Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Counting Our Many Blessings


We are very excited to anounce the birth of our beautiful baby boy Keedan Jacob. He was born at 11:20 p.m. on March 1st 2008.
Almost 24 hours after we brought Keedan home we found ourselves rushing to the ER of Texas Children's Hospital.

Keedan was admitted to the Newborn ICU where oodles of absolutely wonderful doctors & nurses cared for him for 10 days. Apparently Keedan had some type of infection. We may never know from what the infection stemmed but we do know that Keedan is much healthier & stronger now.

During this very difficult experience we have been greatly blessed.

1. We are so very grateful to our Heavenly Father for carrying us along during our darkest hours. The Lord truly does hear and answer prayers and comforts those that stand in need of comfort.

2. We are so very grateful to all of our friends & family who have fasted, prayed,brought us yummy food & much needed hygiene products!

3. We were able to stay at the hospital 24/7 for 9 out of 10 days. We stayed at the Ronald McDonald house on the 4th floor of the hospital. It is such a warm and inviting place for families to stay and try to relax....plus it's stocked with food & freshly backed tollhouse cookies every night.

4. Keedan had a private room (this was nice b/c it cut out the noise factor and allowed for more privacy) Most of the babies are just out in the open and it can get pretty noisy.

We are home now and adjusting to the newborn lifestyle, which is quite exhausting, demanding and wonderful! Stay tuned for more pictures.......

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

im so glad he is doing so much better now. i know it must of been hard. unsure if you got my email since you where up there. i found out im preggo .. woohoo.. im about 6 weeks now and 2 days I see the doc again on 4-2 to make sure everything is goinng ok.

Anonymous said...

keeden is a great name I love it!! he is a handsome baby

Erica said...

congratulations! i'm so happy for you and your new little family! the Church is true and our prayers are answered!

The Poll Family said...

Congrats again on your little bundle of joy! He is so precious! I'm glad he's home now and doing great! That's great you had the RMH to stay at so you could be close to Keedan while he was in the hospital!

Elder and Sister Dunn said...

Congratulations on a beautiful baby. I keep on telling Kenny that we need to come see you guys. I am sure I will be able to make it over there soon.