BIG SURPRISE!

The morning after the wedding, reception and stitches (august 22) I woke up only to realize that my water broke! It was actually kind of scary. It was exactly four weeks before I was due and I thought oh no this is too early! Anyway, Ryan Todd Massey entered this world at 8:50 p.m. and weighed 5 lbs 6 oz and was 19 inches long. At first he was doing pretty good. He just needed a little bit of oxygen, but then the next night at midnight I had my doctor and the neonatologist come and wake me up in my room to tell me that Ryan was really struggling and not looking good. I just sat and cried. The next morning they gave him some surfactant which was supposed to work immediately and it didn't. We were pretty scared. They were almost to lifelight him and then he finally was able to start keeping up his oxygen levels with the help of the cpap (which before wasn't working.). He was in respiratory distress and had preterm lung disease. He was such a fighter though! In order to give him the surfactant they had to tranquilize the poor guy. But after 8 days in the hospital we finally got to bring him home with some oxygen! Last week he was able to go entirely without any oxygen! And now he is doing absolutely fantastic! We love our little guy and Ashton and Reagan give him LOTS of hugs and kisses! He will be four weeks old Saturday September 19 (his actual due date!)! We feel so blessed for the technology and knowledge of the human body that we have and that we just got a neonatologist in this area a few months ago so that we didn't have to be lifelighted! Also, I am extremely blessed to have a wonderful husband who was constantly running around keeping up on everything during Ryan's first two weeks! He watched and played with the kids and would bring them to the nursery to look at Ryan, cleaned house, and basically played mommy and daddy for me! Thanks, I love you babe!