Keaton Dixon Brown

Well I know I promised I would update everyone soon about Keaton's arrival, well its been a really long 2 weeks!! Keaton was born at 7:49 AM on March 25th. About 11 AM the head nurse from the nursey came into my room to tell me that they were going to mediflight Keaton to OU Childrens Hospital because he was requiring more oxygen than they were allowed to provide him. They were only able to give him 50% oxygen. Jeff and his dad rushed down to OKC that night to be with Keaton and make sure everything was ok. Jeff came back again on Friday and stayed all day. I was released from the hospital early on Saturday, I wasn't supposed to be released until Sunday or Monday, because of Keaton being in OKC they decided to be nice and gave me stipulations that I had to follow. :) I was going to wait until Monday to come to OKC that way I could spend some time with Kobe before I left but I called Childrens hospital when I got home to check on Keaton and see how he was doing, and the dr informed me that had put him on a ventilator. I freaked out and my mom and I made a flying trip to OKC.
When we got here there was a team of dr's and nurses around his bed working on him, the Nurse Practioner sat me down and started explaining everything to me. Everything she said to me was a fog! I didn't understand a thing of it. Over time I started to understand. Basically about 4am on that saturday he'd gotten really mad, and started to have a hard time oxygenating his own blood, they quickly realized that the blood in his body was going the wrong way. Which was foreign to me, but what it means is when babies are in the womb their blood goes from the heart to the stomach, it bypasses the lungs. Because I oxygenated his blood for him. Well since he wasn't inside anymore it made him VERY VERY sick. so they put him on the ventilator and he did ok. They had to heavily sedate him so he wouldn't pull stuff out and that way he could rest as well.
On Tuesday they had to put him on whats called Inhaled Nitrious Oxide or INO as they called it, and that helped him relax even more so that the spot in his heart where the blood went the opposite way could close up. On this past sunday he came off the INO and Tuesday Morning he came off the oxygen. On Monday Night he started to eat from a bottle! He has to eat atleast 2 oz of milk and maintain his weight before we can go home. He is at 55 cc's of milk and has eat 60 consistantly. So we are almost there. Hopefully we'll be going home by early next week. The dr said yesterday she didn't see us here for more than another week! So please continue praying that we come home soon! :)

Keaton Dixon

Well we had a doctor's appointment early this morning and everything looks good. Our doctor does an ultrasound every visit just to watch growth and such, well he measured the head and yup its where its always been, big, which is a Moore Family Trait so no big deal. He measures the belly and says hmm this is a big kid, so he measures his belly again and yup still going to be big. He sounds shocked which I just laughed at him about cause he knew he was going to be big. So he goes back to measure the head again and hmm yup definately going to be a big guy. At this point I'm like just stop lol. So he measures the legs to get a full measurement and he ultrasound machine is guessing his weight to be 8lbs 8oz. YIKES! But that could be wrong cause as you get closer to your due date the less accurate those can be. SO! He asks me what I'm doing tomorrow and I looked at him smiled and said, "Having a baby?" He laughed at me and said YUP!! So we are scheduled to go in for a repeat c-section at 7:30 AM that is if an emergency c-section doesn't bump us. We have to be there at 5:30 AM to get me prepped and everything. I will post stories and pictures after I return home. Please say a prayer for us tonight and tomorrow that everything works out ok and baby is healthy. Everyone have a wonderful rest of the week and a even better weeekend!!

March 30th

Saw the Dr again yesterday for my 36 week appointment. I know last week's appointment there was some concern from him whether the baby was getting too big and this week he did another ultrasound and he's weighting approximately 6 lbs 11 oz which he said is ok. Had he gone over 7 lbs we would be taking him this week. But the Dr is going to allow me to go until the 30th which is exactly 2 weeks early. I'm so relieved. I was stressin hardcore about taking the baby an extra week early. I'm sad cause now I have to wait another week but thats ok cause thats what Keaton needs. Everyone have a great weekend and I'll update more as I know more :)

My Children

I was asked the other day how I came up with the names we have chosen for our children. Well its simple my dear Watson :) lol

First I'll share a small story. When Jeff and I were dating and had decided we were going to spend the rest of our lives together, I started thinking about our future children. Well Jeff name is Jeff David Brown III and I'm Lindsey Denise Brown. We have the same middle initial. So at that point I new our children would also have a D middle name just to keep the trend going. Then looking at it we are J..-...L we needed a K so back then I decided our first child would be a K and second child would be an M so we would be J,K,L,M haha I know I'm weird like that. Jeff had decided he didn't want to continue the family name because technically it stopped with him. thats a whole nother story. Basically he's Jeff David but his dad is Jeff Davis don't I'm not sure how that happened. So that brings us to our first child:

