Xzavier

Well lets start off as I didn't know about his heart problem(which most moms sometimes don't), I was high risk my whole pregnancy because of thyroid problems. At 32 weeks I was admitted to the hospital because of high blood pressure, I ended up being released and put on bed rest till I had Xzavier. At 38 weeks and 5 days I went into labor at 10 o'clock at night, my fiancé drove us to lubbock and they admitted me since I was a scheduled c-section on Friday the 9th of March. They thought I was going to tie my tubes so said they'd take me back at 8am on the 8th, it was a misunderstanding about me getting my tubes tied so they pushed us back to 11am. At 11:15 they wheeled me into the OR and started prepping me, brought Ryan in at 11:30 and we had Xzavier at 11:54 am. As soon as they brought him to the table to clean him and weigh him, I noticed something was wrong. I instantly knew something was wrong, and I kept asking is he okay, and they kept saying he is fine he is perfect. So they took him to the nursery and I went to the recovery room. I was laying there waiting for them to bring him to me so I could try to latch him to the breast and do some bonding. My nurse got a call saying he was going to the NICU where he'd have to have a tube put down him to help him breath. I had no clue what was going on, so when I went back to my room and my family came in, I started asking what is going on and nobody wanted to say. Well Ryan (my fiancé) came into the room and sprung it on me, that he had to have surgery or he wouldn't make it. Well I started freaking out and my blood pressure shot way up. So when I finally got relaxed, my vassals could join back together to start clotting. So I ended up bleeding out, the nurses tried sand bags everything they could think of and it wouldn't stop. They called for more nurses and by time I knew it I had 10 nurses surrounding me at my bed, they called my dr and he came up. He looked at me and told me your going back to the OR, so he looked at the nurse's and said someone call OR and them to be ready stat that we are on our way. Scared to death at what was going on with me, I just kept thinking I'm going to die because I'm bleeding so much. Well it took about an hour to clean me up and etc. So when I came to I was crying for my daughter and they said I just kept asking for Xzavier. Finally at 1 am I got to go see my baby boy for the first time. I was an emotional wreck when I saw him. The next day at 8 am they took him back and did a 2 hour prep on him at 10 is when they started the actual surgery in all it lasted a total of 8 hours, it was the longest 8 hours of my life. When they was finished and sent him to recovery I got to go see him. They told us he wouldn't be going home for 3-4 weeks, I just started crying my eyes out. I went to PICU and loved on him and told him he was okay and he'd make it through this. That night he started opening his eyes to look at us. The next day they told us they was going to start taking him off some of the meds and decrease the oxygen. After 5 days of his heart surgery he was off of everything except the heart meds. At a week old he was released. He was home a week, and we got admitted again because he got staff in his womb. So they put a pick line in for his antibiotics and took him to the OR to clean it up. He was there another 10 days. I had to learn how to clean his womb and pack it. For a whole month at home I'd clean and pack it, and learn how to flush the line,until they took it out. But ever since then, he has been doing great, and I am so lucky he is alive. I am very blessed to have the Covenant Heart Doctors as the ones to do his surgery. The nurses and Doctors in PICU treated us as we was family. We love each and everyone of them. Xzavier is now 10 months old has two bottom teeth and his two top teeth are coming in,he is crawling, talking and pulling up on everything.

Thanks for reading/sharing my baby loves story.
Xzavier's Mommy ❤