Brady's birthday

12.12  Brady Robert Cofer came into this world at 4:29pm.  He was 5.3 pounds, 17.25 in length.
I was at 155.6 when I had him yesterday.  I was 161 on 11.10 the day before I came into the hospital.

Brady went from the opertating room down to the NICU with Eric then after I was able to move my knees I met them in the NICU and got the update on Brady & got to visit with him for a little while then I had to go up to my room & get all checked out.
Today we started off with not the best news from the doctor.  Brady went from the c-pap last night that was helping him with constant air pressure to a ventilator early this am because he was working every hard to breath so that was a step back which was hard for us to see today.  He has done good today but we are waiting to see what the cardiologist says from the ex-rays they took today to see what was going on for him to be working so hard at beathing.

12.13 6:00pm just got word the ex-rays of the heart all looked normal.  The PDA is open which is to be expected at this point & things are flowing both ways which is not what you want so they will check it again in a few days if he doesn't improve on his own they will

NICU Visit

Saturday Eric and I took a tour of the NICU unit.  There is a reason they want you to see it in person before you show up with your child for the first time & I totally understand why.  I have read about what to expect for 34 weeks and seen pictures of the babies with all the tubes & wires in them but I knew when I saw it all in person I would get emotional.
The positive look at things is you see kids in there that were born younger weeks than Brady will be & they are doing ok.
I think now I am just ready to start the process of getting him healthy now that we have had time to digest all that has happened and what to expect in the next coming weeks. 
We are in count down mode - 6 more days & Brady will be coming! I am so excited and scared all at the same time.

3 Weeks down!

12.2 Great news! I have made it 3 weeks and we have only 10 more days to go till little baby cofer 2 will be born.
Excited and scared all at the same time. Having all this time to sit & think & read has been good but also gets me a little anxious to what things will be like once the baby is here.
We will be having the baby at 3:30 on 12.12 if he stays quiet up till that point so keeping my fingers crossed.
Staying very positive about the whole situation and just trying not to get myslef to stressed about the planning for the baby once he comes home and the care he will need.  I was so relaxed with Trey that I think I had a great experience and Trey was a very easy going baby & we had no issues - I want to be the same way this time with Brady so that hopefully he can feel the same energy from me & settle in very easy to everything & also be a very easy going baby.  I have a hard time when I can not plan ahead or control a situation so that is why I think it is a little harder for me this time because we will not know anything about what he will need until he arrives in this world and we see how he responds to the treatments he will need to see how quickly or slowly it takes for him to get to the healthly point for coming home and for future care.
Knowing how strong our family is, I think Brady will have no problem handling what he will need to be healthy and come home & grow to a healthy baby boy!

Great News

11.29 Today has been a great day.  Eric and Trey came by this morning after they went to the airport & brought me a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree!  I love it & it makes my room feel nice and warm!
After that I went for an ultrasound & great news - baby is perfect and weighing about 4.1 pounds right now & my fluid went from 2 on the day I came in to 7 today & the doctor said that was great!  I was soooo happy to hear that.
I am 32 weeks and 2 days so I am doing really good.  We are in the countdown mode now and it is so much easier to get through each day.
Thanks for all the calls and visitors that have helped my days go by so much faster along with the goodies and meals so that I don't get to burnt out of hospital food.

Thanksgiving day

Well it is turkey day and the good news is that the baby is still in my belly so that means the bad news is I need to be in the hospital instead of with my hubby and little pride and joy.
Good news is the Eric's father and his sister and her family are in town and at our house for the holiday and the long weekend so that will help Eric a lot with everything and Trey these next couple of days. It kills me to not be home with the family but at the same time I know my job is to be here in the hospital right now and keep relaxed to keep this baby in my belly for 16 more days. Isnt it funny how 16 days when everything is normal is like a blink of an eye but 16 days on bed rest in the hospital feels like it is forever. So I just take each week by week to make it easier to go by. Like right now I am so excited it is Thursday and thinking I will blink my eyes and it would be Sunday and that is 2 weeks down for me which is huge for the baby so I willbe so excited!
The family are on there way down with thanksgiving meal and dessert so I am so excited. I will write more again soon. So for now my little man in my tummy is doing great and so am I so let's hope it keeps up for another 2 weeks.
Happy Thanksgiving.

Things are Looking Up!

Yeah,  this is the best news we could have gotten today.  We got the notice this morning Monday 11/14 8:00am that we looked good so we were going to be heading up to the fourth floor with all the other ladies playing the waiting game with me.  So now longer would I be sitting in room 321 - here I come rm# 475.

