Ethan's newborn pictures

Ethan Kent DeMille

Ethan was born on october 4th at 10:47 pm. About 2:30 that morning I started bleeding and so we went to labor and delivery. They monitored me for a couple of hours and finally the dr. came in and broke my water and said he didn't feeling comfortable sending me home with the bleeding. They think my placenta could have been abrupting. Anyways, Ethan is the cutest, sweetest little boy in the world and we couldn't love him more or feel more privileged to be his parents. Unfortunately, our little guy is still in the hospital. Delivery was a little rough for him and so he has been in the NICU. Coming home without our little guy was the hardest thing we've ever done. It has been so hard to watch him cry and be miserable and not be able to be able to even pick him up and hold him. I did however get to hold him on Wednesday for the first time. It was the most amazing feeling ever. I was visiting him and he was just crying and crying and nothing the nurses could do would make him feel better. It is the worst feeling as a mother to watch your baby cry and not be able to do anything to comfort him. Finally the nurse agreed to let me hold him for a few minutes and he just calmed right down. Now that his UA is out of his umbilicus, we can hold him as much as we'd like. He is doing a lot better and they moved him into the level 2 nursery last night. All his cultures came back negative and he will finish his antibiotics tomorrow night. He hasn't had a fever or unstable vital signs for days now. The main thing now is just getting him to eat. He has not been able to eat one thing since he was born. It is so sad because he just acts so hungry, even though he is getting IV fluids he doesn't have the satisfaction of eating. He had so much old blood and stuff in his stomach from delivery, so they have been taking things really slow with him eating. We are praying that we can start feeding him soon and so we can bring our baby boy home. This has been one of the biggest emotional roller coaster for us. We were so hopeful that Monday would be the day he could come home, but now that's not looking so good. Please pray for him and that we can bring him home soon!