Jack's second day of life

Both Jack and Cristy are doing well. Cristy is really sore and let her pain meds go a bit too long in between and suffered for it. I don't think she will do that again any time soon. Jack is doing well but is suffering from a mild case of jaundice. He is a little yellow but they have put him in the baby tanning bed and he is looking very good. Both he and Cristy should be coming home tomorrow.

There are a few other stories to tell since I have some time to put this down. As Cristy was coming out of surgery and was being moved into recovery, she began choking. I grabbed her hand as a look of panic set in and the nurses and others began trying to help. She's looking at me like "help me, I can't breathe" and then her eyes roll back and she passes out. I'm absolutely freaking out at this point in time and she comes too and gets the saliva that was choking her down. It scared the crap out of me and the nurses and Dr's in the room. I had images of trying to raise 3 boys by myself. It really scared me bad. All is well that ends well though and she is fine.

As you may remember, we actually conceived twins but one was an acardiac twin. Well, the dean of the school of pathology came to our room last night and asked us to donate the body of the acardiac twin to the school. Turns out that are they not only rare but this one was the biggest, and most complete, they had ever seen. It was pretty much a full sized baby up to the point of the top of the shoulders, where everything stopped. Imagine a Stephen king baby where there is a full body but no head. There were also no real organs but they hadn't done a full analysis until they had our permission. we did end up donating the body to the university for teaching purposes as long as we got a full pathology report. I may post that here if I feel like it.

Enjoy these new pictures, we sure did.

Jack Day 2

Introducing Jack Harland Cressler

Cristy gave birth to our newest addition on the morning of the 28th of Dec, 2007 to a completely healthy baby boy. The C section went well with her in and out in about an hour. Jack, who was nameless for much of the day, is doing great and beginning to eat well. the boys love him to death... both want to hold him all the time. at the time of this writing both Mom and teh baby are still at the hospital but should be coming home for New Years Eve. I've posted quite a few pics here

Jack cressler Birth

and more will follow