Mason Tyler Ellinger was born on Friday May 25, 2007 at 3:38pm. He was delivered via an emergency c-section. He weighed 5 pounds, 2 ounces when he was born. He has a lot of light colored hair (from his mom) and his dads big head and wide nose.
On Friday morning, the nurses came in for the normal twenty minute NST run to monitor for contractions and the babies hearbeat . During that run, Mason's hearbeat dipped low for a few minutes so the doctors decided to run the test for two more hours. Towards the end of the two hours his hearbeat dropped again.
At first the doctor said that if it happened a third time they would deliver his later that evening, however after reassessing the situation of the fetal surgeries, the lack of amniotic fluid, and Mason's CDH they decided to perform the c-section right away.
The c-section went pretty good for the first half of it. There were not any complications with the delivery. Once Mason was born they immediately took him into the procedure room. I got to get a quick look at him as they took him away, but Rosie was unable to see him because the curtain near her head was in the way. The second part of the c-section was for the doctors to find the two ballooons from the tracheal occlusion procedures done in San Francisco.
Unfortunately for Rosie, the spinal wore off during the second part of the c-section. She was in a lot of pain for the rest of the c-section and also for several hours afterwards until the doctors were able to get the pain under control.
Rosie spent a few days in the hospital and was officially discharged yesterday, although we were allowed to stay one additional night in a nesting room because Mason is in intensive care.
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