July 7, 2008 7:30 a.m.

Now that we had the baby I am going to update on here frequently. That way everybody will be able to know what is going on at all times. Brandon Tyler Newman was born at 8:50 a.m. on Saturday, July 5th by emergency c-section. He was born at 26 weeks and 1 day. He weighed 1 pound, 14 ounces and was 13 inches long. It happened so quickly that I had to have a general so I was completely knocked out. I came into the hospital on Friday evening around 7:30 because I was bleeding. Dr. Rogers did an ultrasound and thought the blood could be coming from the girls placenta since it had to stay in after I delivered her because of the other baby. He told me that I was going to stay in the hospital since he wanted the baby's heartbeat monitored. He said there was a chance that I would need a c-section depending on if I started to bleed more, had stomach pain, or the baby was in stress. All night the heartrate would drop and then go back up. In the morning Dr. Rogers came in to talk to us and the heartrate dropped but was not going back up. Dr. Rogers said we had to get the baby out right away. The heartrate did go back up again finally but I guess he was afraid it would happen again. After the c-section when Dr. Rogers came to talk to us he said it was a good thing he did the c-section. The blood was coming from both placentas so there is a good chance that we could have lost Brandon if we had waited and also I could have needed an emergency hysterectomy. Thank goodness neither of those happened. So far Brandon is doing really well. He scored an 8 on the apgar which is great for a preemie. He has been breathing on his own since 1:15 on the day he was born. He is just on a CPAP which is like an apnea machine. He is a very active little boy. According to his day nurse he is too active because it is sometimes hard for the nurse to do things on him since he is moving around so much. Yesterday Brandon pulled out his temperature regulator 9 times! The nurse last night said that Brandon's vitals are good. They were giving him lipids through an IV when we were there. I called this morning to see how he was doing and she said he was doing great. They just had to put him into a new incubator because his temperature is still having some difficulty regulating. They seemed to think it could just be the incubator that he was in. I will update later after we hear from Brandon's doctor and see Brandon.