SMILES:):): 2010

Thursday, November 4, 2010

DENISE, BABY BRANDON AND JILL

Jillian talking to baby     Trying to feed baby
Brandon in Denise's        Brandon something
tummy..."Are you            that she cooked and
hungry, baby?"                 put in her pot:)

That very night, Denise went into labor and
was taken to Charlottesville, Va hospital to
try to stop labor. She was only 6mo. pregnant
and baby Brandon would most likely not
survive. She was in the University of Va.
hospital for 3 weeks when labor started again
and Brandon was born that night and was
a tiny 3 lbs. 5oz. Was in the NICU for 6 weeks.
He came home with wires and a heart monitor.
That first year was a difficult one for Denise and
the family. None of us wanted to babysit him
because he would stop breathing and his heart
monitor would sound the alarm and scare us
half to death. We had to jiggle him and he would
start breathing again. Denise didn't go away very
often, but when she did, it was GG who babysat.
I don't think she slept at all on the nights that she
had him...just stayed up all night to make sure he
was breathing. What a wonderful woman!

I will search for photos of baby Brandon when he
was a newborn and scan them onto here.