Tyler Ryan Erickson was born July 12 at 8:21 p.m. He weighed 2 lbs 1 oz. He is named after Uncle Ryan (my brother), who is celebrating his birthday today, July 13th. How cool that the nephew that was named after him was born the day before his birthday. We had hoped that he would have been able to "bake" a few more weeks, but that didn't happen. I felt fine all day on Sunday. I was able to take a shower and go to the bathroom by myself. I had lots of visitors. It was a great day until I got up to go to the bathroom right before all my visitors were leaving. I got up off the toilet and noticed about 7 inches of the umbilical cord hanging out. I yelled for Josh, who then went screaming out the room for the nurses. Within seconds the nurses had me on the bed shoving the umbilical cord back in and wheeling me down the hall (running!!) to the operating room for an emergency csection. I have never been so terrified. It seemed like it was taking forever and I knew every second that passed was a second closer to losing Tyler. They finally got me knocked out and it wasn't long after baby Tyler was born. When they pulled him out, he was unresponsive so they have him some chest compressions and within seconds he was back. It is SCARY how close we were to losing our lil guy.
He is in the NICU here at Home Hospital, and they estimate that he will continue to be here for another 2 - 3 months. He seems to be doing really well so far, but as the doctors have told us we have many rough days ahead of us. We just pray lil Tyler will be okay and able to make it home in the next 2 -3 months. We haven't been able to hold him. It is going to be a while before we are able to. I was able to touch him today. Such a wonderful feeling. I could just sit and stare at him all day long in the NICU. He is absolutely perfect.
I am soo proud of my wonderful husband who is really stepping up and taking care of me and the boys. He has done sooo much and he still has to work. I honestly couldn't ask for a better husband. I love him sooooooooooooo much!
I am hoping to get released on Wednesday or Thursday. I will plan to be down here most of the time during the day and then at night home with the boys. It is going to be hard to balance time with Jake, Brayden and then Tyler here in the NICU. It won't be easy, but we will get through it.
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Kayla, he's so precious! I couldn't help but get a little teary-eyed. I can't imagine how hard it is for you and Josh and especially Jake and Bubby! If you ever want to ride with me here, you are more than welcome! I know how expensive and boring it can be to drive here everyday!
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