Today has been a very quiet but busy day.  I just relaxed on my back as much as possible because they took all the monitoring off me and are changing it to every 8 hours - which is great news but also makes me nervous - it was calming hearing his heart beat all day knowing everything was fine & that I was not having any contractions because the machine said so & I didn't have to worry about what I was feeling or not feeling.  Even when I was having contractions I did not know so I either have a stronger pain tolerance or just don't even notices these small things so having the machine was a nice back up so that I didn't have to worry if I was feeling the wrong thing,
Now that the weekend was over I needed to get a hold of work & go over everything with my boss & HR & then call disability & figure everything out now & get the ball rolling for coverage at work & then anything I was working on that I was in the middle of.  Normally I am not worried about that stuff at all but I was finishing up a big inventory project & I had my teams reviews I was trying to complete this week so I had all this stuff done early - now I didn't have today to finish this stuff like I planned so it is getting everything shuffled around now so whoever can finish up & back me up on anything else so nothing is missed or dropped.
Along with getting disability & work all set -Kaya has been really sick for the past couple of weeks.  She is doing much better & we had figured out some medicine that was helping her but still didn't have an exact answer from the vet as to what she has & what we needed to do going forward or was this something that we just get all taken care of & she is back to normal.  Well Dr. Meyer called me last week & I was going to call her back on Thursday & got busy at work so I was going to call her Friday morning since I was hone with the day off with Trey & get all the details.  So with everything that has happened we finally got back on the phone today with the vet to get the scoop thinking we were now in the clear since she was acting like her old self - unfortuneately that is not how the call went.  Kaya has COPD - Cronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.  This will be something that she never outgrows & will continue to bother her going forward so it is something that we are always going to have to watch & keep her on medicine going forward.  Ok this is not our week I take it.
So not only baby 2 but now we have to worry about Kaya & read up on her situation so we know how to keep her as healthy as possible.  Call it overload!  Lets just keep our fingers crossed that I have several weeks to read up about these 2 while I sit here in the hospital.

Day 3 - 1st day off the Mag Sulfate

Today is Sunday morning 11/13 and we had another great night last night.  Everything stayed quiet and baby is looking great so things are going exactly how we want them to be - boring and nothing happening.
Today will be a big day for us to see if the body just stays nice & quite all day now that they have stopped the magnesium since 9 this morning.  Like they said before they only keep you on that for 2 days & then after that they let the body due what it needs to do incase infection is setting in they want the body to be able to go into labor rather if it is needing to rather than having the medicine holding it back from doing so - even though that would be the best case to be able to keep him in my tummy for another 4 to 5 weeks.

(Eric's Add) - Today was a great day.  Jodi was really relaxed all day and got some reading done.  As well I think she is starting to get the hang of this blogging thing.  Well, we're both laying in bed now ready to sleep.  This will be the first night off the Magnesium Sulfate to control the contractions so my fingers are crossed she doesn't start contractions.  Just a little while longer Baby Cofer, we're excited to see you but want you in there for a couple more weeks!

Eager Beaver!

Well, baby2 is very eager for some reason to come out & meet his new family and world.  Yesterday morning at 4:30 I woke up to the feeling I was peeing a little bit.  So I sat there and made sure I was not dreaming & then it happened again.  The first thing that came to me is maybe I was leaking a lot and maybe it was no big deal.  I know some of my friends that have been pregnant had that & said they would pee in their pants a little because they couldn't hold it but that hadn't happen to me at all with Trey or so far with this pregnancy so I just thought maybe that was something new that was starting for me with it getting so close to the end of things.  So I got up and went to the bathroom and it stopped so I was very excited.  Then as I got off the toilet things stated coming out again so right then is when I knew we had a situation on our hands.  Go figure Eric is out of town with work up in the bay area, I was home with Trey & picked him up early from school on Thursday 11.10 because he did n't feel great so it was 5:00am and that is when I sent the first text to Alice saying I have an emergency - can you come over......

Alice came right over to be at the house for Trey & I headed down to triage at Mary Birch.  Got their at 5:35 and then it all started.  I text Eric on the drive down to let him know what was happening.  They checked me to make sure it was my water/membranes that ruptured so they knew for sure then watched my contractions and the baby's heartbeat to see what was happening with him. The triage nurse was updating me on what was going to happen & then all I heard is "LETS HOPE THIS BABY DOESN'T WANT TO COME TODAY" That is when it hit me and the tears just started to run down my face. At that point is when she told me I would not be leaving the hospital & they would try everything to keep him in for the next day or two.  That is when I made the call to Eric & started to repeat the nurses words & could hear in his voice the shock or what I just heard. At that point I think we both   They moved me right up to Labor and delivery floor right after to get me set & get all the medicine they needed to get into me asap.  I got 2 antibiotics to avoid infection to me and the baby because that is the biggest risk when your membranes rupture early like this.  Then they have me on the magnesium to slow the contractions down.  I will be on that for the 48 hours then after that they take you off to let you body due what is is going to do after this point.  Because like I said before infection is the biggest worry so they want the body to set in motion what it needs to if that is happening inside & if they kept you on the magnesium that will fight against the body.  So hopefully baby 2 is realizing he doesn't need to see anything this soon so he can give me another 4 weeks - pretty please little man!

The last thing I got was the steriod shot and I got another after 24 hours.  You get only 2 of those & that is given to help mature the babies lungs fast because at 29 weeks and 5 days that are not developed enough so they can breath on their own so getting these 2 shots in is huge for baby 2.  Also, every day he can stay in is like 3 days saved down in the nicu.  So I hope you can hear me right now little Cofer - you need to give your self 30 more days in mommies tummy so that you can be as strong as possible before you come into this world!  You are going to need all the strength you can get little man & I know you can do it!