Fun with Mason

Welcome Home Baby Mason!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mason Scott Lopez
Born: March 31, 2010 at 9:24am
Weight: 7lbs 14 oz
Height: 19 1/4 in. long

We are so happy to have Mason home. Let me start out by saying how much of a blessing it is to have your entire family home and in one place. I guess I never thought about what would happen if that couldn't always be the case. All through my pregnancy with Mason was normal. I never had any problems, it was a normal healthy pregnancy. I went into labor on March 30th about 6:00 pm by 11:30pm that night we went to the hospital because the contractions (even though they weren't very painful) were coming every 4-6 minutes. I really didn't think it was the real thing but it turns out that it was and about 10 hours later Mason was born. I had a really easy delivery no complications.
Once Mason was out they cleaned him up and gave him to me. I held him for about 2 minutes and then they took him from me. Not knowing what was going on, I said, "What is wrong?" The nurse said that his body temperature wasn't warming up like it should. So they put him back under the hot lights. Andrew and Haylee came arrived at the hospital and came into the room just in time for the nurses to take Mason out. He apparently was having breathing problems as well. It all happened so fast and the next eleven days seem to all have ran together.
My mom was on her way up and I am so greatful because I would not have gotten through it without her. Mason ended up being in the NICU for the next 11 days of is life. The doctors thought he might have an infection so they started him on antibiotics and constantly monitoring his breathing. The doctors never found an actual diagnosis for why he was breathing so rapidly so they just monitored him for seven days straight and as long as he didn't have a breathing spell he could come home.
And so my journey started...I was breast feeding him so every 3 hours I was going to the hospital to feed him. When I was at the hospital it would take at least an hour to feed him beacuse he was so sleepy. He would fall to sleep when he was eating (which doesn't seem like a bad thing) but he had to have a certain number of ounces every 12 hours or the nurses would have to put a tube down him nose into his stomach to feed him. I hated this more than anything because he already had so many needles and iv'ies in his little body. The hardest thing I have ever had to do was to leave my baby in the hospital when I had to go home after my stay. But we made it through. He came home on April 11th and he has been doing great. He is such an angel and a true blessing to our family.
Thanks to everyone for your prayers on our behalf we really appreciate all the help we had during this hard time.