KOBE DILLION BROWN
4-26-06
When we got pregnant with Kobe I immediately started looking in my baby name book at names to name our child. We chose a boy's name and a girl's name because we didn't know what we were having yet. As I was flipping through the K's naming off names I liked, Jeff didn't like any of them. Finally I got to Kobe and he went hmm yeah maybe, so I wrote it down and I tell you that was the ONLY name he and I could agree on. There isn't any meaning behind his name at all, just that we both like it. I liked Dillion which is conventionally spelled Dillon. I know this because the birth certificate lady at the hospital called my room a few days after he was born to inform me that we had spelled his name wrong. Oh boy she better be glad Jeff answered the phone cause I was HOT! lol So this brings us to our second and last child:

KEATON DIXON BROWN
birthday unknown yet :)

With baby #2 I started looking through the baby name book again to find a first name. I had already decided back when I was in my first trimester, at my great uncle's funeral, that I would make the baby's middle name Dixon. This is a family name sort of. My grandmother's maiden name is Dixon. She was a HUGE inspiration to and is my guiding light. I also have a cousin named Michael Dixon and Michael was the only name I liked in the M's so I definitely could not name him exactly after my cousin. :) I'm sure he would have loved it though. So I was flipping through the K's and just fell in LOVE with Keaton again there's no meaning behind it, its just Keaton but the Dixon is a huge part of my life! and I'm proud to carry on that name for my family.

So that is where my children received their names, nothing special but are everything to me :)

Baby Brown

I went to see the dr yesterday for another check-up on the baby. Everything is looking good, we do an ultrasound every visit to check on the baby's weight gain and to make sure he's growing properly. The dr informed me that he is weighting 6 lbs 2 oz you think thats great right? Well not so much :) haha. The reason its not so good is because 2 weeks ago he only weights 4 lbs 9 oz and so that means he gained a whopping 1 1/2 pounds in 2 weeks time. Usually at this point they are only gaining about 1/2 a pound a week. So the dr is now concerned that we have 3 weeks left and the baby will get too big. He says anything over 8lbs makes it hard to deliver. I will be having a repeat c-section. So more than likely we will be delivery baby brown about a week and half early possibly. We go back again on the 17th for another check up and to check his weight and if he's over 7 lbs 5 oz he will be taking him within the week. So please keep baby brown in your prayers that everything will work out ok and that he won't have any breathing issues as his brother did. I will keep everyone updated as I know more next week. As for now I'm trying to finish up with sanitizing bottles and packing bags for everyone. I wish I had my nesting energy that I had last week do all this. I'm just not motivated AT ALL! Thanks again!

33 weeks pregnant

Well as of Tuesday I am 33 weeks pregnant. I'm to the point I'm starting to get uncomfortable. :) lol but everything seems to still be going good. Went to the dr on Monday and the baby is weighting about 4 lbs 9 oz. My guess and calculations he'll weight about 7lbs 2oz when born. I'm actually thinking a bit more because he is tending to have a bit large head, family trait fabulous! My blood pressure is starting to rise a little now. I tested it Thursday the 18th and it was 128/80 when I went into the dr on Monday it was 140/82 so its slowing climbing up. The dr told me he's going to look at it as its holding steady lol. Well I hope to holds steady for another 4 weeks.

Kobe is doing good. His newest thing lately is "where'd you get that" anytime he talks about anything he found. He'll bring a toy in and ask where we got that for him at lol. He's funny. He finally is understanding about Keaton and that there's a baby in my belly. He's understood that for a while now but now I'm trying to get him to understand that Keaton will eventually come home to live with us. That I will go to the dr and he'll take Keaton out of my belly. He's not getting that part yet. lol He's so funny he likes to talk to my belly and he'll ask me if Keaton is sleeping or awake, if I say he asleep he'll come up to my belly with his hands at his mouth to magnify his voice and yell into my belly, "WAKE UP KEATON" lol I just laugh. So anyway that's whats going on this week at the Brown Household. Ready to have this little guy but we'll wait as long as we have to. Everyone have a great weekend!

Well as of today I am 31 weeks pregnant and only have 7 weeks until we are to go in for a scheduled c-section. I went into the dr on Jan 22nd and he was concerned about some contractions I'd been having so we decided we are now coming in every 2 weeks to keep check on things. In that appointment we decided that the baby's birthday is going to be March 30th. I went back on Feb 5th for another check up. Everything is looking great. Baby is growing good, approximate weight right now is about 3lbs 10oz. When the dr was doing the ultrasound I asked, just jokingly, to look and see if it still a boy because of what happened with Kobe. (went 37 weeks thinking he was girl to find out on week 37 she was a he!) He looked and was like well I think thats a scrotum and then we was like well....i don' t know. Never saw anything that said definately one way or the other. YIKES oh well it will all be ok! I told him I guess I'll go buy one pink outfit just in case and he said tell ya what I'll buy you a pink outfit lol. I go back on Feb 22nd so I'll have him look again then :)
Last week it snowed A LOT up here. We got about 10 inches of snow, they were talking about quite a bit of ice and we weren't sure if we were going to get hit by the ice or not so I decideded to go ride out the storm at my parents house since they have a fireplace if they did lose power. We only got snow which is ok, Kobe got to go sledding with his Nana and he had such a good time! But thats whats been going on in our neck of the woods lately. Hope everyone has a great week!

Kobe and Nana sledding