eating well and has been de stating due to not breathing regularly (he breathes quickly). They said it’s because of his heart and also the fact he’s a preemie. He is ABSOLUTELY Beautiful. He’s got the pretties dark blue eyes and cupid mouth. And he’s got big feet with long toes like his daddy! He is also a very peaceful baby and very quiet. He only cries if A) he’s in pain (that’s been done since his 2nd day when he began healing up well) B) he’s hungry or C) he’s wet or poopy.  Other than that he’s content to sleep. He’s not been eating well due to not having a good suck/swallow reflex. He’ll usually eat anywhere between 2-25cc’s of formula or breast milk. He eats a few one feeding and a bunch the next but they want him eating 30+cc’s at EVERY feeding.

They’ve got him on antibiotics IV for 7 days and have an umbilical catheter in so they can give him things like his IV nutrition and any meds. He will be in the hospital at least til Friday and will only come home if he has, NO infection. Can eat well, gains weight and has NO de stats.  

As for me I’m doing rather well, they’ve still got me on pain meds for my incision. They did a GREAT job on it, double layer stitching as well as stitches below the skin so no staples or outside stitching. (I think they applied a little glue too) I have been up walking around since 9am the day after my surgery, to the point the nurses made me lay down for a while cause I was up and about too much. I had been visiting the NICU between 4-6X a day for about 1-3hrs at a time.

I’ve been pumping since day 1. The hospital provided a Madela breast pump the good kind (yellow one not blue) and I used it while admitted. Tomorrow I go by WIC to pick up a WIC pump (as good as madela) My milk has just begun to come in today and I’m SORE. I had to begin massaging my breasts and applying heat packs before pumping and ice afterwards, but I’m now finally getting about 5cc’s from each breast at a time and it’s slowly increasing. My nipples wound up all torn up at first but have healed mostly.

The nurses and doctors  have all been wonderful to us so the other day I had DH (hubby) go buy a thing of homemade style cookies for both the NICU staff and Maternity staff. They really liked them.  Daddy is EXTREMELY happy to have his little boy here and both grandma’s are proud. Even tho dh’s mom wasn’t happy w/the pregnancy and whole thing at first (she never really liked me) as soon as she saw TJ and I offered to let her hold him she teared up (tho she claimed she wasn’t!)

Well, that’s about it. Tomorrow we’ll be staying at the Ronald McDonald house probably for the remainder of the week and maybe longer. If they have internet there I’ll be on updating everyone on his status!

Cindie