raising hunter

I stayed home last night to get some needed rest while Jeremy took the "night shift" with Hunter. I had hoped for an uneventful night but Jeremy called me around 7:30am and told me Hunter gave him a couple scares early that morning. Jeremy woke up to Hunter's nurse yelling "I need help!" Words you don't want to hear while in the hospital, especially when it's your baby...Hunter was struggling breathing quite a bit, turns out the humidifier that is hooked up to his trach tube wasn't working properly, therefore not humidifying his new airway and causing mucus to build up. Normally just suctioning the airway would fix this but it took a little more suctioning and clean up of the area since the build up was more than normal. The nurses and Dr. determined it was a faulty humidifier part that caused it to stop working. They are not sure how long during the night the humidifier was not working properly. Needless to say, Jeremy was quite worried and thought I should come back to have a second pair of eyes watching little man. I hurried to the hospital, Hunter was fine and breathing normally at that point. I am pretty upset this happened with the faulty equipment, but I am thankful that it wasn't something with Hunter himself not breathing correctly.

Besides that little scare, the day has been quite uneventful. The main thing that has kept Jeremy and I busy is keeping Hunter from playing bumper cars with the rails of the crib. He gets up on all fours and since he doesn't have his balance mastered yet, he falls right into the railings and whatever else he feels like playing "crash test dummies" with! He does this ALL day! He is also teething, so he sucks/drools on anything he can get his hands on. It seemed like nothing would satisfy him, even his poor Sophie Giraffe teether (which he LOVES) wasn't working at this point. Hunter has never taken to a pacifier but Jeremy thought maybe let's try and see if he takes it. Now we had gone this long without him needing a pacifier and kind of liked that but at this point, we really needed him to calm down and rest so we thought okay let's try this. The nurse grabbed one for us and I put it in his mouth and he instantly calmed down, sucked away and drifted off to happy baby land dreams....zzzz zzzz zzzz. Nighty night sweet little boy...mommy and daddy love you....